I mean, on general principle, I don't see why she should. And it's rich for Bernie to keep piously demanding it when he won't even release his own taxes.
http://lastmenandovermen.blogspot.com/2016/04/bernie-sanders-is-wrong-person-to.html
It's a normal part of running for President to release your tax returns. For some reason Bernie is doing a Mitt Romney. He assures us there''s nothing to see in them. So why not release them? If he's 'too busy' how does he know she's not too busy to release the speeches?
It's just an absurd fishing expedition. What does he want to see, specifically? Is it that he's hoping to catch her telling the bankers how to get around bank regulations and how to stay too big too fail?
However, Bill Palmer, of DailyNewsBin, suggests another motivation for why Hillary is not going to release her speeches, just now.
"As this democratic primary race continues to drag on, with Hillary Clinton now so many hundreds of delegates and millions of votes ahead that it’s no longer clear why Bernie Sanders is even still in the race, he’s continuing to hit her even harder over the speeches she made to Wall Street firms while she was a private citizen. It doesn’t appear he’s making any headway, though Clinton could shut him up simply by posting the speech transcripts. However there is a strategic reason she prefers to sit on them, and it has nothing to do with the content of the speeches. This is actually about the republican race."
"Basic common sense tells us that there is nothing harmful in Hillary Clinton’s speeches, or else someone from one of those audiences who doesn’t like her would have come forward and leaked it by now. Hillary could indeed make her life a bit easier this primary season by putting out the transcripts, letting everyone see there’s nothing to them, and taking away Bernie’s last leg to stand on. But she recently acknowledged why she’s playing the long game."
"Professional huckster Donald Trump is her most likely opponent in the general election, and Clinton appears to have knowledge that Trump has given closed door speeches to Wall Street that would make him look very bad. She wants to wait until after they each have their party’s nomination, and then demand that he release his speech transcripts in exchange for her releasing hers. If he refuses, he comes off as the one with something to hide. If he caves under pressure, or if he can’t resist playing her game, his transcripts will make him look bad and help her November chances. But she can’t force his hand if she’s already released her own transcripts during the primary."
"In other words, Hillary knows she’ll win the nomination even as Bernie continues to chirp away about her speech transcripts. It makes her life a bit more difficult in the mean time, but it preserves a blunt object with which to hit Donald Trump when the time is right. Hillary’s brief words on the matter can be found here. Interpret as you will."
http://www.dailynewsbin.com/opinion/the-real-reason-hillary-clinton-is-sitting-on-her-wall-street-transcripts-for-now/24489/
The link is to her Daily News interview where she touches on it. The interpretation is pretty clear:
"Hillary Clinton said Saturday that “The Donald’s” speaking fees trump her own and said she’d only release the transcripts once the GOP front-runner did."
"During a wide-ranging 80-minute interview with the Daily News editorial board, Clinton, who has been under attack for not releasing the transcripts of well-paid speeches to Goldman Sachs, accused Trump of performing similarly lucrative talks."
“I have reason to believe that others have made some speeches of some interest,” Clinton told The News during her weekend sit down. When pressed for names, the former New York senator offered up the bombastic billionaire."
“I have reason to believe Donald Trump has, for money, for rather considerable amounts,” she said. “A lot more than I was ever offered.”
"Trump, who has not released the transcripts of any paid speeches from his business career preceding his presidential run, is reported to have performed many such compensated speaking events."
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/election/clinton-trump-paid-speeches-transcripts-article-1.2594745
There were some Berners on Twitter today saying that only she has given paid speeches-no GOPers have either. They are mistaken.
http://lastmenandovermen.blogspot.com/2016/04/bernie-sanders-is-wrong-person-to.html
It's a normal part of running for President to release your tax returns. For some reason Bernie is doing a Mitt Romney. He assures us there''s nothing to see in them. So why not release them? If he's 'too busy' how does he know she's not too busy to release the speeches?
It's just an absurd fishing expedition. What does he want to see, specifically? Is it that he's hoping to catch her telling the bankers how to get around bank regulations and how to stay too big too fail?
However, Bill Palmer, of DailyNewsBin, suggests another motivation for why Hillary is not going to release her speeches, just now.
"As this democratic primary race continues to drag on, with Hillary Clinton now so many hundreds of delegates and millions of votes ahead that it’s no longer clear why Bernie Sanders is even still in the race, he’s continuing to hit her even harder over the speeches she made to Wall Street firms while she was a private citizen. It doesn’t appear he’s making any headway, though Clinton could shut him up simply by posting the speech transcripts. However there is a strategic reason she prefers to sit on them, and it has nothing to do with the content of the speeches. This is actually about the republican race."
"Basic common sense tells us that there is nothing harmful in Hillary Clinton’s speeches, or else someone from one of those audiences who doesn’t like her would have come forward and leaked it by now. Hillary could indeed make her life a bit easier this primary season by putting out the transcripts, letting everyone see there’s nothing to them, and taking away Bernie’s last leg to stand on. But she recently acknowledged why she’s playing the long game."
"Professional huckster Donald Trump is her most likely opponent in the general election, and Clinton appears to have knowledge that Trump has given closed door speeches to Wall Street that would make him look very bad. She wants to wait until after they each have their party’s nomination, and then demand that he release his speech transcripts in exchange for her releasing hers. If he refuses, he comes off as the one with something to hide. If he caves under pressure, or if he can’t resist playing her game, his transcripts will make him look bad and help her November chances. But she can’t force his hand if she’s already released her own transcripts during the primary."
"In other words, Hillary knows she’ll win the nomination even as Bernie continues to chirp away about her speech transcripts. It makes her life a bit more difficult in the mean time, but it preserves a blunt object with which to hit Donald Trump when the time is right. Hillary’s brief words on the matter can be found here. Interpret as you will."
http://www.dailynewsbin.com/opinion/the-real-reason-hillary-clinton-is-sitting-on-her-wall-street-transcripts-for-now/24489/
The link is to her Daily News interview where she touches on it. The interpretation is pretty clear:
"Hillary Clinton said Saturday that “The Donald’s” speaking fees trump her own and said she’d only release the transcripts once the GOP front-runner did."
"During a wide-ranging 80-minute interview with the Daily News editorial board, Clinton, who has been under attack for not releasing the transcripts of well-paid speeches to Goldman Sachs, accused Trump of performing similarly lucrative talks."
“I have reason to believe that others have made some speeches of some interest,” Clinton told The News during her weekend sit down. When pressed for names, the former New York senator offered up the bombastic billionaire."
“I have reason to believe Donald Trump has, for money, for rather considerable amounts,” she said. “A lot more than I was ever offered.”
"Trump, who has not released the transcripts of any paid speeches from his business career preceding his presidential run, is reported to have performed many such compensated speaking events."
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/election/clinton-trump-paid-speeches-transcripts-article-1.2594745
There were some Berners on Twitter today saying that only she has given paid speeches-no GOPers have either. They are mistaken.
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