The following editorial appears on Bloomberg View:

It’s nice work if you can get it: In 2013, after stepping down as secretary of state, Hillary Clinton earned $9.7 million in speaking fees -- a lot of it from banks and investment firms, including $675,000 for three speeches to Goldman Sachs.

Those three speeches are not on her campaign website, but it’s a pretty good bet they had a different tone than the one she is now taking. Asked about them at a New Hampshire town hall meeting this week, her response started out merely vague -- “Look, I made speeches to lots of groups” -- befor...