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posted by martyb on Monday October 10 2016, @11:37AM   Printer-friendly
from the latest,-latest-read-all-about-it dept.

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.


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  • (Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Monday October 10 2016, @01:10PM

    by The Mighty Buzzard (18) Subscriber Badge <themightybuzzard@proton.me> on Monday October 10 2016, @01:10PM (#412419) Homepage Journal

    If anyone gave a shit what Rob Portman thought, he'd be sitting in Trump's chair. This endorsement is a null op.

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  • (Score: 3, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Monday October 10 2016, @01:17PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday October 10 2016, @01:17PM (#412423)

    All politics are local. Portman has an army of volunteers across Ohio knocking on doors and holding up signs at intersections. If not for that, I might agree it wouldn't matter much.

    • (Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Monday October 10 2016, @02:00PM

      by The Mighty Buzzard (18) Subscriber Badge <themightybuzzard@proton.me> on Monday October 10 2016, @02:00PM (#412442) Homepage Journal

      S'an interesting point you bring up but Trump has never counted on the backing of the GOP Establishment. He has had nothing but strident opposition from it from day one. Frankly, I'm amazed any Reps are backing him when the Bushes (for the record: I hereby disavow my very weak familial ties to that branch of the Bush family. The non-political Texas Bushes are really quite nice people though.) are actively trying to tank his candidacy rather than give up control of the party.

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      • (Score: 2, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Monday October 10 2016, @02:36PM

        by Anonymous Coward on Monday October 10 2016, @02:36PM (#412460)

        > Trump has never counted on the backing of the GOP Establishment.

        You have got to be the walking, talking personification of confident ignorance. Every single time you opine on anything non-technical you are wrong. Ever heard of google?

        Trump is heavily reliant on the RNC to campaign for him, [washingtonpost.com] more so than any other republican presidential candidate ever. Ohio is one of the few states that Trump has put any effort into field offices, but he's still behind where Romney was in 2012 (25 versus romney's 40 [fivethirtyeight.com]). And now everyone in the RNC doing get-out-the-vote work for Portman will at best be silent when it comes to Trump. More likely they will say Trump sucks and isn't a real republican in order to put distance between him and Portman. That's going to shave a couple of percentage points off Trump's total.

        Because of the winner-takes all nature of the electoral collage, Trump is now guaranteed to lose Ohio.