Clinton Says She'll Release Transcripts If Everyone Else Does

[Purveyor]

By Eliza Collins
02/18/16 10:54 PM EST

Hillary Clinton will release transcripts to her paid speeches — just as long as everyone else does too.

“I am happy to release anything I have when everybody else does the same,” Clinton said during Thursday's Democratic town hall in Nevada, before adding that all other candidates had made paid speeches — including her Democratic rival, Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders.

According to The New York Times, Sanders made just under $2,000 for three speeches in 2014, a fraction of what Clinton has made.

The former secretary of state made $675,000 for three speeches for Goldman Sachs. When asked during a previous televised town hall event why she accepted so much money, she responded, "Well, that’s what they offered.”

Clinton's aides and allies have sought to downplay the need to release her speech transcripts.

Read more: http://www.politico.com/story/2016/02/hillary-clinton-speech-transcripts-219472#ixzz40b4Hz7Fv

[noiretextatique]

1. Bernie released his

time for her to do the same. i sense an "evolution" coming...

[Lucinda]

2. Asked for a link but just found it!

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[noiretextatique]

3. great! eom

[gwheezie]

4. Seems reasonable

Why should she?

[CBGLuthier]

5. Doesn't that make her a follower instead of a leader?

Not very presidential to be a follower instead of a leader.

I sure hate to think what she must have said in those speeches to fight so hard on not letting people know. It must be really awful for her to not want the common people to see it.

Yes, it must be awful.

[EndElectoral]

8. Exactly, but surely everyone knows this is deflection.

[femmedem]

6. Now that Bernie has released his, she's allowing her timing to be dictated by Republicans.

Translation: she'll do it when hell freezes over. She's just phrasing it more acceptably.

[nichomachus]

7. How about everyone release the transcripts of speeches they gave

Where they demanded and received in excess of $100,000
Where they demanded and were provided with a private jet
Where they demanded and were provided with the presidential suite in a five-star hotel
Where they demanded and were provided with a $1,200 stenographer to produce secret transcripts

That seems fair.

[panader0]

9. Who is "everybody else"?

I thought she had only one opponent.

[casperthegm]

10. Good thing she doesn't have a trust issue with voters...

Otherwise, this might look bad.

Sanders made less than $2k and donated proceeds to Charity. Hillary? Not so much. If there's nothing to hide, what's the problem Hillary? Afraid that anything said will get used against you in an ad? I bet you are, but you took the money, now you have to answer for it.

[libtodeath]

11. So she wants to run on a platform of "no worse then a republican"?

[Orsino]

12. Who else made secret speeches to the architects of disaster?

Why wasn't anyone allowed to record the speeches? Why did Clinton insist on exclusive control of the only transcipts?

https://theintercept.com/2016/02/05/heres-what-clintons-paid-speaking-contract-looks-like/

Why were there no detailed press stories about the content? What's the big secret, and would it support or undermine her "cut it out" claim?

And why the fuck should her disclosure have to come last?

[coyote]

13. That's integrity for you.

What a horrible candidate she is.