Clinton Crime Family, Against Own Party

[Linville]

Ex-DNC chair reveals how Clinton ‘rigged’ Dem primary
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Donna Brazile, former interim chair of the Democratic National Committee, said Hillary Clinton gained control of the political party before she won the presidential nomination in an effort to squeeze out Bernie Sanders.

She began investigating whether Clinton “rigged the nomination process” as emails hacked from the DNC and published by WikiLeaks last year had suggested, she said in an except of her new book coming out next week that appeared Thursday in Politico.

Brazile said she eventually discovered that Clinton had entered into a secret agreement with the Hillary Victory Fund, Hillary for America and the cash-strapped DNC that in exchange for raising funds, Clinton “would control the party’s finances, strategy, and all the money raised.”

The deal also gave her campaign “right of refusal” over who would be the party’s communications director and final say on all other staff.

”The DNC also was required to consult with the campaign about all other staffing, budgeting, data, analytics, and mailings,” Brazile said.

“I had been wondering why it was that I couldn’t write a press release without passing it by Brooklyn. Well, here was the answer,” she said, referring to Clinton’s campaign headquarters in the borough.
With the proof in hand, Brazile said, she had to talk to Sanders.

”I told Bernie I had found Hillary’s Joint Fundraising Agreement. I explained that the cancer was that she had exerted this control of the party long before she became its nominee,” she said about the September 2016 phone call. 
“Had I known this, I never would have accepted the interim chair position, but here we were with only weeks before the election.”
She said the independent from Vermont took the news “stoically.”

“When I hung up the call to Bernie, I started to cry, not out of guilt, but out of anger. We would go forward. We had to,” she said.

Brazile had taken over running the DNC in July after Debbie Wasserman Schultz had been ousted as chairwoman when the leaked emails showed party officials were conspiring to defeat Sanders.

In October 2016, Sanders’ supporters launched a petition to force Brazile to step down from the DNC after emails revealed she gave the Clinton campaign advance questions for a town hall event between Clinton and Sanders.

Brazile’s book, “The Inside Story of the Break-ins and Breakdowns that Put Donald Trump in the White House,” will be published Nov. 7.

Clinton spokesman Nick Merrill tweeted sarcastically, “If you want to be a conspiracy theorist, lets note that HRC campaign conspired to fund the caucuses, majority of which we lost.”
Wasserman-Schultz had no immediate comment.

[Dancing Wolf]

I read about this today.
The trickle has begun and may grow into a raging river (if they protect witnesses from joining the "Clinton Trail of Bodies"...) 

Thanks for posting this article, Linville.

DNC really screwed over Bernie Sanders and his followers to help Hilary, didn't they?
I think Bernie will win his lawsuit against the DNC, there is certainly a lot of evidence the DNC rigged their own primary election against Sanders in favor of Clinton.



Did you see where 4 more Democrats convicted and jailed for tampering with the ballot boxes they were in charge of "protecting" from fraudulent voting?


Neither party respects the voters.


Disgusting.

[Cricket]

I read about this today.
The trickle has begun and may grow into a raging river (if they protect witnesses from joining the "Clinton Trail of Bodies"...) 

Thanks for posting this article, Linville.

DNC really screwed over Bernie Sanders and his followers to help Hilary, didn't they?
I think Bernie will win his lawsuit against the DNC, there is certainly a lot of evidence the DNC rigged their own primary election against Sanders in favor of Clinton.



Did you see where 4 more Democrats convicted and jailed for tampering with the ballot boxes they were in charge of "protecting" from fraudulent voting?


Neither party respects the voters.


Disgusting.

This is why I say votin' is a waste of time. We have NO say and will get whomever cheats the system the best.
They're ALL crooks

Da Bug

[barq2]

Hypothetical question... If Bernie Sanders had the Democrat nomination and it had been Sanders vs Trump, do you think it would have changed the election result?

I understand quite a few Sanders supporters, who liked him as an outsider, didn't go to Clinton, but jumped over to Trump.

[Linville]

Had to say barq. but it surely would have had a much different feel to it.

It is just the idea of how fully corrupt HC is that continues to amaze and how she got the Russian narrative started twisted it to road block anything good might be coming out of the winner.

That this is coming out now by Brazile is a smoke screen I am starting to think anyway.
Because she was involved with so much worse things starting to come out .

And even the money laundering thru the DNC and back to her , if any other had done this , well .
the law should apply blindly across the boards so to speak, but don't we all think that , it just doesn't happen.

