For your viewing pleasure, I cobbled together all of Secretary Clinton’s responses to “where are the transcripts.” Specifically, we want to see transcripts of 12 paid speeches she made at 10 big banks, for a payout of $2.4 million.
Why the transcripts matter
According to attendees quoted in this Politico article, she told the banks they were unjustly vilified and offered them a “path out of the woods”—and presumably back into DC. That doesn’t match what she says publicly about the banks.
These are the sames banks that caused the Great Recession after gambling away billions on unsound investments and then bet on whether those investments would fail (that’s fraud, fyi). These same banks then successfully lobbied for a taxpayer-funded $700 billion bailout, and when they got it immediately rewarded themselves with huge bonuses.
These transcripts matter because we—the taxpayers who bailed out the banks—deserve to know whether Clinton is saying the same thing to the banks in private as she is saying to us in public.
The Great Transcript Search of 2016
Response #1
The laugh. Except the reporter she laughed at was Lee Fang of The Intercept, who wrote this accompanying article. Ouch.
Response #2
Genuinely caught off guard at the democratic debate, Clinton promises to “look into” releasing the transcripts of those 12 paid speeches at 10 banks.
Response #3
Throw the kitchen sink and see what sticks: Clinton claims this is all a smear by the Sanders campaign, and she implies that donations don’t influence politicians—SERIOUSLY?!
Response #4
You show me yours, and I’ll show you mine. Clinton has one opponent, and he didn’t make paid speeches on Wall Street. To imply that he’s just as corrupt as her is disingenuous and dirty.