Clinton admits Wall Street speeches were a ‘mistake’

Published September 12, 2017 11:39am ET



Hillary Clinton admitted in her new book that it “was a mistake” for her to rake in six-figure fees for corporate speeches on Wall Street just before running for president, which both Republicans and Democrats criticized during the campaign.

“I should have realized it would be bad ‘optics’ and stayed away from anything having to do with Wall Street. I didn’t. That’s on me,” she wrote in her book that was released Tuesday, “What Happened.”

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