It seems like one of those big time wrestling matches that everyone knows is a show.
first the dems then the repubs and us little people take a beatin from all of them.

[Linville]

Donna Brazile: I considered replacing Clinton with Biden as 2016 Democratic nominee


Donna Brazile at the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia on July 26, 2016. (Ricky Carioti/The Washington Post)

Former Democratic National Committee head Donna Brazile writes in a new book that she seriously contemplated setting in motion a process to replace Hillary Clinton as the party’s 2016 presidential nominee with then-Vice President Biden in the aftermath of Clinton’s fainting spell, in part because Clinton’s campaign was “anemic” and had taken on “the odor of failure.”

In an explosive new memoir, Brazile details widespread dysfunction and dissension throughout the Democratic Party, including secret deliberations over using her powers as interim DNC chair to initiate the process of removing Clinton and running mate Sen. Tim Kaine (Va.) from the ticket after Clinton’s Sept. 11, 2016, collapse in New York City.

Brazile writes that she considered a dozen combinations to replace the nominees and settled on Biden and Sen. Cory Booker (N.J.), the duo she felt most certain would win over enough working-class voters to defeat Republican Donald Trump. But then, she writes, “I thought of Hillary, and all the women in the country who were so proud of and excited about her. I could not do this to them.”

Brazile paints a scathing portrait of Clinton as a well-intentioned, historic candidate whose campaign was badly mismanaged, took minority constituencies for granted and made blunders with “stiff” and “stupid” messages. The campaign was so lacking in passion for the candidate, she writes, that its New York headquarters felt like a sterile hospital ward where “someone had died.”



Hillary Clinton at a rally at Arizona State University in Tempe on Nov. 2, 2016. (Melina Mara/The Washington Post)

Brazile alleges that Clinton’s top aides routinely disrespected her and put the DNC on a “starvation diet,” depriving it of funding for voter turnout operations.

As one of her party’s most prominent black strategists, Brazile also recounts fiery disagreements with Clinton’s staffers — including a conference call in which she told three senior campaign officials, Charlie Baker, Marlon Marshall and Dennis Cheng, that she was being treated like a slave.

“I’m not Patsey the slave,” Brazile recalls telling them, a reference to the character played by Lupita Nyong’o in the film, “12 Years a Slave.” 
“Y’all keep whipping me and whipping me and you never give me any money or any way to do my damn job. I am not going to be your whipping girl!”

Cheng, the campaign’s national finance director, did not participate in this call, according to a senior Clinton campaign official.

[Democrats express outrage over allegations of early party control for Clinton]
Brazile’s book, titled 
“Hacks: The Inside Story of the Break-ins and Breakdowns that Put Donald Trump in the White House,” will be released Tuesday by Hachette Books. A copy of the 288-page book was obtained in advance by The Washington Post.

Former Clinton campaign officials strongly disputed some details in Brazile's account as well as her overall characterization of the campaign, and they disparaged her memoir as an effort to sell books and manufacture drama.

More than 100 former senior aides issued an open letter Saturday night reading, “We do not recognize the campaign she portrays in the book.

“We were shocked to learn the news that Donna Brazile actively considered overturning the will of the Democratic voters by attempting to replace Hillary Clinton and Tim Kaine as the Democratic Presidential and Vice Presidential nominees,” the letter began. “It is particularly troubling and puzzling that she would seemingly buy into false Russian-fueled propaganda, spread by both the Russians and our opponent, about our candidate's health.”

Perhaps not since George Stephanopoulos wrote “All Too Human,” a 1999 memoir of his years working for former president Bill Clinton, has a political strategist penned such a blistering tell-all.

In it, Brazile reveals how fissures of race, gender and age tore at the heart of the operation — even as Clinton was campaigning on a message of inclusiveness and trying to assemble a rainbow coalition under the banner of “Stronger Together.”

A veteran operative and television pundit who had long served as DNC’s vice chair, Brazile abruptly and, she writes, reluctantly took over in July 2016 for chairwoman Debbie 

Wasserman Schultz. The Florida congresswoman was ousted from the DNC on the eve of the party convention after WikiLeaks released stolen emails among her and her advisers that showed favoritism for Clinton during the competitive primaries.


