Bernie Sanders has accepted Hillary Clinton’s challenge to release the transcripts of speeches he has given to Wall Street firms.
But there’s one caveat — there are none.
“Sen. Sanders accepts Clinton’s challenge. He will release all of the transcripts of all of his Wall Street speeches. That’s easy,” Sanders’ spokesman Michael Briggs said Friday in a press release. The fact is, there weren’t any. Bernie gave no speeches to Wall Street firms. He wasn’t paid anything while Secretary Clinton made millions, including $675,000 for three paid speeches to Goldman Sachs.”
The pressure has been on Clinton to release the transcripts of the nearly 100 paid speeches she gave from 2013 to early 2015 to groups including Wall Street firms and big corporations. According to reports, she was paid $21.7 million in fees for the speeches.
“So now we hope Secretary Clinton keeps her word and releases the transcripts of her speeches. We hope she agrees that the American people deserve to know what she told Wall Street behind closed doors,” Briggs added.
During a MSNBC-Telemundo town hall Thursday in Las Vegas , Clinton said she would hand over the transcripts once other public officials do the same.
“I’m happy to release anything I have when everybody else does the same,” Clinton said.
The trolling by Sanders started immediately after Clinton’s comments.
Late Thursday night, Sanders tweeted out a link to a 2011 talk of his in which he discussed his nearly nine-hour-long speech on the Senate floor in 2010 on the middle class that was published into a book.
This is what a paid @BernieSanders speech looks like:https://t.co/g0AaUEu4yn
Don’t worry. The $500 payout was given to charity.— Bernie Sanders (@BernieSanders) February 19, 2016
“This is what a paid @BernieSanders speech looks like,” the tweet reads. “Don’t worry. The $500 payout was given to charity.”
According to a recent poll for the Washington Free Beacon, over 75 percent of undecided voters say that Clinton’s paid speeches make them less likely to vote for her.
