Wasserman Schultz Rips Liberals for Complaining About Obama Wall Street Speech: It’s ‘None of Your Business’

Wasserman Schultz Rips Liberals for Complaining About Obama Wall Street Speech: It’s ‘None Of Your Business’ (The Washington Free Beacon)

Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D., Fla.) defended Barack Obama's six-figure Wall Street pay day by insisting where one gets money as a private citizen is none of anyone else's business.

Wasserman Schultz made her remarks to CNN host Erin Burnett, who was asking the former Democratic National Committee chair about Obama's decision to accept a $400,000 speaking fee to appear at a Wall Street firm's private event. Schultz repeatedly insisted that "the compensation that a private citizen takes for a speech that they give" is not "my concern nor any of our business."

"[Hillary Clinton,] as we all are aware, was slammed during the campaign for taking millions of dollars from Wall Street for paid speeches," Burnett said. "People saw it as hypocritical, people saw it as unfair for someone who said they were going to stand up to the banks. Now President Obama, though, is being criticized by some of your fellow Democrats for his decision to take $400,000 for a single speech to Wall Street."