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BREAKING NEWS: Hillary Clinton's Wall-Street Transcripts LEAKED #WIKILEAKS (UPDATE: DNC ADMITS IT)
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What a awful article
writer miss lead you with title, only to ramble 1000 words of nothing
come on breh
if you want to blame the people/voters, for voting for her.. that's fine
but stop with this bullshyt of it being rigged
What a awful article
writer miss lead you with title, only to ramble 1000 words of nothing
come on breh
if you want to blame the people/voters, for voting for her.. that's fine
but stop with this bullshyt of it being rigged
Are you serious 
THIS shyt WAS RIGGED DECIDED TIM KAINE IN JULY OF 2015
Nasty old heifer
Are YOU fukkING KIDDING ME
THIS shyt WAS RIGGED DECIDED TIM KAINE IN JULY OF 2015
Nasty old heifer
Are YOU fukkING KIDDING ME
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The Most Important WikiLeaks Revelation Isn’t About Hillary Clinton
What John Podesta’s emails from 2008 reveal about the way power works in the Democratic Party.
BY DAVID DAYEN
October 14, 2016
The most important revelation in the WikiLeaks dump of John Podesta’s emails has nothing to do with Hillary Clinton. The messages go all the way back to 2008, when Podesta served as co-chair of President-elect Barack Obama’s transition team. And a month before the election, the key staffing for that future administration was almost entirely in place, revealing that some of the most crucial decisions an administration can make occur well before a vote has been cast.
Michael Froman, who is now U.S. trade representative but at the time was an executive at Citigroup, wrote an email to Podesta on October 6, 2008, with the subject “Lists.” Froman used a Citigroup email address. He attached three documents: a list of women for top administration jobs, a list of non-white candidates, and a sample outline of 31 cabinet-level positions and who would fill them. “The lists will continue to grow,” Froman wrote to Podesta, “but these are the names to date that seem to be coming up as recommended by various sources for senior level jobs.”
The cabinet list ended up being almost entirely on the money. It correctly identified Eric Holder for the Justice Department, Janet Napolitano for Homeland Security, Robert Gates for Defense, Rahm Emanuel for chief of staff, Peter Orszag for the Office of Management and Budget, Arne Duncan for Education, Eric Shinseki for Veterans Affairs, Kathleen Sebelius for Health and Human Services, Melody Barnes for the Domestic Policy Council, and more. For the Treasury, three possibilities were on the list: Robert Rubin, Larry Summers, and Timothy Geithner.
This was October 6. The election was November 4. And yet Froman, an executive at Citigroup, which would ultimately become the recipient of the largest bailout from the federal government during the financial crisis, had mapped out virtually the entire Obama cabinet, a month before votes were counted. And according to theFroman/Podesta emails, lists were floating around even before that.
Many already suspected that Froman, a longtime Obama consigliere, did the key economic policy hiring while part of the transition team. We didn’t know he had so much influence that he could lock in key staff that early, without fanfare, while everyone was busy trying to get Obama elected. The WikiLeaks emails show even earlier planning; by September the transition was getting pre-clearance to assist nominees with financial disclosure forms.
We certainly want an incoming administration to be well-prepared and ready to go when power is transferred. For Obama, coming into office while the economy was melting down, this was particularly true. But the revelations also reinforce the need for critical scrutiny of Hillary Clinton, and for advocacy to ensure the next transition doesn’t go like the last, at least with respect to the same old Democrats scooping up all the positions of power well in advance.
Many liberal pundits have talked about the need to focus exclusively on Donald Trump, and the existential threat he presents, in the critical period before Election Day. And there is a logic to that idea: Trump would legitimately be a terrifying leader of the free world. But there are consequences to the kind of home-team political atmosphere that rejects any critical thought about your own side. If the 2008 Podesta emails are any indication, the next four years of public policy are being hashed out right now, behind closed doors. And if liberals want to have an impact on that process, waiting until after the election will be too late.
Who gets these cabinet-level and West Wing advisory jobs matters as much as policy papers or legislative initiatives. It will inform executive branch priorities and responses to crises. It will dictate the level of enforcement of existing laws. It will establish the point of view of an administration and the advice Hillary Clinton will receive. Its importance cannot be stressed enough, and the process has already begun.
