Posted on 01/23/2016 5:18:22 PM PST by VitacoreVision
After Hillary Clinton spoke at a town hall in Manchester, New Hampshire, on Friday, I asked her if she would release the transcripts of her paid speeches to Goldman Sachs. She laughed and turned away.
Clinton has recently been on the defensive about the speaking fees she and her husband have collected. Those fees total over $125 million since 2001.
Her rival Democratic presidential candidate, Bernie Sanders, has raised concerns in particular over the $675,000 she made from Goldman Sachs, an investment bank that has regularly used its influence with government officials to win favorable policies.
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During one of her paid speeches to Goldman Sachs, Clinton reportedly reassured the crowd and told them that banker-bashing was unproductive and foolish, according to a Politico report based on accounts offered by several attendees.
On Friday, Clinton was asked by New Hampshire Public Radio how the "average person should view the hefty speaking fees?"
"I spoke to a wide array of groups who wanted to hear what I thought about the world coming off of my time as secretary of state," Clinton said, defending her decision to make money from speaking fees. "I happen to think we need more conversation about what's going on in the world."
"I think groups that want to talk and ask questions and hear about that are actually trying to educate themselves because we're living in a really complicated world."
When asked by the Des Moines Register on Thursday if she regretted her decision to make money from speaking to various interest groups, Clinton compared herself to President Barack Obama, noting that significant campaign donations from Wall Street did not stop him from passing the Dodd-Frank reform law.
But the Obama administration did in fact go easy on Wall Street by refusing to criminally prosecute the major financial institutions responsible for the 2008 economic crisis. And Dodd-Frank, many critics say, does not go far enough in preventing systemic risk.
What's more, though Obama fundraised for his presidential campaigns from Wall Street, he never enriched himself personally as the Clintons have done.
Obama's ethics disclosures show that he made the vast majority of his income from royalties and advance money for his two books, Dreams From My Father and The Audacity of Hope.
The arrogant WITCH.
Bill and Hillary Clinton are the penicillin-resistant syphilis of our political system.
Someday it would be wonderful to see the headline following her trial, conviction, and sentencing:
"Hillary Clinton Laughs When Asked if She Has Any Last Words Before Her Sentence Is Carried Out"
Just a few Clinton defenses...
1. Its just another thing to throw against the wall to see if it sticks.
2. I dont recall.
3. At this point, what does it matter?
4. We didnt do anything wrong
5. We didnt know we were doing anything wrong
6. You cant prove we knew we were doing anything wrong.
7. Theres no evidence of any wrongdoing.
8. Thats old news. It’s all been gone over in the last few weeks/ months/ years.
9. I would never do that.
10. Everybody does that.
11. Ah hah hah hahahahaha
So true, and I suspect forever beloved by the American people.
Her crazy, inappropriate laughter is symptomatic of something really seriously WRONG.
Cankles Cackles.
The Jokerette. Always laughing. She gives me the creeps.
Wow! She’s really in the big money these days. It wasn’t that long ago that she was deducting 50 cents per pair on her tax return for donating Bill’s old underwear to charity.
And then a couple years later she made a $100,000 gain on a single trade on the cattle the futures market, a miraculous feat as she claims she learned how to trade simply by reading the Wall Street Journal.
Hillary is a financial genius.
Maybe some. Most will have a momentary blank look while it goes in one ear and out the other, then carry on with what they were doing/saying.
She’s like that guy on the BK commercial who laughs when confronted with the chicken piece offer...except he is more likable than her.
Her daughter may be even more of a genius by getting NBC to pay the recent college graduate over $600,000 a year according to a recent post.
That’s real brilliance
It would be quite humorous if the Clintons had to drain the millions in their Global Initative scam to pay for a POTUS pardon from Obama a year from now.
I think it would be interesting to check out where Hillary was when the speeches she supposedly gave happen. I would be interested to find out.....She has round the clock Secret service protection so she has constantly monitoring. I would not be surprised if some of the secret service logs show her in different states at the time she was suppose to be earning her fees.
Agreed. If elected president, I wonder if she would not lose it completely. If she is indicted as she should be, which I doubt seriously will happen, wonder how well she would handle it.
Hillary can’t get 300 people to come hear her TALK - when it’s FREE.
But Goldman Sachs pays her $675,000 for a 45 minute ‘speech’?
Let’s call it what it was - an upscale bribe.
Bernie Sanders has Hillary's number... and it's Yuuuuuge...
If she were to be elected, I think you'd soon see less laughter, and more steely eyed cruelty. She would still give me the creeps, though.
There actually is a medical term for it. Pseudobulbar Affect, which can be a symptom of either OCD or Tourettes Syndrome.
Or, maybe, she’s just crazy and evil!
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