That set off a social media furor about how bizarre it was to evoke 9/11 as an excuse for taking big bucks from the big banks. As many have pointed out, the excuse simply won’t hold. Wall Street donors blessed Hillary and Bill with big bucks long before 9/11 and long after – and they got value for their investments.

Bill Clinton made former Goldman Sachs head Robert Rubin head of his economic council and then Treasury Secretary, and joined Rubin in driving banking deregulation – repeal of Glass-Steagall, prohibitions on regulating derivatives and more. Wall Street invested heavily in Hillary’s Senate race. And as senator, Hillary defended their interests, including a vote for the deplorable Bankruptcy Reform Act that favored the banks’ credit card operations over consumers. Wall Street has proved a leading donor to the Clinton Foundation and helped to build the Clintons’ personal fortunes. In 2013 alone, Hillary made over $3 million personally from giving speeches to various Wall Street forums. Wall Street banks and investment houses made up a third of her total speech income, while providing some $17 million in campaign contributions over the years.
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William D. Cohan, author of “Money and Power: How Goldman Sachs Came to Rule the World,” interviewed dozens of Wall Street’s leaders on their reaction to Clinton’s newfound populism:

“Down on Wall Street they don’t believe it for a minute. While the finance industry does genuinely hate Warren, the big bankers love Clinton, and by and large they badly want her to be president. Many of the rich and powerful in the financial industry—among them, Goldman Sachs CEO Lloyd Blankfein, Morgan Stanley CEO James Gorman, Tom Nides, a powerful vice chairman at Morgan Stanley, and the heads of JPMorganChase and Bank of America—consider Clinton a pragmatic problem-solver not prone to populist rhetoric. To them, she’s someone who gets the idea that we all benefit if Wall Street and American business thrive. What about her forays into fiery rhetoric? They dismiss it quickly as political maneuvers. None of them think she really means her populism.” (emphasis added)