Donna Brazile talks with CNN correspondent Dana Bash at the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia on July 25, 2016. Brazile writes that she reluctantly took over as DNC chairwoman that month. (Jabin Botsford/The Washington Post)

Brazile describes her mounting anxiety about Russia’s theft of emails and other data from DNC servers, the slow process of discovering the full extent of the cyberattacks and the personal fallout. 

She likens the feeling to having rats in your basement: “You take measures to get rid of them, but knowing they are there, or have been there, means you never feel truly at peace.”

Brazile writes that she was haunted by the still-unsolved murder of DNC data staffer Seth Rich and feared for her own life, shutting the blinds to her office window so snipers could not see her and installing surveillance cameras at her home. 

She wonders whether Russians had placed a listening device in plants in the DNC executive suite.

At first, Brazile writes of the hacking, top Democratic officials were “encouraging us not to talk about it.” But she says a wake-up moment came when she visited the White House in August 2016, for President Obama’s 55th birthday party. National security adviser Susan E. Rice and former attorney general Eric H. Holder Jr. separately pulled her aside to urge her to take the Russian hacking seriously, which she did, she writes.

That fall, Brazile says she tried to persuade her Republican counterparts to agree to a joint statement condemning Russian interference but that they ignored her messages and calls.
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Backstage at a debate, she writes, she approached Sean Spicer, then-chief strategist for the Republican National Committee, but “I could see his eyes dart away like this was the last thing he wanted to talk to me about.” She asked RNC Chairman Reince Priebus, too, but “I got that special D.C. frost where the person smiles when he sees you but immediately looks past you trying to find someone in the room to come right over and interrupt the conversation.”

There would be no joint statement.

The WikiLeaks releases included an email in which Brazile, a paid CNN contributor at the time, shared potential topics and questions for a CNN town hall in advance with the Clinton campaign. She claims in her book that she did not recall sending the email and could not find it in her computer archives. Nevertheless, she eventually admitted publicly to sending it, believing her reputation would have suffered regardless.

At the Oct. 19 debate in Las Vegas, with the email scandal simmering, the Clinton campaign sat Brazile not in the front row — where she had been at the previous debate — but in bleachers out of view of cameras. She recalls watching the debate with the Rev. Jesse Jackson, “among others whom they had to invite but wanted to tuck away.”

Brazile describes in wrenching detail Clinton’s bout with pneumonia. On Sept. 9, she saw the nominee backstage at a Manhattan gala and she seemed “wobbly on her feet” and had a “rattled cough.” Brazile recommended Clinton see an acupuncturist.

Two days later, Clinton collapsed as she left a Sept. 11 memorial service at Ground Zero in New York. Brazile blasts the campaign’s initial efforts to shroud details of her health as “shameful.”

Whenever Brazile got frustrated with Clinton’s aides, she writes, she would remind them that the DNC charter empowered her to initiate the replacement of the nominee. If a nominee became disabled, she explains, the party chair would oversee a complicated process of filling the vacancy that would include a meeting of the full DNC.

After Clinton’s fainting spell, some Democratic insiders were abuzz with talk of replacing her — and Brazile says she was giving it considerable thought.

The morning of Sept. 12, Brazile got a call from Biden’s chief of staff saying the vice president wanted to speak with her. She recalls thinking, “Gee, I wonder what he wanted to talk to me about?” Jeff Weaver, campaign manager for Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), called, too, to set up a call with his boss, and former Maryland governor Martin O’Malley sent her an email.


Sen. Cory Booker (D-N.J.), left, poses with his mother, Carolyn Booker, and then-Vice President Biden at a Senate swearing-in ceremony at the Capitol on Oct. 31, 2013. (J. Scott Applewhite/Associated Press)

Brazile also was paid a surprise visit in her DNC office by Baker, who, she writes, was dispatched by the Clinton campaign “to make sure that Donna didn’t do anything crazy.”
“Again and again I thought about Joe Biden,” Brazile writes. But, she adds, “No matter my doubts and my fears about the election and Hillary as a candidate, I could not make good on that threat to replace her.”

Neither Baker nor any other senior campaign official were aware that Brazile had any thoughts about or actively contemplated changing the ticket, a senior Clinton campaign official said Saturday.

“Charlie may well have been there to talk her out of doing something crazy, but it certainly was not about this,” said the official, who spoke on the condition of anonymity because of the sensitivity of the matter.

Brazile writes that she inherited a national party in disarray, in part because President Obama, Clinton and Wasserman Schultz were “three titanic egos” who had “stripped the party to a shell for their own purposes.”

