Partial transcripts of Hillary Clinton's Wall Street speeches have been released by WikiLeaks along with other emails from Hillary Clinton's campaign chair John Podesta. Bernie Sanders had called on Clinton to release transcripts of the speeches, for which she is estimated to have earned around $26 million, during the Democratic primary:
Transcripts of private speeches by US Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton have been released by the whistle-blowing site Wikileaks. In one of the extracts, Mrs Clinton told bankers that they were best-placed to help reform the US financial sector. [...] The excerpts include comments made at an event sponsored by Goldman Sachs in October 2013 in which Mrs Clinton spoke of the need to consult Wall Street over financial reform. "The people that know the industry better than anybody are the people who work in the industry," Mrs Clinton said. At another speech presented to a Brazilian bank in 2013, she spoke of her "dream" for a common trade market. "My dream is a hemispheric common market, with open trade and open borders, some time in the future with energy that is as green and sustainable as we can get it, powering growth and opportunity for every person in the hemisphere," Mrs Clinton said.
John Podesta blames the Russians. The emails were posted a few days after the 10th anniversary of WikiLeaks.
Here is "The Podesta Emails; Part One" press release at WikiLeaks, which emphasizes Clinton involvement with the sale of Uranium One to Russian interests:
As Russian interests gradually took control of Uranium One millions of dollars were donated to the Clinton Foundation between 2009 and 2013 from individuals directly connected to the deal including the Chairman of Uranium One, Ian Telfer. Although Mrs Clinton had an agreement with the Obama White House to publicly identify all donors to the Clinton Foundation, the contributions from the Chairman of Uranium One were not publicly disclosed by the Clintons. When the New York Times article was published the Clinton campaign spokesman, Brian Fallon, strongly rejected the possibility that then-Secretary Clinton exerted any influence in the US goverment's review of the sale of Uranium One, describing this possibility as "baseless".
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The leaked emails have further angered former/current Sanders supporters, although that might not matter by Election Day:
Supporters of former Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders on Saturday expressed anger and vindication over leaked comments made by Hillary Clinton to banks and big business that appeared to confirm their fears about her support for global trade and tendency to cozy up to Wall Street. [...] "This is a very clear illustration of why there is a fundamental lack of trust from progressives for Hillary Clinton," said Tobita Chow, chair of the People's Lobby in Chicago, which endorsed Sanders in the primary election. "The progressive movement needs to make a call to Secretary Clinton to clarify where she stands really on these issues and that's got to involve very clear renunciations of the positions that are revealed in these transcripts," Chow said. The revelations were quickly overshadowed by the release of an 11-year-old recording of Donald Trump, the Republican presidential nominee, making lewd comments about women.
Bonus: John Podesta has been an outspoken supporter of the "Disclosure" movement, which seeks to reveal government knowledge of the existence of extraterrestrial life. Here are two emails sent by Edgar D. Mitchell, one of the Apollo 14 astronauts, to John Podesta. Mitchell branded himself as a "Zero Point Energy Consultant" before his death. Unfortunately for Earthlings, extraterrestrials "will not tolerate any forms of military violence on Earth or in space" (good luck with that).
UPDATE: 10 Oct: 14:56 UTC
Another 2086 emails have just been released by Wikileaks: http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2016/10/breaking-wikileaks-dumps-another-2086-podesta-emails/.
As the article points out:
This ought to make Hillary Clinton's already bad day – even worse.
(Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Monday October 10 2016, @12:06PM
Or maybe prescription meds, as we saw from last night's debate. Not only was he sniffing constantly, but he seemed to be somewhat sedated.
Maybe someone from the medical community less biased than Howard Dean, MD will weigh in this time.
BTW the bit about hiring a special prosecutor to go after Hillary was pure political calculation to motivate his base to turn out. Of course, Hillary does the same. Everything both of them said last night had one eye on the 538.
I suspect Trump actually thinks Hillary would make a good President. Remember, he just said he admired Germany's Merkel. Even though that was probably in part another calculation (to answer the bit about his feelings towards women in power) I think he actually meant it.
(Score: 1, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Monday October 10 2016, @12:08PM
who gives a shit?
WE NEED TO MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!
(Score: 3, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Monday October 10 2016, @02:06PM
BTW the bit about hiring a special prosecutor to go after Hillary was pure political calculation to motivate his base to turn out. Of course, Hillary does the same. Everything both of them said last night had one eye on the 538.
I disagree. Pandering to his base is a dead-end on the road to 538. He needs to expand his coalition and while that sort of shenanigan plays well with the ultra-reactionaries they were already hyper motivated. But it doesn't do anything to convince the fence-sitters that despite his yuuuuge character flaws, he would govern reasonably. Instead its says he wants to run the USA like a banana republic.
(Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Monday October 10 2016, @02:29PM
He was never going to win that debate on the issues. His strengths do not lie there. He apparently knocked it out of the park repeatedly pointing out her corruption though, which is exactly what he should be doing.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday October 10 2016, @02:42PM
"Apparently." As in according to the #trumpwon echo chamber.
(Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Monday October 10 2016, @03:05PM
Nah, just a quick survey of social media in general. Not scientific but then I wasn't trying to speak from a position of knowledge because I really don't care.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday October 10 2016, @03:01PM
plays well with the ultra-reactionaries
He apparently knocked it out of the park
Lol. Thanks for the confirmation.
(Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Monday October 10 2016, @03:47PM
Dude, I didn't even watch the thing. It held no interest from me that couldn't be better acquired by having a few good beers and watching people talk about it on social media. Clinton's folks thought she won on having better command of the issues. Duh. Trump's folks thought he nailed her to the wall on corruption. Double duh. Thus I did learn that they both did exactly what they should have done; without me having to listen to over an hour's worth of bullshit.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 2) by takyon on Monday October 10 2016, @04:37PM
Just watch the first 10-15 minutes.
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(Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Monday October 10 2016, @04:52PM
Is the fly in the first bit? Cause that's the only thing I've heard from it that's really worth tuning in for.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 2) by takyon on Monday October 10 2016, @06:10PM
Ha ha, I didn't hear about whatever that is. But I was drinking, and I did miss the last 10-15 minutes of the debate after the Internet went wonky.
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