Clinton Campaign Blames Iowa Tweeter For Hillary's 9/11 Remark Response [View all]

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Andy Grewal @AndyGrewal (Law Professor, University of Iowa)
Is Clinton camp coming after me? "Clinton Campaign Pins 9/11 Remark Response On Twitter User" "http://www.buzzfeed.com/rubycramer/clinton-campaign-pins-911-remark-on-twitter-

from Buzzfeed:

...had Clinton, the day after the terrorist attacks in Paris, referenced the New York City tragedy to rebut a critique from Bernie Sanders about her Wall Street contributions?

No, her campaign said — it was Andy Grewal.

Grewal is the Iowa resident and debate viewer who upon, watching the exchange that led to Clinton’s remark, fired off a disapproving tweet that was featured later in the broadcast. “Have never seen a candidate invoke 9/11 to justify millions of Wall Street donations. Until now,” Grewal’s tweet read.

Andy Grewal ?@AndyGrewal Nov 14 Iowa City, IA
Have never seen a candidate invoke 9/11 to justify millions of Wall Street donations. Until now. @HillaryClinton #DemDebate

When one of the debate’s moderators, CBS News’s Nancy Cordes, read the tweet aloud, Clinton did not push back on the characterization. “I’m sorry that whoever tweeted that had that impression, because I worked closely with New Yorkers after 9/11 for my entire first term to rebuild,” Clinton said.

Clinton’s communications director, Jennifer Palmieri, said that Grewal, the Twitter user, had mischaracterized the remark.

Andy Grewal ?@AndyGrewal
@HillaryClinton comm. director blamed me for "mischaracterization"; will she also blame @nytimes ed board? …nyt on clinton's 9/11 moment

“This is not in response to donations,” Palmieri said. “That is what the person on Twitter did.”

The point, she told reporters after the debate, was that Clinton’s work as a senator in New York wouldn’t make her less likely to pursue Wall Street legislation: “She was senator of New York during 9/11, and I think she was proud to help that industry recover,” said Palmieri. “But when she disagreed with them in 2007, as she did, about the direction the industry was going in, she never afraid to stand up and say she disagreed with them.”

“It was the person on Twitter who connected it to donations. That is not what she did,” she said.

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Andy Grewal ?@AndyGrewal Iowa City, IA
Offer to @HillaryClinton: I will retract my #DemDebate tweet in exchange for 10% of your Wall Street donations.