The wing of the Democratic Party concerned about personnel decisions made its opinion known almost two years ago. Dan Geldon, now chief of staff to Senator Elizabeth Warren, met with Dan Schwerin, a top adviser to Clinton’s campaign, in January 2015. According to an email follow-up with Podesta and others, Geldon “was intently focused on personnel issues, laid out a detailed case against the Bob Rubin school of Democratic policy makers.” He was also “very critical of the Obama administration’s choices.”
The “Bob Rubin school” is named for the former top executive at Goldman Sachs and Citigroup and first Clinton administration Treasury secretary. It is composed precisely of the kinds of Democrats that the Warren wing opposes on domestic policy, particularly on financial matters. In the Obama administration, that school won out. Froman, chief of staff to Rubin at Treasury, gave options for Treasury secretary that ranged from Rubin himself to Summers and Geithner, two of his key protégés. In another 2008 email Rubin imagined for himself a “Harry Hopkins” position in the Obama administration, referring to Franklin Roosevelt’s top adviser.
The Rubin school dictated the Obama administration’s light-touch policy on bank misconduct (which resulted in no serious legal or fiduciary consequences for the major players) and its first-term approach to the financial crisis (which was defined by a stimulus package that even at the time was criticized for being woefully inadequate, as well as a premature turn to budget-cutting). These are exactly the flaws that Geldon, Warren’s emissary, stressed. According to Schwerin, he “spoke repeatedly about the need to have in place people with ambition and urgency who recognize how much the middle class is hurting and are willing to challenge the financial industry.”
Around the same time as that meeting with Geldon, the Clinton campaign wassetting up a dinner meeting with its economic policy team, Geithner, Summers, and members of the investment firm Blackstone (along with Teresa Ghilarducci, a retirement security researcher).
This is a fight over who dominates the Democratic Party’s policy thinking in the short and long term. In 2008 the fight was invisible and one-sided, and the fix was in. In 2016 both sides are angling to get Clinton to adopt their framework. Those predisposed to consider Clinton some neoliberal sap might not agree, but this is actually a live ball. Presidents lead coalitions, and they have to understand where their coalition is and how things change over time. Peter Orszag this week suggested a trade-off: Give the Warren wing its choices on personnel, in exchange for more leeway to negotiate an infrastructure package with Republicans that gives big tax breaks to corporations with money stashed overseas. While that deal needs more detail, it reveals the power the Warren wing has, relative to the Obama era, to make significant strides on appointments.
Which side will win? The rank and file can actually have a voice in this, to make it known what personnel decisions would be acceptable or unacceptable. They can’t do it by ignoring evidence or sitting on their hands. The demand to only hold one thing in your head at a time—that Trump must be stopped—would squander this opportunity.
Obama/Clinton supporters are a joke
I knew he was shady back in 08'
Obama/Clinton supporters are a joke
Know half-black person smiles that damn much.
Oh shyt
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I have a question. Has there ever been a MORE corrupt presidential candidate than $hillary?
She makes Donald Trump look down right ethical in comparison.
Nope
newworldafro
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That moment you realize you've been played for the longest time
.....That's the political wakeup call for that ass
Obama/Clinton supporters are a joke
Cotdamn....I'm actually shocked by this one...damn..
.....
There all corrupt
That moment you realize you've been played for the longest time
Nina Turner was for the people. I know she supported Clinton at first, but came around in October. She's just sick of the 1% and their bullshyt.
newworldafro
DeeperThanRapBiggerThanHH
Video does great job of condensing the congestion of emails from this week. Spotlights 5 major ones. Yall Hillary Heads don't realize what yall are supporting......
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No comment: Clinton has 'nothing to say' about Wikileaks email revealing $12M quid pro quo with Morocco's king that an aide said was a 'mess' of her own making
Published: 21:05 EST, 22 October 2016 | Updated: 09:43 EST, 23 October 2016
A stone-faced Hillary Clinton refused to comment on an email a top aide sent calling a Clinton Foundation quid pro qou a 'mess' of the former secretary of state's own making.
