Mark today down, as it’s the day when Hillary officially loses the election.
As the Wikileaks October surprise by Julian Assange was seen by many to be a big hoax, it just delivered a bombshell to the doorstep of Hillary’s campaign. It obtained more than 50,000 emails from Jon Podesta, her campaign chairman, which revealed her transcripts of high-dollar speeches with big banks like Goldman Sachs and the fact that she referred to millenials as a “bucket of losers.”
Remember, this is the nominee that champions “progressive” values, but goes behind closed doors and takes a paycheck to tell people what they need to hear. She’s bought and paid for and will lie to anyone for a buck. She absolutely cannot be trusted.
According to the Daily Beast,
The statements by Clinton, which were gleaned from documents that have yet to be authenticated by The Daily Beast, were made in private settings to big banks and Wall Street firms. The speeches appear to paint her in the worst possible light: two-faced, out of touch, secretive and subservient to Wall Street. And in the most explicit way possible, validate Bernie Sanders’ criticisms of her during the Democratic primary.
Sanders, who before his presidential bid was an independent senator and self-described democratic socialist, led a credible challenge to Clinton based on frustration with Wall Street’s access to lawmakers, the revolving door between regulators and those they regulate, and how Washington’s political class has lost touch with America’s middle class.
The emails show that Sanders, who has since endorsed Clinton, had a point.
In one email in Podesta’s inbox, first reported by BuzzFeed, the Clinton campaign appears to summarize their candidate’s most shocking statements made during private speeches to Wall Street firms and other business organizations.
Apparently anticipating the possibility of a leak of private speech transcripts, which were a controversial issue during the Democratic primary earlier this year, Clinton Research Director Tony Carrk put together a memo with the most damaging quotes she had made in private speeches. Ironically, these were later leaked.
“I represented and worked with so many talented principled people who made their living in finance,” she said in one 2014 speech to Robbins Geller Rudman & Dowd, a firm that specializes in complex securities litigation on behalf of investors, according to the email that was sent to Podesta and other senior aides.
In a series of speech excerpts from April 2013 to January 2015, Clinton supported open markets in the Americas; speaks of the need for a “public and private position” while “back room discussions” are taking place; and complained that conflict of interest divestments were unnecessary for politicians.
For Clinton, it is an embarrassing revelation that strikes to her greatest vulnerability: that she can’t be trusted, doesn’t mean what she says and is too close to the big banks—all at a time when she is struggling to generate enthusiasm among the young progressives who backed Sanders over her in the primary.
Perhaps the most damaging to Clinton—and most validating to Sanders—will be her fawning speeches about Wall Street—to Wall Street. In her remarks, Clinton appears to prove Bernie right. At a Goldman Sachs symposium in 2013, Clinton said that when she began traveling as Secretary of State, people would “yell at me for the United States and our banking system” causing the financial crisis.
“Now, that’s an oversimplification we know,” Clinton assured the banking firm audience, in what is purported to be a quote from one of her speeches. “But it was the conventional wisdom.”
In another excerpt, Clinton says those who work inside a regulated industry are best poised to then regulate the industry. Too much or too little regulation is bad, she says, and those who understand the right balance are often in the industry.
“How do you get to the golden key, how do we figure out what works? And the people that know the industry better than anybody are the people who work in the industry,” she allegedly said.
Speaking about her prior run for president in 2008, Clinton also says she is beholden, in a way, to big special interests such as the big banks, because “it would be very difficult to run for president without raising a huge amount of money and without having other people supporting you because your opponent will have their supporters.”
She goes on to say that she knows that she’s pretty far removed from regular people and that she found it troublesome that politicians should have to avoid conflicts of interests. You know, like taking money for favors.
“I’m kind of far removed” from the struggles of the middle class and “growing sense of anxiety and even anger in the country” because of the “fortunes” that she and former President Bill Clinton currently enjoy.
She illustrates this in another speech, when she complains about the need for politicians to avoid conflicts of interest.
“There is such a bias against people who have led successful and/or complicated lives,” she said during a speech to Goldman Sachs, according to the leaked email. “You know, the divestment of assets, the stripping of all kinds of positions, the sale of stocks. It just becomes very onerous and unnecessary.”
The leaked Clinton emails also show Clinton attacking Sanders over a position she supposedly supports. In a 2013 speech, Clinton said single-payer healthcare systems can help reduce overall costs, but cautioned that patients might have to wait longer to receive care.
Despite Clinton’s praise of single-payer healthcare, Carrk, the campaign’s research director, blasted out an opposition research memo to senior aides on October 28th, 2015, which included criticism of Sanders for his support of a “Medicare-for-all” style plan for healthcare reform—specifically, how to pay for it.
“His plan would repeal the Affordable Care Act, as well as Medicare, TRICARE [military healthcare program], Medicaid, and SCHIP [State Children’s Health Insurance Program],” according to the memo. “His proposal would cost roughly $15 trillion. Vermont tried to implement a single payer plan but scrapped it because it would cost too much.”
Without disputing the leaks, the Clinton campaign has also refused to formally authenticate them. However, the campaign did acknowledge that documents had been stolen, and went on the offensive by alleging that the Russian government has directed WikiLeaks to influence the American elections.
Yeah. When in doubt, blame the Russians. That’ll do it.
Here’s Mark Dice with a rundown and analysis of what the leaked emails mean for Hillary’s campaign:
She’s done. Bring on November.
(Sources: Daily Beast, YouTube)