Hillary Clinton Sounded ‘Like a Goldman Sachs Managing Director’ in Paid Speeches

Politico got in touch with several sources who attended Hillary Clinton‘s 2013 closed-door speeches before Goldman Sachs, with those sources telling them Clinton sounded far friendlier to banks than her current campaign rhetoric.

“It was pretty glowing about us,” one attendee told Politico. “It’s so far from what she sounds like as a candidate now. It was like a rah-rah speech. She sounded more like a Goldman Sachs managing director.”

In one speech, Clinton reportedly told the bankers that they alone were not responsible for the 2008 financial crisis, and that Dodd-Frank should be re-examined to see what parts were and weren’t working. By contrast, Clinton said in a 2015 Facebook chat, “As president, I’ll defend Dodd-Frank — and I’ll go beyond.”

“It was mostly basic stuff, small talk, chit-chat,” another attendee said. “But in this environment, it could be made to look really bad.”

The Clinton campaign strongly disputed the Politico report, with spokesperson Brian Fallon saying the attendees were engaging in “pure trolling.”

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