'I have nothing to say about Wikileaks, other than I think we should all be concerned about what the Russians are trying to do to our election and using Wikileaks very blatantly to try to influence the outcome of the election,' Clinton said on Saturday.
The Democratic nominee was responding to a question posed by DailyMail.com during a media avail with reporters riding on her campaign plane.
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Hillary Clinton refused to comment tonight on an email a top aide sent calling a Clinton Foundation quid pro qou a 'mess' of the former secretary of state's own making
'I have nothing to say about Wikileaks, other than I think we should all be concerned about what the Russians are trying to do to our election and using Wikileaks very blatantly to try to influence the outcome of the election,' Clinton said
Hacked emails revealed an internal disagreement among Clinton's aides about her desire to hold a conference in Marrakech, Morocco.
The country's king made a $12 million pledge to fund the Clinton Global Initiative conference - but only if the the likely presidential candidate attended.
Top confidante Huma Abedin bluntly wrote in a January 2015 email that 'if HRC was not part of it, meeting was a non-starter.'
Then she warned: 'She created this mess and she knows it.'
It was an uncharacteristic remark from Abedin, who is known for her abiding loyalty to Clinton over the years.
Donald Trump castigated Clinton on Friday for the 'pay for play' arrangement.
'Now from WikiLeaks, we just learned she tried to get $12 million from the Kingdom of Morocco for an appearance,' Trump said during a rally in western North Carolina.
'More pay for play!' he boomed as a crowd of thousands booed and yelled, 'Lock her up!'
'That's why I'm proposing a path of ethics reforms to make our government honest again,' the Republican presidential nominee said.
Trump said, 'It's time to drain the swamp in Washington, D.C.'
He exclaimed later, 'Boy, we love WikiLeaks!'
Revelation: Huma Abedin's frank email emerged in Wikileaks and shows her disclosing that her boss Hillary Clinton was entirely responsible for the Marrakesh mess
Donald Trump castigated Clinton on Friday for the 'pay for play' arrangement
Lock her up: The crowd chanted the slogan as Trump said it was time to 'drain the swamp'
The hacked email, stolen from an account belonging to Clinton campaign chairman John Podesta, was among more than 4,000 posted Thursday on the website of the Wikileaks organization.
Clinton was no longer serving as secretary of state at the time of the meeting in Marrakech and did not end up attending.
Abedin told Podesta and current Clinton campaign manager Robby Mook in the leaked email that the lavish May 2015 meeting of the Clinton Global Initiative was based on a $12 million pledge from Moroccan King Mohammed VI to host the event.
'The King has personally committed approx. $12 million both for the endowment and to support the meeting,' Abedin wrote.
Clinton Foundation records do not show any direct pledge of funding from the king or government of Morocco to the charity, however.
Commitments to the charity's 'global initiative' program are agreements to fund the program's international projects.
$12 million get-together: Bill Clinton was the star turn at the Clinton Foundation's Clinton Global Initiative summit in Marrakesh in May 2015. It was his wife who solicited the cash from the country's king using her own presence as a quid-pro-quo, then did not go herself
Existing relationship: Hillary Clinton had met King Mohammed VI of Morocco a number of times, including in December 2013. The next year appears to be when she solicited the money from him
In her message, Abedin said that Clinton's personal appearance at the planned meeting was a key element in the Moroccan decision to host the event.
'The condition upon which the Moroccans agreed to host the meeting was her participation,' Abedin wrote.
She added that 'CGI also wasn't pushing for a meeting in Morocco and it wasn't their first choice.'
Clinton's decision not to attend came despite a November 2014 email in which Abedin insisted 'no matter what happens, she will be in Morocco hosting CGI on May 5-7, 2015. Her presence was a condition for the Moroccans to proceed so there is no going back on this.'
The Clinton Foundation announced just before the conference that it was tightening its policy on donations from foreign governments, agreeing to allow financial gifts only from six nations that had previously supported the foundation's health, poverty and climate change programs.
Those nations were Australia, Canada, Germany, the Netherlands, Norway and the United Kingdom.
Politico had reported a week before that the CGI meeting was partly supported by a pledge of at least $1 million from OCP, a Moroccan phosphate export firm whose directors at the time included several top Moroccan government ministers, including the heads of the nation's foreign affairs and interior ministries.
