“Democrats Are Fuming About Hillary Clinton’s ‘Smear’ Line”

Zach Carter:

“If [Clinton] takes the money, she gets hit with this McCarthyism of the left, this guilt by association, even though there is no evidence that taking this money has had any impact on her policies,” former Rep. Barney Frank (D-Mass.) told Politico last week.

Back when Clinton wasn’t facing a tough primary challenge, Frank suggested that it was impossible for politicians to avoid being influenced by donors.

“People say, ‘Oh, [the money] doesn’t have any effect on me,'” Frank told NPR in 2012. “Well, if that were the case, we’d be the only human beings in the history of the world who, on a regular basis, took significant amounts of money from perfect strangers and made sure that it had no effect on our behavior.”

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