Tonight, Wallace will have more material than ever, not the least of which are the transcripts to three speeches she gave to Goldman Sachs and then tried to keep from being publicized. WikiLeaks released what it says are those transcripts, and they have lots of interesting tidbits—for instance, her claim that Congress passed the Dodd-Frank financial regulation package in a hurry because it felt like it had to “do something,” rather than out of pure devotion to the principle of stricter Wall Street regulation. The emails also show one of her long-time allies saying her trouble with apologizing is “a pathology,” and another top aide suggesting she wouldn’t push for anti-bribery legislation on the campaign trail because the issue is “REALLY dicey territory” for her.
Clinton’s team is betting that the circumstances of the emails’ release will be more interesting than their actual contents.
“We expect that Donald Trump is going to have to answer for his refusal to even acknowledge the Russian role in the recent election-related hacks,” emailed campaign spokesman Brian Fallon. (While it’s true that the U.S. intelligence community is confident that the Russians participated in the hacks, those same spies have been notably silent on the issue of how the hacked files made their way into Assange’s hands.) “At the last debate, he again dodged the issue of the Russians’ involvement, even though he had already been briefed by U.S. intelligence officials about the state-sponsored nature of the hack. His unwillingness to speak out against this unprecedented interference in our elections—combined with his campaign’s and companies’ many connections to Russia—raise troubling questions about whether he has had advance knowledge of any of these activities.”
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