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Transcripts of Clinton's Wall Street Talks Released in New Wikileaks Dump (reuters.com)

Posted by msmash on from the shaking-things-up dept.

Emily Stephenson and Luciana Lopez, reporting for Reuters: U.S. Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton's full remarks to several Wall Street audiences appeared to become public on Saturday when the controversial transparency group Wikileaks dumped its latest batch of hacked emails. The documents showed comments by Clinton during question-and-answer sessions with Goldman Sachs Chief Executive Lloyd Blankfein and Tim O'Neill, the bank's head of investment management, at three separate events in 2013 in Arizona, New York and South Carolina. Some excerpts of Clinton's speeches had already been released. For more than a week, Wikileaks has published in stages what it says are hacked emails from the account of John Podesta, Clinton's campaign chairman. Clinton came under fire for months for not releasing full details of her paid speeches to big business audiences, as opponents accused her of a cozy relationship with bankers and other members of the U.S. financial system.

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  1. Too Late by amiga3D · · Score: 5, Insightful

    The should have released this stuff when she was running against Bernie. This isn't going to change any minds now. Everyone knows now what she is and they're voting for her because of Trump or voting for Trump because of her. The stage was set weeks ago and the only thing that would change it now is absolute proof she killed someone. That's probably worth 5 or 6 points in the polls.

    1. Re:Too Late by Black+Parrot · · Score: 5, Insightful

      The should have released this stuff when she was running against Bernie.

      Everybody knew (and still knows) she's in bed with Wall Street. That was probably the main issue that let Bernie get to the populist/left side of her.

      She changed her tune to neutralize that advantage, but no one seriously believes she's going to get tough on Wall Street.

      This is more non-scandal in search of a headline. But everyone should have forseen that as soon as they saw "Wikileaks".

      --
      Sheesh, evil *and* a jerk. -- Jade
    2. Re: Too Late by Zontar+The+Mindless · · Score: 5, Insightful

      But honestly who cares?

      I certainly don't care if Frump is a dog to women in his personal life...

      Your mom.

      Your sister.

      Your girlf--oh, silly me.

      --
      Il n'y a pas de Planet B.
    3. Re:Too Late by tburkhol · · Score: 5, Interesting

      So, when he said "they let you do it" there's actually no "they let you" in that sentence?

      The quote is "When you're a star, they let you." Like you "let" your boss call you an idiot. "When you're a star," you can use your fame and money to abuse people, because they know they can't fight back. "When you're a star," people will let you do things that they would never consent to.

  2. Why is nobody mentioning the content by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

    It's strange that the news is almost entirely about the release of the remarks and, at least in linked article, no mention of what those remarks are. Could it be that the remarks aren't actually interesting or even newsworthy?

  3. Groping by MillionthMonkey · · Score: 5, Funny

    I'm actually wondering at this point, is he deliberately trying to cause election day violence?

    Nah- what's happening here is that he knows he's going to lose, and he's desperately groping for excuses.

  4. Just not news because it's just nothing new by XXongo · · Score: 5, Insightful

    If you already hate Hillary: all that's there is "look! More emails proving that Hillary is exactly like what we've been saying she's exactly like for the last twenty years!

    If you don't already hate Hillary, all that's there is "look! More emails that really don't say anything new."

    Either way, it's just not news.