Hillary Clinton’s campaign on Sunday defended her donations from Wall Street by saying she worked to help the financial sector rebuild after the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks and sought to address the abuses that led to an economic crisis.
During the second Democratic debate on Saturday, Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders put Clinton on the defensive when he said Wall Street had been the major contributor to her campaigns. “Now maybe they’re dumb and they don’t know what they’re going to get, but I don’t think so,” he said.
Clinton accused Sanders of trying to “impugn my integrity” and said that as a New York senator, she helped New York City’s financial hub rebuild. “That was good for New York and it was good for the economy and it was a way to rebuke the terrorists who had attacked our country,” she said, her voice rising.
Her debate response drew an incredulous reaction on social media sites like Twitter, and the debate’s moderators asked Clinton to respond to one Twitter user, who took issue with her mention of 9/11 to justify the contributions.
The exchange highlighted one of Sanders’ main critiques of Clinton: That she has maintained close ties to Wall Street executives during her political career and would be less forceful in policing the risky behavior of financial firms that Sanders says led to the economic downturn in 2008 and 2009.
When Clinton raised Wall Street donations along with 9/11, her Democratic rivals quickly pounced. In the post-debate “spin room,” former Maryland Gov. Martin O’Malley told reporters, “I’ll let her answer that gaffe. I think it was one of the biggest ones of the night.”
Republicans said Clinton had hidden shamefully behind the 9/11 attacks to deflect attention from her ties to her wealthiest donors. And they signaled that the response would likely find its way into advertising if Clinton becomes the Democratic nominee.
“It’s an intersection between stupid and offensive, and I think that’s going to be a big problem as the campaign heads into the general election,” said Sean Spicer, the Republican National Committee’s chief strategist.
The Associated Press contributed to this article.
Hillary Clinton has no integrity to impugn.
This woman, just like her husband, will sell anything to the highest bidder. Many of our problems now can be tied to Bill’s selling national secrets to China. It was under Bill Clinton’s watch that al Qaeda began and grew. The groundwork for 9/11 didn’t begin after George W Bush’s inauguration. It began years earlier. It came on the radar during Bill Clinton’s term when Islamic terrorists tried to blow up the World Trade Center. The Clinton administration naively treated it as a criminal action rather than as a terrorist action.
Bill came out after the debates and said stop being so mean to Hillary. Ha ha. He still needs his money.
That’s for sure. He has to come and bail her out.
This is too true. How is it that too many people don’t know about this treason? It needs to be out for the public to seem these two for what they are.
There is No trust, credibility, accountability, truthfulness, or faith in her abilities whatsoever!
Agree. Who would want her in charge of a pending war? She would sell us all out.
Even the Democrats are calling Hillary out for her lies. Most don’t want her in the White House anymore than the Republicans do. How do you think a little know junior senator beat her in 2008? Hillary has been well know for scandals and corruption for many years.
I wold not cast my vote for her if she were to be the last living soul in America!
NOR would I!!!!
Nor would I.
Agree completely. She will never get my vote. And she will certainly never get any contributions from this house!
Dump Hillary the d*** she is a DEMORAT of copy cat that doesn’t know the different from S*** to S*** with our counrty is a Obama Lover Boy
It would be helpful if you would take the marbles out of your typing fingers, Skipper.
Hillary, Obama, Kerry, Biden,Holder, most of the Democratic party, and the Rino’s we’re working for a corporation in the private sector they would’ve been placed in a federal penitentiary and the key thrown away by now. They are all lying, murdering,thieving,crook’s and should of been dealt with along time ago.
Will the American People ever wake up!!! She’ll lie, cheat and steal to get into the white house.
She is a NUT!
She talks in circles,
Because she doesn’t know how to tell the truth, she spins it.
The Democrats really need to clean house. All of the ones you have named are part of the evil, neo-liberal, socialist, world-government fiasco that emanates from Europe. They are either opportunistic crooks (the Clintons) or soft-headed socialists who are convinced that world government will solve all the world’s problems (as if!). The free market, nation-state system has been of great benefit to the world. “World-wide socialism” has been a disaster from the beginning. The European money masters have utilized the former in order to make enormous sums of money, even while working to systematically dismantle it and go in the direction of tyranny with them at the top of the heap. The Republicans also need to clean house and get rid of the neo-Conservatives (like the Bushes) who are ALSO working toward world government. They just want it to have only Americans at the top. They are all working toward destabilizing the present system (why do you think the Western nations are being flooded with illegal immigrants and “refugees:”?). The only true conservative (i.e., someone who is dedicated to conserving what we have) is Marco Rubio but the money power will not allow him to take the nomination, much less the presidency. They would rather see Hillary in the White House because she is their man. They would likely even allow Trump or Carson, because they know that they can work around them but Rubio would be a force to be reckoned with and they will pull out all the stops to prevent him from getting the nomination by inventing nonsense allegations in a ridiculous double standard. They magnify Rubio mistakes (like the “credit card” non-issue) and minimize the very real evidence of Clinton corruption that has been a pattern for many years. They know that Rubio is the only one who could stand up to Hillary in a Presidential debate. None of the others in the Republican field have any gravitas except for Cruz and they know that he is no threat because he will be seen as too right-wing for most American voters. They prefer those who are more moderate. Rubio is the only present candidate who could beat Hillary.
Have yiu ever heard if
hohohohahahahheeheehahoho these ideas sound like Bill – er – wait a minute – maybe not .. guess it takes two to tango .hhahahah
I cannot believe he commented on his speech this am that ISIS is not Muslim
LIAR. LIAR
Hillary Clinton accused Sanders of trying to “impugn her integrity”. Sorry… But, she has done that all by herself….
HILLARY, IS A LIBERAL DEMOCRAT, SHE LIKE OBAMA WILL LEAD US INTO COMMUNISUM.
THE OBAMA ADMINISTATION, ALREADY HAS US INTO SOCIALISIM AND IF THE DEMOCRATS
HAVE A SAYIT WOULD BE, LIBERALISM-SOCIALISUM-COMMUNISIUM.
These idiots democrats’ need to ask Putin about communism. he had said on many occassions, communism almost nearly destroyed russia, that’s what these idoits like the clintons ‘ and their rat Ass democrats want to do to our country. they are scared to death of Donald Trump. They know he will get rid of them
Trump for President with Rubio for Vice President, and them President himself when Don has done his two terms and made America GREAT again! Wow! That’s a dream! Let’s hope it comes true! What a shame I can’t vote over there! We have an awful choice here, Cameron or Corbyn, if the Labour party don’t throw him out before the next election. Do you want to be shot or hung? Neither thanks. Give me UKIP or the BNP.