Hillary Not Truthful About Wall Street Speaking Fees

[Jefferson23]

Anderson Cooper: "But did you have to be paid $675,000 [for three speeches to Goldman Sachs]?"

Hillary Clinton: "Well, I don't know. That's what they offered."

Hillary is veering from the truth when she suggests her $225,000 per speech fee, paid three times by Goldman Sachs, was "what they offered."

It was not what they offered -- it was what Team Hillary demanded.

A review of her 2014 tax return posted on her website shows that $225,000 was her minimum fee.

She received $225,000 for 34 of the 41 speeches listed on her tax return. Of the remaining 7 speeches, two were for 250,000 and the others for $265,000, $275,000, $285,000, $305,000 and $400,000. In total she received $9,680,000 for these speaking engagements in 2013.

Wall Street firms funded 14 of her 41 talks. In addition to Goldman Sachs, the list includes Morgan Stanley, Deutsche Bank, Fidelity Investments UBS and Bank of America. Her benefactors also include hedge funds and private equity firms like Apollo Management and Kohlberg, Kravis, Roberts.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/les-leopold/hillary-not-truthful-abou_b_9185412.html

[merrily]

1. Hillary not truthful about her speaking fee?

[Jefferson23]

5. lol

[daleanime]

15. +1

[kath]

19. LOL!

[HooptieWagon]

27. LOL! Beat me to it!

[Betty Karlson]

48. Great comparison. n/t

[Punkingal]

2. And Bill is in New Hampshire calling Bernie a hypocrite.

[Jefferson23]

6. We who support Bernie can't take anything for granted and I don't think we have but

I will freely admit I get a level of satisfaction watching Bill feeling he
needs to attack Bernie.

So many blew off Bernie, looks like that has changed.

He said the dumbest thing today, paraphrasing...No one who took money
from Goldman-Sachs should be president. He said it like that is the
most ridiculous standard EVER.

I just laughed and laughed..unfucking believable.

[Punkingal]

12. I used to worship at his feet...now I can't stand the sight of him. Zero integrity.

[Jefferson23]

17. Yes, many of his policies have hurt our country, time we move forward. n/t

[El Shaman]

28. Blue

Dress and all!!

[mikehiggins]

37. Wow! You are going to get SOOOOO alerted

[Punkingal]

43. LOL...not hardly!

[SoapBox]

45. Ditto!

Well, I never worshipped but at the time thought that Wild Willie, Hill, Al and Tipper were pretty darned cool...after the previous Reigns of Terror.

But...then I learned and the more I learned about him and her...yuk!

[cali]

10. He's such a liar.

He's disgusted me for over 20 years.

[appalachiablue]

25. HOLY MOLY!! That's a Lot of $$-

[Moostache]

35. For perspective...its more than all the men on all those bills made COMBINED, in a LIFETIME!

Its not just a problem of honesty.
Its a problem of hoggish greed and corruption at the very heart of a candidate.

$29,512 PER HOUR.
That is what she was paid...
That is not what a person who is promising change to the status quo receives. I guarantee that.

[Jefferson23]

50. Yes. +1 n/t

[FlatBaroque]

3. And during that entire period she was not going to be running for President

It was only until patriots like Howard Dean convinced her reluctant self to come help save the Republic did she throw in her hat.

[Jefferson23]

7. Why she expects people to believe her is beyond me. n/t

[HooptieWagon]

30. I'm pretty sure she's a narcissist.

They have a tendency to be pathological liars, and expect people will believe them even when spouting utter bullshit that's obviously a lie.

[Jefferson23]

34. I don't know if I agree with that. This is what I see, people who want political power

will often self corrupt themselves. In some ways I have to wonder if she looks
in the mirror these days and says, what is the problem here??? This is how it works!

From what I have seen she and her husband compromised themselves
long ago and they're fine with it..that doesn't necessarily require pathological
liars. Yet I get what you're saying, their behavior leaves one going in that
direction.

I want to see CU overturned and then fight for public funded elections..on
a exclusive level..this way we neutralize each side and we'll draw more
sincere people to the political circle too.

[H2O Man]

4. Recommended.

Interesting and important.

[Jefferson23]

11. Yes, always best to find out as many details as possible..helps to connect the dots.

Not that we are confused about how this works with WS, but you know
what I mean.

[H2O Man]

13. Exactly.

Well done!

[downeastdaniel]

8. Ooops...I think the Hill is in a box of her own making...so sad...

[Jefferson23]

21. No one forced her to court them nor take the money, you're right. n/t

[Duval]

9. Kicked and recommended. Thanks!

Why am I not surprised?

[azurnoir]

14. wait what Hillary wasn't forthcoming about her speaking fees?

I'm shocked I tells ya shocked

[Jefferson23]

20. Details, details..they can cause a disturbance.

[Arazi]

16. Liar eom

[Enthusiast]

18. Kicked and recommended!

Thanks, Jefferson23!

[ejbr]

23. But other heads of state spoke to them

for a fee. True, this was AFTER their time in government when they did not intend to run for a position of power that could positively affect them, but this is a minor issue that should be ignored.

[Jefferson23]

24. hee hee It seems to me she gave away more about corruption in politics than she ever intended.n/t

[GoneOffShore]

26. I'm shocked. Shocked, I tell you. HRC lying??

Fetch my fainting couch!

I have a touch of the vapors.

