Posted on 01/27/2016 10:27:43 PM PST by Cincinatus' Wife
Democratic presidential frontrunner Hillary Clinton said in an interview aired Wednesday night that special interest groups cannot buy her to gain access and influence as she continues to face scrutiny for taking large sums of money in speaking fees from the financial industry in recent years.
Speaking over the phone with MSNBC's Chris Matthews, Clinton was asked how she will respond to impending attack ads from her main primary challenger, Sen. Bernie Sanders (I, Vt.), who is expected to target her ties to Wall Street.
"As anybody who knows me knows, you can't buy me," Clinton said in response, defending her commitment to regulate financial firms and weaken Wall Street's influence.
"I've been standing up and fighting and getting knocked around for years trying to get things done that I think would improve peoples' lives, and I'm not going to stop," Clinton added. "And that includes anybody trying to, you know, mess with our financial system."
Clinton described Sanders’ attacks as "disappointing" and a "low blow," saying the Senator from Vermont is becoming "increasingly personal with his attacks" and breaking his pledge to not conduct a negative campaign.
The Democratic frontrunner has come under fire in recent weeks for having connections to Wall Street and receiving significant amounts of money from the financial industry during a primary that has largely focused on targeting Wall Street firms to address income inequality.
A New York Times report from last week detailed how Bill and Hillary Clinton have taken in more than $125,000,000 in speaking fees since they left the White House, much of which came from Wall Street-linked financial firms.
Just under a quarter of the money has come in the last two years.
Nicholas Confessore, one of the authors of the article, told MSNBC last week that the amount of money the former first couple has amassed from speaking engagements is "almost obscene."
Clinton made on average about $250,000 per speech, including $675,000 from Wall Street giant Goldman Sachs for three speeches.
Sanders, a self-declared socialist, has attacked Clinton for being too close to Wall Street and being aligned with corporate interests. He has promised to break up America's largest banks and restore the Glass-Steagall barrier between investment and commercial banking.
Sanders has called the American economy a rigged system that only benefits the wealthy while oppressing working and middle class Americans.
Clinton has made similar comments on the campaign trail and said she will do more to mitigate the power of Wall Street and the broader financial industry through stricter regulation, but Sanders has called her hypocritical because of the money she has taken from Wall Street.
Sanders is planning a new blitz of attack ads targeting Clinton in the final days before the Iowa caucuses are held on Feb. 1. Recent polls show Clinton and Sanders are neck-and-neck in Iowa, while Sanders holds a large lead in New Hampshire, the next state to vote in the primary.
Liberal group claims all of Hillary Clinton’s speaking fees went to charity
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“No one from the Occupy Democrats group responded to our request for comment, but we believe its claim is based on 2014 comments by Clinton. When students at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, asked that Clinton return her $225,000 speaking fee, Clinton noted that “all of the fees have been donated to the Clinton Foundation for it to continue its life-changing and life-saving work.”
“So it goes from a foundation at a university to another foundation,” Clinton told ABC News, with regard to the UNLV speech.
The UNLV donation is documented on the Clinton Foundation website. It includes this list of “speeches by President, Secretary, and Chelsea Clinton (that) have helped support the implementation of the Clinton Foundation’s work around the world.” The speaking fee from the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, for instance, is listed as a donation from the UNLV Foundation.
So are other speeches at universities and colleges as well as a few speeches organized by private groups such as Citibank, Chicago House and Goldman Sachs.
But that’s not all of the speeches for which Clinton has been paid.
In May, the New York Times published Clinton’s 2015 financial disclosure form. Covering a period from January 2014 to March 2015, Clinton lists a total of 51 speech fees that have been added to her personal account from a variety of companies. Not including her husband’s fees which also appear on the same disclosure, Clinton’s speech fees end up totaling more than $11 million.
Spokesmen for the Clinton Foundation and Clinton’s presidential campaign declined comment.
Our ruling
Occupy Democrats claimed Clinton “has donated every cent she’s ever earned from speaking fees to charity.”
That’s a misreading of Clinton’s comments in 2014, when she said speaking fees at colleges and universities were donated to the Clinton Foundation.
Clinton’s financial disclosure form includes 51 speeches in which Clinton was compensated directly.
This claim rates False.”
No, you can only RENT Hillary Clinton, and only for a much shorter time than you had bargained for.
May 2015: “.....After she left her post, Hillary Clinton’s huge speaking fees at times attracted criticism. In particular, she charged as much as $300,000 to speak at public universities, though she generally donated the funds to Bill, Hillary and Chelsea Clinton Foundation. Those engagements are not reflected among the new disclosures, since they did not provide Clinton with personal income.
Her earnings drew immediate rebuke from Republican National Committee Chairman Reince Priebus, who termed the haul “staggering” and said it showed how “out-of-touch [the Clintons have] truly become.”
The new information covers a period beginning in January 2014 and shows the Clintons were paid about $250,000 every time they spoke. She has not been required to release any details about what she earned in the 2013 calendar year after she left the State Department.
Now that she is running for president, Hillary Clinton has stopped giving paid speeches. But Bill Clinton said this month that he intends to continue to collect speaking fees, even as his wife campaigns.
“I gotta pay our bills,” he told NBC News..........
Liiar. Liat. Jumpsuit on fire...
You find him passed out in the poison ivy in the morning.
He's harmless but you don't give him the keys to your car.
The Witch is just plain evil.
nice
“You can’t buy me” = “You can’t AFFORD me”.
GMTA!!!
hahahahahahahahaha.....
Which accent did she say that in?
Der Hildebeast has symptoms of one with compulsive lying disorder. There is a deeper illness. It is a pathological addiction to lying which is a result of a narcissistic personality disorder. Asking her questions only feeds into her addiction. It is like giving an alcoholic a drink. Those questions just enables her to practice her lies. Oh yes. Don’t ever give der Hildebeast a drink.
What was the purpose of Hillary Clinton’s enthusiastically hugging Yassir Arafat’s wife?
http://www.charitynavigator.org/index.cfm?bay=search.profile&ein=311580204#.VqnMBlLWqyh
Bill Hillary & Chelsea Clinton Foundation
Little Rock, AR
Why isn’t this organization rated?
We had previously evaluated this organization, but have since determined that this charity’s atypical business model can not be accurately captured in our current rating methodology. Our removal of The Clinton Foundation from our site is neither a condemnation nor an endorsement of this charity. We reserve the right to reinstate a rating for The Clinton Foundation as soon as we identify a rating methodology that appropriately captures its business model.
What does it mean that this organization isn’t rated?
It simply means that the organization doesn’t meet our criteria. A lack of a rating does not indicate a positive or negative assessment by Charity Navigator.....
For all the ‘rent’ observations:
You rent cankles like you rent beer.
Shouldn’t have said these two gems either, “no one is to big to jail” and “every rape victim should be believed.” She makes this way too easy. LOL
No, you can’t buy her. But you can lease her for defined periods and have an open ended automatic renewal.
She is poor, you know
Clinton Foundation took massive payoffs, promised Hammond Ranch and other publicly owned lands to Russians along with one-fifth of our uranium ore
Hillary shreds Constitution, exposed as ultimate backer of massive U.S. land grab:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/chat/3378862/posts?page=77#77
Older article here:
You can’t buy her, but you can rent her for the right price.
Yes!!!
bttt
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