Obama in 2009: ‘I Didn’t Run for Office To Be Helping out a Bunch Fat Cat Bankers on Wall St.’

‘They’re still puzzled why it is that people are mad at the banks’

Apr 25, 2017 9:01 PM

By Grabien Staff

Barack Obama in a December 2009 "60 Minutes" interview:

"[Wall Street bankers] don’t get it. They’re still puzzled why it is that people are mad at the banks. Well, let’s see. You guys are drawing down $10 million, $20 million bonuses after America went through the worst economic year that it’s gone through in decades, and you guys caused the problem.

I did not run for office to be helping out a bunch fat cat bankers on Wall Street."

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