[Akicita]

29. Correction. HGC. Hillary Goldman Clinton.

[senz]

31. She seems incapable of honesty.

Not what we need in a president.

[Jefferson23]

36. She did not have to take the money, she DECIDED it was a good idea...why is that?

That's what I would like her to explain and as Sanders said, who ever
admits to being bought? Uh, nobody, but why put yourself in that position.

Americans are sick of corruption.

[Moostache]

32. 41 days "worked", $9,680,000 "earned"....and people think she will fight for $45K and under people?

What the fuck color is the sky in THAT world? GREEN?

Let's give her the benefit of the doubt and ASSUME the speaking engagements were full day affairs and the equivalent to an 8 hour shift.

Hillary "worked" for 328 hours.
She "earned" $29,512 PER HOUR.
She also had 324 days of holiday/weekend/time off.

But Americans have yet to fully heal from the Great Recession, which officially ended five years ago. Median income remains 3.1% below its June 2009 level of $55,589. (http://money.cnn.com/2014/08/20/news/economy/median-income/)

In TWO HOURS, Hillary Clinton cleared more than the average American does in a 2080 hour annual income.
Nearly every American under the top 1% will never make $9.9M in a LIFETIME.

Yet, Hillary Clinton cleared that in 41 appearances.
41 speeches - more than likely one speech repeated 41 times - is worth more than a LIFETIME of contribution from a fire fighter, a cop, a teacher, a garbage collector, a plumber, a cook, an electrician, or any other vocation that makes REAL contributions to the the economy.

Hillary Clinton talked.
She did not talk flatteringly of the 99% while taking tithe and adulation from the 1%.
She did not strike fear into the heart of Wall Street the way an Elizabeth Warren or a Bernie Sanders does.
She did not promise them to their faces that she was coming and the party was ending.

She talked.
In words and language that assuage their guilt for the 2007-2008 rape and pillage of the planet.
In words and language that made them feel all better for being bad little monkeys.

She talked.
And she was paid.
That money had a purpose beyond hearing her words.
To doubt that, you have must be a blind partisan or the most gullible person alive.

$29,512 PER HOUR.
Let that sink in.

$29,512 PER HOUR.
That is not money being spent to give the middle class hope of a better voice in Washington or a better chance at paying for college....which btw, if I made $29,512 PER HOUR I don't think I would be terribly worried about tuition and fees that would be 100% paid for by the lunch whistle.

$29,512 PER HOUR.
That is not because she told them to "cut it out".
It's because she told them that she would SAY "cut it out" and that as long as the donations flow and the money pit gets refilled as needed, that the only thing getting cut out would be the voice of the people she claims to want to represent.

$29,512 PER HOUR.
That is how the 1% buy off the persons who claims a progressive mantle and agenda that is "pragmatic" and "gets things done"....that the guest bedroom renovation in the Hamptons estate or the Italian marble bathroom in the New York townhouse or the next speaking engagement private plane transportation.

$29,512 PER HOUR.
I am NOT ready for Hillary.
And you shouldn't be either....

[Jefferson23]

39. Wow, thanks for that post. n/t

[EdwardBernays]

33. It's ALSO worth noting over and over

That so much if her money comes from lobbyists with big banks as clients.

[hootinholler]

38. Did she also require a nondisclosure agreement?

Did she reserve the rights to republish the speeches?

I would love to see the agreement signed.

[Jefferson23]

40. Good question! n/t

[Heddi]

41. YES BUT YOU FORGOT SHE SPOKE TO CAR DEALERSHIPS AND CAMPING WORLD

somehow I'm not seeing Hill in the breakroom at Beakman Ford Mercury giving a pep-talk from 1:15-2pm..... "Hey Y'all I brought some Dunkin Donuts and Coffee if anyone wants to join me in the breakroom for a little talk-to...."

[Jefferson23]

42. lol I should not laugh but I hear ya..the cognitive dissonance is stark, isn't it.

There are two candidates, candidate A is indebted up to their eyeballs in WS,
candidate B is indebted to the citizens.

I have no idea what the difficulty is in making a choice.

[Uncle Joe]

44. Kicked and recommended.

Thanks for the thread, Jefferson.

[Spitfire of ATJ]

46. FYI....

This is what $10,000,000 looks like:



100 bundles of $100,000.

See? That's not that much.

[Jefferson23]

47. No matter what happens with the Sanders campaign, there will be no way the Democratic

Party will be the same again...thank goodness.

I find it appalling to see a candidate propped up as a realistic
counter to a candidate who has no indebtedness. I say this
as a firm Bernie supporter who also has differences of opinion
with him..but not by much...his commitment to fight for a thriving
democracy which we do not have now takes priority for me,
without one not much will get done. Clinton is also a hawk,
and I can't support more war.


I find too that those not supporting him seem to imagine
this is about stuff. I'm not sure they know what political
activism looks like when you're turning the tables on
those who DO take the influence money within their own
party. Voters show up in droves to confront them as to
why are they voting against the desires of their
constituents.

They seem to think this political revolution is about money
and only money..the money has so many tentacles it is
difficult to list all the associations.

[Spitfire of ATJ]

49. I picture Hillary being proud that McCain supports her.

[Jefferson23]

51. That's a good point, she meets their hawk factor pretty damn well. n/t

[draa]

52. K+R!!!

Thanks for the read.