Fact checking the Clinton-Sanders spat over Big Oil contributions
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“I have money from people who work for fossil-fuel companies. I am so sick — I am so sick of the Sanders campaign lying about me.”
— Hillary Clinton, to a Greenpeace activist, March 31, 2016
“The fact of the matter is Secretary Clinton has taken significant money from the fossil fuel industry. She raises her money with a super PAC. She gets a lot of money from Wall Street, from the drug companies and fossil fuel industry.”
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