To be fair, how many Americans would pass up six figures for an hour long speech, even wealthy ones? I have a hard time imagining easier ways to make so much money, so quickly, than that.
This is exactly the problem. I'd rather a candidate fundraise from the citizens and not from big banks in private speeches.
But Hillary was a private citizen when she made those speeches. It wasn't for political fundraising.
Also, if anyone can find one instance where she was bought and paid for by Wall Street while in the Senate, I'll eat my shirt.
Are you telling me that if people from a certain company were giving you hundreds of thousands of dollars in campaign contributions and that when you went to these fundraisers every week, you were sitting there having dinner or drinks or whatever and they were talking to you about their priorities and why you need to vote for policy X/Y/Z, that wouldn't influence you at all?