Brazile writes that she inherited Wasserman Schultz’s office — with “tropical pink” walls that she found hard on the eyes — and “ridiculous” perks, such as a Chevrolet Tahoe with driver and a personal entourage that included an assistant known as a body woman.

In her first few days on the job, Brazile writes that she also discovered the DNC was $2 million in debt and that the payroll was stacked with “hangers-on and sycophants.” For instance, Wasserman Schultz kept two consulting firms — SKDKnickerbocker and Precision Strategies — each on $25,000-a-month retainers, and one of Obama’s pollsters was still being paid $180,000 a year.



Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-Fla.) at a rally in Coconut Creek, Fla., on Oct. 25, 2016. She resigned as DNC chairwoman on the eve of the party’s national convention that summer. (Melina Mara/The Washington Post)

“The outgoing president no longer needed to assess his approval ratings or his policy decisions, at least not when the Democratic Party was fighting for its survival against a hostile foreign power,” she writes.

Jen O'Malley-Dillon, a partner at Precision Strategies, defended her firm's work for the DNC. “We worked hard to get the party's technology, infrastructure and ground operations in shape for the general election, regardless of the nominee,” she wrote Saturday in an email. “There was no gravy train and we are proud of our work.”

Brazile also details how Clinton effectively took control of the DNC in August 2015, before the primaries began, with a joint fundraising agreement between the party and the Clinton campaign.

She said the deal gave Clinton control over the DNC’s finances, strategy and staff decisions — disadvantaging other candidates, including Sanders. “This was not a criminal act, but as I saw it, it compromised the party’s integrity,” she writes.

An excerpt of this chapter — titled “Bernie, I Found the Cancer” — was published Thursday in Politico, sparking discord and recriminations through the party.

As she traveled the country, Brazile writes, she detected an alarming lack of enthusiasm for Clinton. On black radio stations, few people defended the nominee. 

In Hispanic neighborhoods, the only Clinton signs she saw were at the campaign field offices.
But at headquarters in New York, the mood was one of “self-satisfaction and inevitability,” and Brazile’s early reports of trouble were dismissed with “a condescending tone.”

Brazile describes the 10th floor of Clinton’s Brooklyn headquarters, where senior staff worked: “Calm and antiseptic, like a hospital. 
It had that techno-hush, as if someone had died. I felt like I should whisper. Everybody’s fingers were on their keyboards, and no one was looking at anyone else. You half-expected to see someone in a lab coat walk by.”


Staffers at Hillary Clinton headquarters in Brooklyn watch a GOP debate on Sept. 16, 2015. (Melina Mara/The Washington Post)

During one visit, she writes, she thought of a question former Democratic congressman Tony Coelho used to ask her about campaigns: “Are the kids having sex? Are they having fun? If not, let’s create something to get that going, or otherwise we’re not going to win.”
“I didn’t sense much fun or [having sex] in Brooklyn,” she deadpans.

Brazile writes that Clinton campaign manager Robby Mook and his lieutenants were so obsessed with voter data and predictive analytics that they “missed the big picture.”

“They knew how to size up voters not by meeting them and finding out what they cared about, what moved their hearts and stirred their souls, but by analyzing their habits,” she writes. “You might be able to persuade a handful of Real Simplemagazine readers who drink gin and tonics to change their vote to Hillary, but you had not necessarily made them enthusiastic enough to want to get up off the couch and go to the polls.”

Brazile describes Mook, in his mid-30s, as overseeing a patriarchy. “They were all men in his inner circle,” she writes, adding: “He had this habit of nodding when you are talking, leaving you with the impression that he has listened to you, but then never seeming to follow up on what you thought you had agreed on.”

Many of Clinton’s senior staff were women, including Mook’s chief of staff, as well as campaign co-chair Huma Abedin.

Brazile’s criticisms were not reserved for Mook. After Clinton campaign communications director Jennifer Palmieri challenged Brazile’s plan for Kaine to deliver a pep talk to DNC staff at the party convention in Philadelphia, Brazile writes, “I was thinking, If that b---- ever does anything like that to me again, I’m gonna walk.”

Palmieri on Saturday disputed Brazile's account, tweeting: “Sad to learn she feels this way about me. Don't recall request she refers to.”


