“It was pretty glowing about us,” one person who watched the event said. “It’s so far from what she sounds like as a candidate now. It was like a rah-rah speech. She sounded more like a Goldman Sachs managing director.”
– From the post: What Clinton Said in Her Speeches – “She Sounded More Like a Goldman Sachs Managing Director”
We’ve seen bits and pieces emerge from Hillary Clinton’s infamous $225,000 speech to Goldman Sachs in October 2013, but an article published by the Huffington Post yesterday adds some additional perspective. In a nutshell, the author believes that a release of these transcripts would be so damaging it would end her bid for the presidency.
Here are a few excerpts from the Huffington Post piece:
The reason you and I will never see the transcripts of Hillary Clinton’s speeches to Wall Street fat-cats — and the reason she’s established a nonsensical condition for their release, that being an agreement by members of another party, involved in a separate primary, to do the same — is that if she were ever to release those transcripts, it could end her candidacy for president.
In fact, it appears they’d cause enough trauma that Clinton would rather publicly stonewall — to the point of being conspicuously, uncomfortably evasive — in public debate after public debate, to endure damning editorial after damning editorial, and to leave thousands and thousands of voters further doubting her honesty and integrity, all to ensure that no one outside Goldman Sachs, and certainly no voter who wasn’t privy to those closed-door speeches, ever hears a word of what she said in them.
The real experts on this topic are the friends and acquaintances of Hillary’s who, for whatever reason, have chosen to be candid about what they believe is in those speeches. And it’s only that candor that helps explain the longest-running mystery of the Democratic primary — a mystery that’s been ongoing for over seventy days — which is this: why would anyone pay $225,000 for an hour-long speech by a private citizen who (at the time) claimed to have no interest in returning to politics?
Mr. Sanders has implied that there are only two possible answers: (a) the money wasn’t for the speeches themselves, but for the influence major institutional players on Wall Street thought that money could buy them if and when Clinton ran for President; or (b) the speeches laid out a defense of Wall Street greed so passionate and total that hearing it uttered by a person of power and influence was worth every penny.
Per Clinton surrogates and attendees at these speeches, the answer appears to be both (a) and (b).
Now here are a few examples of what we’ve heard from others:
1. Former Nebraska Governor and Senator Bob Kerrey (Clinton surrogate)
“Making the transcripts of the Goldman speeches public would have been devastating….[and] when the GOP gets done telling the Clinton Global Initiative fund-raising and expense story, Bernie supporters will wonder why he didn’t do the same….[As for] the email story, it’s not about emails. It is about [Hillary] wanting to avoid the reach of citizens using the Freedom of Information Act to find out what their government is doing, and then not telling the truth about why she did.”
2. Goldman Sachs Employee #1 (present at one of the speeches)
“[The speech] was pretty glowing about [Goldman Sachs]. It’s so far from what she sounds like as a candidate now. It was like a ‘rah-rah’ speech. She sounded more like a Goldman Sachs managing director.”
3. Goldman Sachs Employee #2 (present at one of the speeches)
“In this environment, [what she said to us at Goldman Sachs] could be made to look really bad.”
4. Goldman Sachs Executive or Client #1 (present at one of the speeches)
“Mrs. Clinton didn’t single out bankers or any other group for causing the 2008 financial crisis. Instead, she effectively said, ‘We’re all in this together, we’ve got to find our way out of it together.’”
5. Paraphrase of Several Attendees’ Accounts From The Wall Street Journal
“She didn’t often talk about the financial crisis, but when she did, she almost always struck an amicable tone. In some cases, she thanked the audience for what they had done for the country. One attendee said the warmth with which Mrs. Clinton greeted guests bordered on ‘gushy.’ She spoke sympathetically about the financial industry.”
6. Goldman Sachs Employee #3 (present at one of the speeches)
“It was like, ‘Here’s someone who doesn’t want to vilify us but wants to get business back in the game. Like, maybe here’s someone who can lead us out of the wilderness.’”
7. Paraphrase of Several Attendees’ Accounts From Politico
“Clinton offered a message that the collected plutocrats found reassuring, declaring that the banker-bashing so popular within both political parties was unproductive and indeed foolish. Striking a soothing note on the global financial crisis, she told the audience, ‘We all got into this mess together, and we’re all going to have to work together to get out of it.’”
