Wikileaks also drops Clinton Wall Street speech excerpts

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www.politico.com/story/2016/10/john-podesta-wikileaks-hacked-emails-229304

Hillary Clinton’s advisers appear to have emailed to each other partial transcripts of her closed-door paid speeches and highlighted the most potentially damaging portions, according to a message exchange posted by Wikileaks on Friday.

The email quotes Clinton as describing to a Goldman Sachs-Black Rock event in 2014 her distance from middle-class Americans.

“My father loved to complain about big business and big government, but we had a solid middle class upbringing. We had good public schools. We had accessible health care. We had our little, you know, one-family house that, you know, he saved up his money, didn't believe in mortgages. So I lived that,” she said in the speech. “And now, obviously, I'm kind of far removed because the life I've lived and the economic, you know, fortunes that my husband and I now enjoy, but I haven't forgotten it.”

The messages are included in a trove of emails allegedly hacked from top Clinton aide John Podesta’s personal email. The revelations are likely to add fuel to Republican arguments that Clinton is too close to Wall Street.

The speech excerpts also delve into her support for a Canadian-style universal health care system, her “dream” for “a hemispheric common market, with open trade and open borders.”

Wikileaks, headed by Julian Assange, announced that the emails include communications on nuclear energy and “media handling over donations to the Clinton Foundation from mining and nuclear interests.” It also includes correspondence with Clinton herself.

It’s the latest document dump by Wikileaks that appears aimed at damaging Democrats in the final sensitive weeks before the November election, just as Clinton appeared to be seizing momentum in polls after a debate victory in late September.

The disclosure also came just minutes after embarrassing audio of Donald Trump’s comments on sexually taking advantage of women was posted by the Washington Post. It also came as the Obama administration asserted confidence that Russia was behind the leak of sensitive election documents and attempts to meddle in the U.S. election season.

In the speech excerpts, Clinton-allied researchers flagged her positive remarks about the Keystone XL Pipeline and trade, made well before she came out against the pipeline and the Trans-Pacific Partnership.

"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,” Clinton told a Brazilian bank in 2013. She added, “We have to resist, protectionism, other kinds of barriers to market access.”

An aide flagged these remarks as sounding “Pro-Keystone”: "Keystone is a contentious issue, and of course it is important on both sides of the border for different and sometimes opposing reasons, but that is not our relationship.” The Huffington Post has reported that the June 2014 speech to tinePublic, Inc., was among several speeches with ties to two Canadian banks with a financial interest in the oil project.

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That's it? That's the big scandal? That Clinton is self aware enough to reflect on her economic prosperity, and wants free trade to elevate opportunity and prosperity?

Oh no. The horror.

[cinderbella]

Aaaaahahahahahaha. Assange was upstaged by Trump's stupidity again.

[lulu13]

No one gives a crap

[2doxies]

Meh.

[isabel]

Those quotes are... not concerning.

[Jalapeñomel]

L.o.fucking.l

[chedifuen]

This is like the opposite of an October Surprise

[RoxMonster]

LOL. OK.

I love that this came out today with the absolute disgusting shit show of Trump stuff that just came out today too.

[karinothing]

So she is rich and wants a free global market? shock me shock me shock me with that deviant behavior.

I hope someone gets that reference

[elleblue]

Oct 7, 2016 18:19:06 GMT -5 isabel said:

Those quotes are... not concerning.

Yeah. Not at all. How embarrassing for wiki rapeyleaks. 

[JLV]

[OscarQ]

I was waiting for the bottom to fall out and...still waiting. Nice try Assange. Come back when you've got the goods. Clock's ticking.

[W.T.Faulkner]

I think it's nice that she acknowledges how wealthy she is now, and that she makes no mention of how she got there. I find it so exhausting to hear assbaskets like Trump tout those "self-made" stories over and over again. She refers to her upbringing as a great place to start. That's really nice.

[jigsy]

I kept waiting for the bombshell:

-we need to work to open tax loopholes for all the richie riches like us




But...

If those are the worst things they pulled from the speeches...well, shit..they seem like pretty liberal speeches to be made to wall street bankers. Sustainable energy, universal healthcare - sounds about right.

[elleblue]

Oct 7, 2016 18:56:26 GMT -5 jigsy said:

I kept waiting for the bombshell:

-we need to work to open tax loopholes for all the richie riches like us




But...

If those are the worst things they pulled from the speeches...well, shit..they seem like pretty liberal speeches to be made to wall street bankers. Sustainable energy, universal healthcare - sounds about right.

This doesn't shock me at all. One of the speeches she made at Goldman Sachs has been up on YouTube for forever, and it's focus is women entrepreneurs. Also a pretty liberal speech to give to a room full of Wall Street bankers. 

[katietornado]

Oct 7, 2016 18:25:55 GMT -5 karinothing said:

So she is rich and wants a free global market? shock me shock me shock me with that deviant behavior.

I hope someone gets that reference

YES!!!

[chw57]

If this is the October surprise bombshell, I'll take it. Nice try, ASSange

[Velar Fricative]

Next Wikileak - Hillary talks about owning a Birkin. That untrustworthy bitch.

[emisi]

So Assange tries to divert attention from Trump's horrific video and the Russia revelations, but fails miserably. Ha!

[Deleted]

Oct 7, 2016 18:25:55 GMT -5 karinothing said:

So she is rich and wants a free global market? shock me shock me shock me with that deviant behavior.

I hope someone gets that reference

Empire Records! I've seen that movie dozens of timeS. I adore it.

[funchicken]

I think she didn't release the speeches because she felt that they were demanding something of her that wasn't being demanded of the men. Lots of presidential candidates have been paid for speaking engagements. It always pissed me off that she was getting attacked for being a paid speaker when she was a private citizen.

Also, lots of the leaks were obviously fake.

[froggy76]

Am I the only one who likes her more now? This is the Clinton I like... Not the one who panders to the Bernie bros.

I love her candor about politics and how the sausage is made. Imagine how much could get done in Washington if everyone were willing to roll up their sleeves and figure out how to work together.

[aurora]

This isn't even in the same galaxy as Trump.

[notsocreepylurker]

OMG! She's rich! The HORROR! How can someone rich ever be a good President?

Like, hasn't EVERY SINGLE MAN that has run for President been rich?

[londoncalling]

Oct 8, 2016 10:01:57 GMT -5 notsocreepylurker said:

OMG! She's rich! The HORROR! How can someone rich ever be a good President?

Like, hasn't EVERY SINGLE MAN that has run for President been rich?

And being rich is Trump's self proclaimed best qualification for the job of President. But HRC being rich is unacceptable!!