Clinton campaign manager Robby Mook, right, and his lieutenants are described in the book as being so obsessed with voter data that they “missed the big picture.” Mook is seen on the campaign plane on Oct. 28, 2016. (Melina Mara/The Washington Post)

Brazile writes with particular disdain about Brandon Davis, a Mook protege who worked as a liaison between the DNC and the Clinton campaign. She describes him as a spy, saying he treated her like “a crazy, senile old auntie and couldn’t wait to tell all his friends the nutty things she said.”

In staff meetings, Brazile recalls, “Brandon often rolled his eyes as if I was the stupidest woman he’d ever had to endure on his climb to the top. He openly scoffed at me, snorting sometimes when I made an observation.”

Brazile opens her book by describing the painful days following Clinton’s defeat. She received calls of gratitude from party leaders but still felt slighted.

“I never heard from Hillary,” she writes. “I knew what I wanted to say to her and it was: I have nothing but respect for you being so brave and classy considering everything that went on. But in the weeks after the loss, every time I checked my phone thinking I might have missed her call, it wasn’t her.”

Finally, in February 2017, Clinton rang.

“This was chitchat, like I was talking to someone I didn’t know,” Brazile writes. “I know Hillary. I know she was being as sincere as possible, but I wanted something more from her.”

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Oh she, (Donne Brazille) still liked HC enough to do this, 

or was this before she found out she did not like HC.?


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Brazile under siege after giving Clinton debate question
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[color=rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.65098)]Trump: Donna Brazile 'should be fired from the DNC' 
Donald Trump talks about Donna Brazile on Monday. 



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Donna Brazile came to the Democratic National Committee to steady a ship rocked by an email hacking scandal and under fire for allegedly favoring Hillary Clinton during the primary process. 
Now, thanks to a new email hacking scandal, the DNC’s interim chair is at the center of a controversy of her own — with Clinton’s campaign again caught in the mix.

After hacked emails published Monday by WikiLeaks appeared to reveal Brazile, during her time as a CNN commentator, giving advance notice to Clinton’s camp about a debate questions, 
...Brazile has lost a CNN contract (which had been suspended since Brazile took over the DNC in July) and found herself used as fodder for one of Donald Trump’s favorite talking points: that in this “rigged” election, the DNC has been in the bag for Clinton since the beginning.

“And speaking of draining the swamp, Donna Brazile did it again. 
WikiLeaks, today. 
She gave the questions to a debate to Hillary Clinton and that was from a couple of weeks ago.

 Happened again, but this time far worse. 
She gave the questions to the debate to Hillary Clinton. Now, they’re all blaming Donna Brazile and frankly, I think she just got fired from the network. 
She should be fired from the DNC,” Trump said at a rally in Michigan on Monday.

Typically, network debate and town hall questions are created in strict confidence. At CNN, they call it ”the cone of silence” and questions are not even emailed to one another for fear of leaks. 

But clearly, Brazile had other methods. Now the hacked emails show that Brazile, on two separate instances, tipped off the Clinton campaign ahead of time on questions that might come her way at CNN events.

In the first instance, ahead of a March 13 CNN town hall, it appears that guest-moderator Roland Martin from TV One may have shared his contributions to the questions with Brazile. In an email the day before the town hall to senior Clinton staffers, Brazile wrote: “From time to time I get the questions in advance” and included the text of a question about the death penalty. 

An email later obtained by POLITICO showed that the text of the question Brazile sent to the Clinton campaign was identical to a proposed question Martin had offered CNN. (A similar, though not identical question, was ultimately posed to Clinton at the town hall). 
The Martin connection was seemingly cemented on Monday when WikiLeaks published more of that thread, featuring a newly released reply in which Brazile promises to send additional questions.

“I’ll send a few more,” Brazile wrote, adding, “Though some questions Roland submitted.” 
Martin initially denied sharing his questions with anyone, but later said his executive producer and team at TV One had the questions in order to pass them on to the CNN team.

 Once POLITICO obtained further emails, Martin said he didn’t believe he consulted with Brazile about the questions. Martin did not return a request for comment on Monday. 
According to CNN’s statement on Monday, Brazile formally resigned as a contributor from CNN on Oct. 14, just two days after news broke of the leaked town hall question. But no one knew Brazile and CNN had severed ties until Monday, when a new email further provided damming evidence — and new inquiries for the television network — that Brazile was tipping the Clinton campaign off during the primaries. 

In the newest email, sent one day before the March 6 Democratic primary debate in Flint, Michigan, Brazile tells senior campaign staff that “One of the questions directed to HRC tomorrow is from a woman with a rash. Her family has lead poison and she will ask what, if anything, will Hillary do as president to help the ppl of Flint.”

