--- description: The former Secretary of State said O'Malley had " no trouble going to Wall Street" when he was running the Democratic Governors' Association title: Clinton Hits Back at O'Malley Over Wall Street Donations image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltda3ac39e756329bf/6988763de20a8704fca8ebfb/clinton-omalley.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  * [Politics](/section/politics/) ## Politics Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close * [Debates](/tag/debates/) ## Debates Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close # Clinton Hits Back at O'Malley Over Wall Street Donations by [Maya Rhodan](/author/maya-rhodan/) ## Maya Rhodan Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Dec 20, 2015 3:43 AM CUT  Hillary Clinton, left, speaks as fellow candidate Martin O'Malley listens during the Democratic Presidential Debate hosted by ABC News at Saint Anselm College in Manchester, New Hampshire, on Dec. 19, 2015. Hillary Clinton, left, speaks as fellow candidate Martin O'Malley listens during the Democratic Presidential Debate hosted by ABC News at Saint Anselm College in Manchester, New Hampshire, on Dec. 19, 2015.Jewel Samad—AFP/Getty Images by [Maya Rhodan](/author/maya-rhodan/) ## Maya Rhodan Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Dec 20, 2015 3:43 AM CUT Martin O’Malley hit Hillary Clinton over an answer — from the last debate. The former Maryland governor criticized Clinton for her ties to Wall Street, bringing up her response to a question on the topic at the Nov. 14 debate, when she noted that she worked with Wall Street firms after the Sept. 11 attacks. “I have demonstrated the ability have the backbone to take on Wall Street in ways Secretary Clinton never ever has,” O’Malley said Saturday. “In fact, in the last debate, very shamefully, she tried to hide her cozy relationship with Wall Street big banks by invoking the attacks of 9/11.” **Read More:** [_Hillary Clinton Invokes 9/11 to Deflect Questions About Wall Street Ties_](http://time.com/4113521/democratic-debate-hillary-clinton-september-11/ "undefined") In the previous debate, Clinton said she “spent a lot of time” in downtown Manhattan and on Wall Street during rebuilding efforts after the 9/11 terror attacks. “That was good for New York. It was good for the economy, and it was a way to rebuke the terrorists who had attacked our country,” she said then. Clinton punched back Saturday after O’Malley’s comment, overriding moderators to respond. Clinton said “two hedge fund billionaires” are running ads against her in New Hampshire because of the threat she poses. The candidate also argued that the majority of her financial support thus far is coming from “students and teachers.” She also challenged the governor’s own relationship with Wall Street, especially during 2011 and 2012, when he was chair of the Democratic Governors Association, which raises money to support Democrats running for governor across the country. “When Governor O’Malley was heading the Democratic Governors Association he had no trouble at all going to Wall Street to raise money to run campaigns for Democratic governors,” she said. **Read More:** [_Hillary Clinton Fends Off Attacks At Democratic Debate_](http://time.com/4155432/democratic-debate-third-data-breach/?xid=homepage "undefined") ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4156198/democratic-debate-hillary-clinton-martin-omalley-wall-street/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4156198/democratic-debate-hillary-clinton-martin-omalley-wall-street/"},"headline":"Clinton Hits Back at O'Malley Over Wall Street Donations","datePublished":"2015-12-20T03:43:10.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-22T13:31:34.999Z","description":"The former Secretary of State said O'Malley had \" no trouble going to Wall Street\" when he was running the Democratic Governors' Association","url":"https://time.com/4156198/democratic-debate-hillary-clinton-martin-omalley-wall-street/","keywords":["Debates","Hillary Clinton","wall street","Banks","Martin O'malley","Democratic debate"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltda3ac39e756329bf/6988763de20a8704fca8ebfb/clinton-omalley.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Maya Rhodan","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/maya-rhodan/"}],"articleSection":"Politics","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltda3ac39e756329bf/6988763de20a8704fca8ebfb/clinton-omalley.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"US-VOTE-DEMOCRATS-DEBATE","caption":"US-VOTE-DEMOCRATS-DEBATE","creditText":"Jewel Samad—AFP/Getty Images","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/politics/","name":"Politics"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/debates/","name":"Debates"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4156198/democratic-debate-hillary-clinton-martin-omalley-wall-street/","name":"Clinton Hits Back at O'Malley Over Wall Street Donations"}}]}] ```