At least the Huffington Post is trying to report fairly...
Republicans, meanwhile, accused Clinton of hypocrisy by noting her hefty speaking fees -- in some cases paid for by firms of the CEOs she blasted -- and her ties to Democratic super PACs. Not to mention the fact that she has a
hedge fund manager in the family.
"It’s pretty rich for Hillary Clinton to lament big money in politics while her campaign chairman and SuperPAC allies are busy courting secretive liberal billionaires in San Francisco," said Republican National Committee spokesman Michael Short.
Hillary Clinton Blasts Pay For CEOs Hedge Fund Managers In Campaign Kickoff
And from Breitbart...
On Monday, pandering to her party’s left-wing that has always distrusted her close ties to Wall Street, Hillary Clinton, who made at least $200,000 per speech since leaving the State Department and is reportedly in the top one-hundredth of the 1%,
attacked CEO pay in an email to supporters, saying that everyday Americans are struggling at a time “when the average CEO makes about 300 times what the average worker makes.”
According to a
Bloomberg report, in the 16 months since leaving the State Department, Clinton “earned at least $12 million” from speaking fees and book contracts. She reportedly made at least $200,000 a speech–the University of Buffalo reportedly paid $275,000 for Clinton to speak at an October 23 event. Bill Clinton, according to the report, has made at least $105 million in speaking fees alone (some speeches reportedly pay as much as $750,000) since leaving the White House. Bloomberg noted that Hillary’s “earnings represent a fraction of the Clinton family’s total income and yet were large enough to rank her not only in the top 1 percent of the nation’s earners but in the top one-hundredth of the 1 percent.”
After Receiving at Least 200K per Speech Hillary Attacks CEO Pay - Breitbart