Clinton Insists She’s Not Beholden to Wall Street While Raking in $21.4 Million

[UglyGreed]

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“But you know anybody who knows me who thinks that they can influence me, name anything they’ve influenced me on,” she said. “Just name one thing. I’m out here every day saying I’m going to shut them down, I’m going after them. I’m going to jail them if they should be jailed. I’m going to break them up.”

Clinton really raised eyebrows by insisting that many Wall Street-backed super PACs were now gunning for her and that “They’re not giving me very much money now, I can tell you that much. Fine with me.”

However, The Washington Post reported today that Clinton’s assertion is patently false. The newspaper reported that through the end of December, “donors at hedge funds, banks, insurance companies and other financial-services firms had given at least $21.4 million to support Clinton’s 2016 presidential run.” That means that more than one out of every 10 dollars of the $157.8 million contributed to her campaign overall came from the financial industry, according to The Post’s analysis of Federal Election Commission reports.

http://finance.yahoo.com/news/clinton-insists-she-not-beholden-180300868.html

[EdwardBernays]

1. Why

If she's doing nothing wrong is she lying about this and rescheduling her hedge fund fundraisers until after NH?

WEIRD.

[daleanime]

2. Yeahup, if she considers it an attack to talk about it....

doesn't that mean that she knows she wrong to do it?

[EdwardBernays]

3. Befuddled

Very odd.

Maybe it's dementia...?

[HooptieWagon]

6. Or concussion.

CTE perhaps?

[MissDeeds]

14. I have wondered about that too

It is not a smear or a a personal attack, but a valid concern for voters, especially since CTE has been in the news so much lately.

[HooptieWagon]

27. I'm pretty sure it's repeated concussions,...

...sometimes just lots of very minor ones. But maybe one big one can cause it. Theres not much known about it. Can't even diagnose it except by autopsy.

[MissDeeds]

28. I read an article in Vanity Fair,

the November 2015 issue, that quoted Huma Abedin as saying "she's confused a lot." That's not good, especially when her closest and most loyal advisor expresses concern.

[HooptieWagon]

29. I kind of remember reading about dizzy spells.

I don't know if that was from a reliable source. But there seems to be valid concerns.

[UglyGreed]

4. .

[nichomachus]

5. She's not cheap. It takes more than $24 million to buy her.

[speaktruthtopower]

7. Clinton claims she’s a target of Wall Street

http://thehill.com/blogs/ballot-box/dem-primaries/268342-clinton-claims-shes-a-target-of-wall-street

[UglyGreed]

8. A target huh

perhaps she can have her son-law to speak to them and tell to cut it out.....

[treestar]

9. You're just claiming people are always influenced

by who gives them money for a damn campaign. It's not their fault that you need money for the campaign. But it does not mean you won't enforce the law when you are the POTUS.

The best candidate would be Trump then, who uses his own money.

[Wilms]

30. No. The best candidate would be SANDERS then, who uses OUR donated money.

[myrna minx]

31. What do you think motivates corporate donations? Charity? Citizenship?

Why would they donate to a campaign if not to influence? I'm just gobsmacked that this is an attempt at a serious argument.

[uponit7771]

10. Clinton rank 11th most liberal out of 50 senators... Hillary Liberal enough for most of the poor

[UglyGreed]

11. Many believe that

that the USA has veered further and further to the right these last thirty or forty years now. 11th might be 50th back a few decades ago.

[Odin2005]

15. All that shows is how narrow American politics is.

Mainstream American political debate only exists a a very narrow range that assumes Neo-Liberal Globalist Capitalism is the only valid economic position.

[winter is coming]

12. I guess she's good at getting "free stuff". n/t

[dreamnightwind]

13. The lie detector went off when she said she is going to break them up

That was disgusting, since it is so untrue.

[840high]

17. ....

“Americans of all political persuasions are coming to the sad realization that our first lady — a woman of undoubted talents who was a role model for many in her generation — is a congenital liar.”
- William Safire, New York Times, referring to Hillary Clinton

[reformist2]

16. She's ridiculous.

[UglyGreed]

18. I don't understand

how one can believe people won't find this stuff out in this day and age. This is one of the reasons why younger people are flocking to Bernie, they can use the Google. Clickety click as they say.

[Hiraeth]

19. 21.4 million.

I need to throw up.

[UglyGreed]

24. Hope you can afford to

see a doctor if it gets too bad for you.

[Hiraeth]

25. lol ... thanks

[UglyGreed]

26. '

[quantass]

20. I get the sense her supporters dont understand nor care. Crazy World!

[UglyGreed]

23. Perhaps some of her colleagues

don't mind either.

[cali]

21. She isn't just a fibber, she's a purveyor of whopping lies

[UglyGreed]

22. Ain't that

the truth.