In August, former President Bill Clinton said that if his wife is elected, the family's foundation would no longer accept any donations from foreign governments or corporations, or from U.S. companies.
Royal audience: The wealthy scion of a powerful dynasty met Princess Lalla Salma, wife of the queen of Morocco at the royal palace in Marrakesh
Big donor: King Mohammad VI personally gave $12 million to host the event. The State Department's latest Report on Human Rights Practices says his country imprisons 'persons for political activities or beliefs under the cover of criminal charges'
Hillary Clinton has sharply criticized Trump, the Republican nominee, for using the stolen emails to attack her and for encouraging hackers to leak thousands of emails she deleted from a now-infamous homebrew server.
Trump on Friday told his supporters he'd have 'lots of options' to punish her for erasing the server but urged them to hold their fire for now.
'Let's do this,' he said. 'If we win, we have lots of options. But we've got to win. What a waste of time if we don't pull this off!'
The Republican said at the second presidential debate that he'd appoint a special prosecutor to look into her emails and told Clinton she'd 'be in jail' if he were in the White House now.
'Every time Donald Trump says he wants to jail his opponent, meaning me, I think to myself, you know, we don't do that in America,' Clinton said Saturday at her Pittsburgh rally. 'We actually have laws and courts and an independent judiciary.'
She said later she's not worried that Donald Trump will make good on his threat to 'jail' her if he wins, though.
'I have no concerns about [that] whatsoever,' she told reporters traveling on her plane from Pittsburgh to Philadelphia after DailyMail.com asked her about his pledge.
- 'I have nothing to say about Wikileaks, other than I think we should all be concerned about what the Russians are trying to do to our election'
- Democratic nominee was responding to a question posed by DailyMail.com during a question and answer session on her plane
- Trump went on offense over the 'pay for play' agreement at a rally Friday
- Emial from Huma Abedin revealed how Clinton got King of Morocco to underwrite $12m Clinton Foundation summit
- Abedin revealed: 'The condition upon which the Moroccans agreed to host the meeting was her participation.'
- She backed out of Marrakesh event amid a human rights storm after Abedin wrote: 'She created this mess and she knows it'
Published: 21:05 EST, 22 October 2016 | Updated: 09:43 EST, 23 October 2016
A stone-faced Hillary Clinton refused to comment on an email a top aide sent calling a Clinton Foundation quid pro qou a 'mess' of the former secretary of state's own making.
'I have nothing to say about Wikileaks, other than I think we should all be concerned about what the Russians are trying to do to our election and using Wikileaks very blatantly to try to influence the outcome of the election,' Clinton said on Saturday.
The Democratic nominee was responding to a question posed by DailyMail.com during a media avail with reporters riding on her campaign plane.
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Hillary Clinton refused to comment tonight on an email a top aide sent calling a Clinton Foundation quid pro qou a 'mess' of the former secretary of state's own making
'I have nothing to say about Wikileaks, other than I think we should all be concerned about what the Russians are trying to do to our election and using Wikileaks very blatantly to try to influence the outcome of the election,' Clinton said
Hacked emails revealed an internal disagreement among Clinton's aides about her desire to hold a conference in Marrakech, Morocco.
The country's king made a $12 million pledge to fund the Clinton Global Initiative conference - but only if the the likely presidential candidate attended.
Top confidante Huma Abedin bluntly wrote in a January 2015 email that 'if HRC was not part of it, meeting was a non-starter.'
Then she warned: 'She created this mess and she knows it.'
It was an uncharacteristic remark from Abedin, who is known for her abiding loyalty to Clinton over the years.
Donald Trump castigated Clinton on Friday for the 'pay for play' arrangement.
'Now from WikiLeaks, we just learned she tried to get $12 million from the Kingdom of Morocco for an appearance,' Trump said during a rally in western North Carolina.
'More pay for play!' he boomed as a crowd of thousands booed and yelled, 'Lock her up!'
'That's why I'm proposing a path of ethics reforms to make our government honest again,' the Republican presidential nominee said.
Trump said, 'It's time to drain the swamp in Washington, D.C.'
