Clinton reaps donations after Benghazi appearance

by Jonathan Swan - 10/23/15 11:56 AM ET

Hillary Clinton has already reaped one tangible benefit from her 11-hour Benghazi testimony: cold hard campaign cash.

Clinton’s director of communications, Jennifer Palmieri, told a gaggle of reporters after her boss’s speech to a Democratic National Committee women’s forum Friday morning that Clinton had her best hour of online fundraising during the entire campaign so far. The record money poured in between 9 p.m. and 10 p.m. Thursday, just after the daylong hearing on the 2012 Benghazi attacks had ended, Palmieri said.

{mosads}”People were apparently paying attention and were moved by it [the Benghazi hearing],” Palmieri said, without specifying a dollar figure for the amount of money raised.

Asked whether the Clinton campaign team had been using the former secretary of State’s Benghazi testimony to solicit cash on Thursday night, Palmieri said it had not.

“We had, like, a hashtag ‘I’m with her’, and show you’re with her, show you’re staying with Hillary … but we didn’t ask for money.”

Asked whether it was more than $100,000 raised in the hour, Palmieri said: “I don’t know, but more than 100.”

“My point isn’t ‘wow, we brought in a lot of money,'” she added. “The point is that it moved people.”

“I just thought it was interesting, [the money came in] at 9 o’clock right when they [the Benghazi committee] stopped.”

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