Wikileaks releases excerpts of Hillary’s paid speech transcripts

By Carl Campanile
October 7, 2016 | 8:02pm



Hacked e-mails show Hillary Clinton’s campaign was concerned that remarks she made in paid speeches to Wall Street firms behind closed doors would become public and used against her by political opponents.

Excerpts of her speeches, contained in e-mails sent to campaign chairman John Podesta and leaked Friday by Wikileaks, show Clinton promoting herself as a proponent of free trade.

“My dream is a hemispheric common market, with open trade and open borders,” Clinton is quoted as telling a Brazilian Bank in 2013.

“We have to resist, protectionism, other kinds of barriers to market access and to trade.”

Candidate Clinton opposes the Trans-Pacific Partnership — which she backed as secretary of state.

Clinton campaign research director Tony Carrk was so worried about the political impact if the speeches ever came out that he sent Podesta some possible damaging headlines.

“CLINTON ADMITS SHE IS OUT OF TOUCH,” “CLINTON SAYS YOU NEED TO HAVE A PRIVATE AND PUBLIC POSITION ON POLICY,” and “CLINTON REMARKS ARE PRO KEYSTONE AND PRO TRADE,” he warned in a January 2016 e-mail.

Clinton was paid up to $225,000 per speech and earned more than $3 million from financial firms.

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