Hillary Clinton has never said anything in private that she hasn’t said publicly, her campaign chairman said Sunday, despite leaked transcripts showing her supporting open borders and open trade in closed-door speeches to Wall Street executives.
“She said all throughout this campaign she will crack down on Wall Street,” John Podesta told Fox News.
“There’s nothing that she said that she hasn’t said in private that she doesn’t say in public,” he continued. “She’s put forward the most aggressive Wall Street plan of any candidate.”
Thousands of Podesta’s emails dating back to the 2008 election cycle were published in a document dump on Friday by the activist group WikiLeaks. Included in the emails were excerpts from speeches Clinton delivered to Goldman Sachs and other financial firms in which she advocated for open borders and open trade and said you need “both a public and a private position” on every issue.
The former secretary of state also told Goldman Sachs employees that it was an “oversimplification” to blame the 2008 global financial crisis on U.S. banks and Wall Street.
“People on Wall Street know how to game the system, what she wants to do is crack down on the system make sure that there’s no institution too big to fail and there’s no person that’s too big to jail,” Podesta said in his defense of Clinton.
Clinton is likely to face questions about the comments she made in speeches to Wall Street during the second presidential debate Sunday night. The event will air at 9 p.m. ET from Washington University in St. Louis, Mo.
