In an interview with The Hill’s Molly Hooper, the former Republican presidential nominee was asked what surprised him about the current election season. He replied, “Everything,” citing Hillary Clinton’s admission that she had received a whopping $650,000 in speaking fees from the investment bank Goldman Sachs (because “that’s what they offered“) to the establishment’s underestimation of Americans’ anger over income inequality.

— Posted by Natasha Hakimi Zapata

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