In her email, Brazile indicated that Flint was an important personal cause. “Folks, I did a service project today. It's so tragic. And what’s worse, some homes have not been tested and it’s important to encourage seniors to also get tested,” she said.

The next night, a woman named Lee-Anne Walters asked both candidates a very similar question.

“After my family, the city of Flint and the children in D.C. were poisoned by lead, will you make a personal promise to me right now that, as president, in your first 100 days in office, you will make it a requirement that all public water systems must remove all lead service lines throughout the entire United States, and notification made to the — the citizens that have said service lines,” the town hall attendee asked. 

That the candidates would get a question about how they would help the people of Flint if elected president would have come as no surprise at the debate, which was purposely in Flint to highlight the city’s water problems. A CNN employee, speaking on background, suggested to POLITICO on Monday that Brazile may have met the woman who was set to ask the question at the service project she refers to in the email, but it’s not clear whether the person was Walters or someone else. 

But wherever Brazile got the questions from, the email’s posting on Monday by WikiLeaks was the final straw, at least publicly for Brazile and CNN. CNN announced that Brazile had actually previously resigned and said they were “completely uncomfortable” with what they learned in the emails.

“CNN never gave Brazile access to any questions, prep material, attendee list, background information or meetings in advance of a town hall or debate,” CNN spokeswoman Lauren Pratapas said in a statement. “We are completely uncomfortable with what we have learned about her interactions with the Clinton campaign while she was a CNN contributor.” 

A CNN spokesperson did not respond to follow-up questions as to why Brazile’s Oct. 14 resignation was not announced until Monday, although networks typically don’t publicly announce when commentators have severed contracts unless specifically asked.

To be fair, it’s possible that Brazile was also tipping off Sen. Bernie Sanders’ campaign off about coming debate questions. 

The Sanders campaign (and all of the Republican candidates and the Republican National Committee for that matter) has not fallen victim to the same hacks as the Clinton campaign. While a DNC spokesman did not respond to specific questions about whether Brazile also tipped off the Sanders campaign, Sanders’ former national press secretary offered only glowing praise for Brazile in an email on Monday. 

“I can’t speak to what she did or didn’t send to Clinton people. All I can speak to is the relationship our camp had with her,” said Symone Sanders, who worked on Bernie Sanders’ presidential campaign, in an email. 

“During the primary, Donna regular reached out for messaging guidance from us and was very helpful. She was even-handed and we all had a great working relationship with her. Clearly the same can’t be said about our campaign and other people in the Party. Donna Brazile is one of the reasons the Democratic National Committee was able to move forward following the convention and she is the reason many people like myself have a seat at the table today.”

The White House also expressed support, with press secretary Josh Earnest saying President Barack Obama believes Brazile “has done a fine job stepping in during a very difficult situation to lead the Democratic Party.”

“Look, those of us who have known Donna a long time, know that she is a person of integrity and she is a person of high character. She is a true professional who is a tenacious and effective advocate for Democrats,” Earnest said on Monday.

Asked for a comment about Monday’s developments, a DNC spokesman referred to Brazile’s earlier statement from Oct. 11. 

“As a longtime political activist with deep ties to our party, I supported all of our candidates for president. I often shared my thoughts with each and every campaign, and any suggestions that indicate otherwise are simply untrue. 

As it pertains to the CNN Debates, I never had access to questions and would never have shared them with the candidates if I did,” Brazile said, noting that the U.S. intelligence community has “made it clear that the Russian government is responsible for the cyberattacks aimed at interfering without election.”

“We are in the process of verifying the authenticity of these documents because it is common for Russia to spread misinformation and forge documents, but we cannot bow down to Putin’s wishes and allow foreign actors to try and divide our country with the hope of affecting the outcome on Election Day,” Brazile continued. “There is too much at stake.”
Daniel Strauss contributed to this report.

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So she, DB  denied for over a year what is now the truth so can we believe her book anyway .

Making money and creating a diversion might be the intent here but pure speculation of course.

The history of her and Wasserman together rigging it to favor HC is appalling

[Lechter]

When Donna Brazile gets to choose candidates, you know your Party has a problem.

Question is, do the dems know?

Their transformation into "the resistance" seems to indicate a greater interest in obstruction than in the country they wish to lead.

[Linville]