WikiLeaks’ supposedly damning Clinton revelations actually make her look good

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I’ve read some of WikiLeaks’ supposedly embarrassing revelations about what Hillary Clinton allegedly said in closed-door speeches to bankers, and — quite frankly — she deserves praise for them. In fact, her remarks made me like her better than before.

Clinton’s statements from her paid speeches to Wall Street bankers were part of the thousands of emails hacked from Clinton campaign chairman John Podesta. The Clinton campaign says these hacked emails are a Russian-supported effort by WikiLeaks to help Donald Trump win the U.S. elections.

One of the allegedly devastating revelations that WikiLeaks and the Trump campaign had promoted as among the most damning to Clinton was her statement about free trade supposedly made in a speech to a Brazilian bank in 2013.

In it, she is quoted as saying that “my dream is a hemispheric common market, with open trade and open borders, some time in the future.” She added that “we have to have a concerted plan to increase trade” in the Americas, and that “we have to resist protectionism.”

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