Bernie Sanders pressed Hillary Clinton Sunday night to release the transcripts from paid speeches she gave to Wall Street as he called into question her sincerity that she would be tough on big banks.
“One of us has given speeches on Wall Street for hundreds of thousands of dollars. Now, I kind of think if you get paid a couple hundred thousand dollars for a speech, it must be a great speech. I think we should release it and let the American people see what that transcript was,” Sanders said during the CNN debate in Michigan.
Clinton repeated that she would be willing to release those speech transcripts when other candidates in the 2016 presidential race released theirs.
Sanders said he was happy to release his speeches to Wall Street.
“While I am your opponent, I release it. Here it is. There ain’t nothing,” Sanders said, waving his arms, referring to the fact that he does not actually give paid speeches to Wall Street.
What a vacuous bit of sophistry.
Bernie gets paid $40,000 a speech and hasn’t released ANY of his speeches. Yeah he hasn’t given any speeches to Wall Street, but he gives PLENTY of speeches to other people and isn’t trying to open his kimono on those, now is he?
Sorry. No politician has ever been asked to release transcripts of speeches to private groups. Ever. In our entire history. Play Clinton Calvinball with someone else.
Both of these candidates are working hard to obfuscate the reality that they are vastly more alike than different, save as to electability. The “issues” that they raise about one another are so many dandelion puffs.
But, really, that’s all Sanders has. Wall Street bad. Clinton talk to Wall Street. Clinton bad.
got a link for that claim?
I found his comments about her speeches must be “Shakesperian” to get paid $200K from Goldman Sachs. You know who else got paid that much? Larry the Cable Guy. And Lady Gaga.
And Hillary has donated millions from her paid speeches the charities. Is it better to let Goldman Sachs,the company he reviles at every turn, keep that money for the nefarious purposes…or is it better to give a speech about expanding women’s roles in economies and extract that money from GS, and donate it to a charity? Because that is precisely what has happened.