The problem with the quotes above is not merely their content — which suggests a presidential candidate not only “gushingly” fond of Wall Street speculators but unwilling to admonish them even to the smallest degree — but also that they reveal Clinton to have been dishonest about that content with American voters.
Last night in Brooklyn Mrs. Clinton said, “I did stand up to the banks. I did make it clear that their behavior would not be excused.”
Yet not a single attendee at any of Mrs. Clinton’s quarter-of-a-million-dollar speeches can recall her doing anything of the sort.
During last week’s debate in New York, Hillary demanded that Bernie release his tax return, and he produced it the very next day.
As far as Clinton’s speech transcripts, we’re still left with the following:
For more on Hillary’s incestuous relationship with Wall Street, see:
A New Low – Hillary Clinton Claims 9/11 is the Reason She’s Owned by Wall Street
COMPROMISED – How Two of Hillary Clinton’s Top Aides Received Golden Parachutes from Wall Street
Inspiration for Wall Street’s “Gordon Gekko” Proclaims – Only Sanders Can Stop the Banksters
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Why no recent “Weekly Articles”? 2014, 2015… Just wondering.
Those are mostly from back when I was only writing once a week, as opposed to multiple times a day as I do now.
Oh, the lives lost (both military and civilian) for the political B.S. correctness of it all…..Greed is like a Fukushima silent killer.
Fukushima radiation has yet to kill anyone. The waves did that. Your whole assumption has been planted in your mind by the government’s flawed policy on nuclear radiation. Nuclear power is THE ANSWER to carbon and energy policy.
here is what she fears…if she made mention of the “foundation” in anyway …all her speeches can be demanded… by J W or courts and if they are in the server and have been deleted…well…obstruction comes to mind…see just one more lie…
Great article showing exactly what happened. Do you think any one really cares if Crooked Hillary can be ruined if her minions would care ablout the country? NO way. The presidential pardon can be applied for her past , present , and future crimes. Justice Roberts will rule that way as he did in Obamacare , the immigration DOPA decision, Gay marriage and all the silence on what makes the essence of Crooked Hillary/
It’s hard to believe that not one interested party didn’t just for the hell of it record Hillary’s speech on an I-phone. Please let that person come forward now.
That person WANTS her to be elected !
This is only 1/3 speeches she gave. Some defenders of Clinton have counter posted to this, sharing a video of her backing gender equality at those paid Goldman Sachs speeches. However, it isn’t the full video/full speech or the compilation of those 3 speeches (only being about 16 minutes in length (….man $225,000 for a 16 minute speech. Where can I get THAT kind of job!). It only focuses on one small area to try to validate and verify Clinton’s “innocence.”
I agree though, If Secretary Clinton truly had nothing to hide and if she were indeed innocent, it should be absolutely no problem for her to validate or invalidate any claims made against her within a very short amount of time. Especially when her reputation and candidacy is on the line. To quote Professor Severus Snape: “You ought to be more careful. People might start to think you’re…..up to something….”
Come November it is looking like our choices will be bad and worse.
Google “Clinton Body Count” if you want to know the real Clintons.
The government is suppose to get rid of spent fuel from nuclear plant guess what it stored on site. They built a place in the mid west and then stopped working on it .
Anyone that Votes for that Criminal are insane …If you People can`t see through that deceptive lying Biatch,,you are refusing to see reality … She`s about as transparent as a brick wall ….
The Clinton’s have to be the most dishonest psychopaths to hold office in my life time. Hilary will say anything to get votes. She has no position on anything other than positions that wll get her power and money. The Clinton “charity” needs to be investigated. I’ve read comments that one judge said its nothing but a money laundering operation. I put nothing past Hilary if it will get her power and money. How anyone can vote for this POS is testament to the stupidity of the American voter. Seems more and more its coming out she operated her time as sec of state as a sell her influence to anyone willing to pay. From the reports of secret service agents who say they considered her assignment to be a punishment I can only conclude she treats staff like dogs. The e-mail and other activities are a test to see if our government has been completely taken over by criminals. If she is not prosecuted and sent to jail it means the people have lost their government. Just my opinion. I think they need to investigate the trail of suicides in the Clinton’s path through life. But they won’t because it seems most of the people in office are little more than criminals seeking power and money just like Hilary.
The Clintons are liars, criminals, and perverts. But most of all, the Clintons are Satanists.