Donald Trump’s campaign on Sunday called on Hillary Clinton to release the full transcript of speeches she delivered in exchange for six-figure sums, following their purported publication by WikiLeaks.
“Secretary Clinton, on Friday emails were released purportedly from campaign chairman John Podesta,” communications adviser Jason Miller said in a statement released Sunday morning. “These emails contain partial transcripts from private speeches you gave, including calling for open borders and a shared common market.
“Your campaign refuses to state whether or not these emails are legitimate. Will you release the full transcripts for the sake of transparency?” Miller asked.
WikiLeaks released the transcripts allegedly obtained from a personal email account held by Podesta, who served as former President Bill Clinton’s chief of staff from 1998-2001 and who is now heading Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign.
The emails revealed Clinton saying in one speech that it was her “dream” to have a “hemispheric common market, with open trade and open borders.”
Clinton has been criticized over the course of the campaign for refusing to release the transcripts of speeches she delivered following her time at the State Department. The campaign and Democratic National Committee have remained insistent that she will not release those transcripts, despite their alleged publication by WikiLeaks.
“I refuse to open these documents,” DNC Chairman Donna Brazile said in an interview Sunday, before attributing blame for their publication to hacking by Russia. “I refuse to allow a foreign government, foreign companies to manipulate information, so I don’t know if it’s true or not true … They have been selectively leaking and manipulating documents.”