He exclaimed later, 'Boy, we love WikiLeaks!'
Revelation: Huma Abedin's frank email emerged in Wikileaks and shows her disclosing that her boss Hillary Clinton was entirely responsible for the Marrakesh mess
Donald Trump castigated Clinton on Friday for the 'pay for play' arrangement
Lock her up: The crowd chanted the slogan as Trump said it was time to 'drain the swamp'
The hacked email, stolen from an account belonging to Clinton campaign chairman John Podesta, was among more than 4,000 posted Thursday on the website of the Wikileaks organization.
Clinton was no longer serving as secretary of state at the time of the meeting in Marrakech and did not end up attending.
Abedin told Podesta and current Clinton campaign manager Robby Mook in the leaked email that the lavish May 2015 meeting of the Clinton Global Initiative was based on a $12 million pledge from Moroccan King Mohammed VI to host the event.
'The King has personally committed approx. $12 million both for the endowment and to support the meeting,' Abedin wrote.
Clinton Foundation records do not show any direct pledge of funding from the king or government of Morocco to the charity, however.
Commitments to the charity's 'global initiative' program are agreements to fund the program's international projects.
$12 million get-together: Bill Clinton was the star turn at the Clinton Foundation's Clinton Global Initiative summit in Marrakesh in May 2015. It was his wife who solicited the cash from the country's king using her own presence as a quid-pro-quo, then did not go herself
Existing relationship: Hillary Clinton had met King Mohammed VI of Morocco a number of times, including in December 2013. The next year appears to be when she solicited the money from him
In her message, Abedin said that Clinton's personal appearance at the planned meeting was a key element in the Moroccan decision to host the event.
'The condition upon which the Moroccans agreed to host the meeting was her participation,' Abedin wrote.
She added that 'CGI also wasn't pushing for a meeting in Morocco and it wasn't their first choice.'
Clinton's decision not to attend came despite a November 2014 email in which Abedin insisted 'no matter what happens, she will be in Morocco hosting CGI on May 5-7, 2015. Her presence was a condition for the Moroccans to proceed so there is no going back on this.'
The Clinton Foundation announced just before the conference that it was tightening its policy on donations from foreign governments, agreeing to allow financial gifts only from six nations that had previously supported the foundation's health, poverty and climate change programs.
Those nations were Australia, Canada, Germany, the Netherlands, Norway and the United Kingdom.
Politico had reported a week before that the CGI meeting was partly supported by a pledge of at least $1 million from OCP, a Moroccan phosphate export firm whose directors at the time included several top Moroccan government ministers, including the heads of the nation's foreign affairs and interior ministries.
In August, former President Bill Clinton said that if his wife is elected, the family's foundation would no longer accept any donations from foreign governments or corporations, or from U.S. companies.
Royal audience: The wealthy scion of a powerful dynasty met Princess Lalla Salma, wife of the queen of Morocco at the royal palace in Marrakesh
Big donor: King Mohammad VI personally gave $12 million to host the event. The State Department's latest Report on Human Rights Practices says his country imprisons 'persons for political activities or beliefs under the cover of criminal charges'
Hillary Clinton has sharply criticized Trump, the Republican nominee, for using the stolen emails to attack her and for encouraging hackers to leak thousands of emails she deleted from a now-infamous homebrew server.
Trump on Friday told his supporters he'd have 'lots of options' to punish her for erasing the server but urged them to hold their fire for now.
'Let's do this,' he said. 'If we win, we have lots of options. But we've got to win. What a waste of time if we don't pull this off!'
The Republican said at the second presidential debate that he'd appoint a special prosecutor to look into her emails and told Clinton she'd 'be in jail' if he were in the White House now.
'Every time Donald Trump says he wants to jail his opponent, meaning me, I think to myself, you know, we don't do that in America,' Clinton said Saturday at her Pittsburgh rally. 'We actually have laws and courts and an independent judiciary.'
She said later she's not worried that Donald Trump will make good on his threat to 'jail' her if he wins, though.
'I have no concerns about [that] whatsoever,' she told reporters traveling on her plane from Pittsburgh to Philadelphia after DailyMail.com asked her about his pledge.