Bill Clinton: Romney investment queries are 'relevant' to election
Source: MSNBC
Former president Bill Clinton spoke out about the economy's role in the 2012 election — and told TODAY's Savannah Guthrie that questions of Mitt Romney's investment history are fair game.
“Our economy doesn’t exist in a vacuum,” said the former president, citing the economic slowdown in Europe, China, Russia and Brazil. “All that affects us,” he said, “And, you know, I’m not sure both sides want the economy to get better.” President Obama wants the economy to improve, he said, but pointed to Republican Senator Mitch McConnell who, according to Clinton, has prioritized winning the election.
Guthrie asked Clinton if he believed Republicans are rooting for the economy to fail.
“No, I didn't say that. Senator McConnell did. And Senator McConnell said his number one goal was not to get the economy going again. It was to defeat the president. So I hope they're not rooting for it to fail. I think, you know, they really may believe that austerity now is the right policy.”
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Clinton said queries into Romney's foreign bank accounts, in Switzerland and the Cayman Islands, are relevant to evaluating his fitness for the presidency — "just as relevant as the going over my record as governor got when I ran for president." Though Romney’s Swiss account was closed by his lawyer in 2010, he still has money in the Caymans. “He's said, basically — ‘I'd be a better president 'cause I know how to create jobs 'cause that's what I did.’ And he's going to take credit for running a successful Olympics, for example. So all your work life before you run for president is relevant.”
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