by Katherine Timpf February 4, 2016 8:17 PM @KatTimpf
When Hillary “OMG Please Think I’m Anti–Wall Street Like Bernie” Clinton was questioned about Goldman Sachs’s paying her $675,000 for three speeches, her defense was that she accepted it only because she had no idea she’d be running for president someday.
- First of all: That’s obviously a lie.
- Second of all: Even if it weren’t, all she’d really be saying there is that she accepted it only because she didn’t know it would become a political inconvenience — and not because she has any kind of problem with Wall Street itself.
- Third of all (to steal a line from another one of her finest moments): What difference does it make?
Think about it. People give money to people they like, and people like the people who pay them. Hillary may have thought she was making herself look better by brushing off that huge check as being simply “what they offered” her . . . but in fact, that makes it all so, so much worse.
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