The conservative super PAC Future 45 will start airing a new ad this weekend that attacks Hillary Clinton for not releasing her Wall Street transcripts, in an attempt to influence voters before Super Tuesday.
“Hillary Clinton gave speeches to the biggest banks on Wall Street after one of the worst financial crises in American history,” a narrator says in the ad entitled “Paid.” “But Hillary won’t tell us what she said to those banks. They paid her over $1 million and are contributing millions more to elect her.”
The former secretary of state collected over $1.8 million in fees for speeches she gave to big banks, including Goldman Sachs, from the time Bill Clinton left the White House until she embarked on her presidential campaign in April 2015. Both Clinton and her opponent Bernie Sanders promise to reform Wall Street if elected, but Sanders has said Clinton cannot adequately regulate the big banks considering her close ties to many of them.
Clinton has said she will release the transcripts of her Wall Street speeches when everybody else does, a claim both Sanders and the New York Times have found confusing. Sanders said he would happily release his speeches, of which there are none, and New York Times released an editorial stating that her excuse of “‘Everybody does it,’ is an excuse expected from a mischievous child, not a presidential candidate.”
“So before you promise your vote to Hillary don’t you deserve to know what she promised them?” the ad concludes.
