Hillary Clinton is continuing to make a hash of transparency when it comes to her Wall Street ties, according to a bluntly worded report from The Intercept's Lee Fang.
In a joint piece coauthored with Henrik Moltke, Fang ripped into Clinton's spokesman Nick Merrill for not disclosing how much money Goldman Sachs CEO Lloyd Blankfein had invested with Eaglevale Partners. Eaglevale is a hedge fund founded by Clinton's son-in-law Marc Mezvinsky.
When Fang attempted to ask about Blankfein's relationship with Eaglevale at a San Francisco rally, he was stoned walled by Merrill, as footage uploaded to The Intercept shows. In the video Clinton and her entourage are blitzed by reporters as Fang repeats his question multiple times, only to be left high and dry.
The haze that surrounds Clinton's connections to one of the world's largest multinational banking firms shows no sign of clearing.
As Fang reports:
Clinton has dodged questions about her relationship with Goldman Sachs throughout the campaign. In January, we were the first to ask Clinton if she would release the transcripts of her paid speeches to Goldman Sachs. She responded by laughing and turning away. Since our question, other media outlets, including the New York Times editorial board, have called on Clinton to release the transcripts.
Fang also points out that previous responses from the Clinton campaign have involved smoke and mirrors:
Clinton at times tried to conflate the money she received with campaign finance donations to Barack Obama — though the issues are separate; Obama never personally profited from paid speeches before running for president.
Clinton's credibility with left-wing activists took another hit when it was revealed that Bernie Sanders had made less than $2,000 from paid speeches last year.