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HILLARY CLINTON ROBBED BERNIE SANDERS OF THE DEMOCRATIC NOMINATION, ACCORDING TO DONNA BRAZILE

  

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Via:  hd-h-u  •  9 years ago  •  12 comments

HILLARY CLINTON ROBBED BERNIE SANDERS OF THE DEMOCRATIC NOMINATION, ACCORDING TO DONNA BRAZILE

Hillary Clinton’s campaign took over the Democratic National Committee's funding and day-to-day operations early in the primary season and may have used that power to undermine her rival Senator Bernie Sanders, according to the party's one-time interim chairwoman.

The DNC official, Donna Brazile, now a political analyst, wrote in   Politico Magazine  on Thursday that she discovered an August 2015 agreement between the national committee and Clinton’s campaign and fundraising arm that gave Clinton “control (of) the party’s finances, strategy, and all the money raised” in exchange for taking care of the massive debt leftover from President Barack Obama’s 2012 campaign.

It wasn't illegal, Brazile said, "but it sure looked unethical."

"If the fight had been fair, one campaign would not have control of the party before the voters had decided which one they wanted to lead," Brazile wrote. "This was not a criminal act, but as I saw it, it compromised the party’s integrity."

Brazile wrote that she had “promised” Sanders to find out if the DNC had intentionally “rigged” the primary system in order to prop up Clinton and assure she became the nominee. That assertion first popped up after the DNC’s emails, hacked by Russians, had been published online and showed former DNC Chairwoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz and others may have tipped the scales for the Democrat Clinton versus Sanders, an independent seeking the Democratic Party nod.

“I had tried to search out any other evidence of internal corruption that would show that the DNC was rigging the system to throw the primary to Hillary, but I could not find any in party affairs or among the staff,” Brazile wrote. "I was happy to see that I had found none. Then I found this agreement.”

Brazile,   a former CNN contributor   who was later dismissed after it was discovered she had forked over debate questions to Clinton’s campaign, claimed when she took over as party chairwoman, the DNC was $24 million in debt. Clinton’s campaign, according to Brazile, assumed that debt with its own fundraising.

“Hillary for America (the campaign) and the Hillary Victory Fund (its joint fundraising vehicle with the DNC) had taken care of 80 percent of the remaining debt in 2016, about $10 million, and had placed the party on an allowance,” according to Brazile.

Normally, candidates take over their respective party’s operations after securing the nomination, but Brazile wrote Clinton had done so almost 15 months before last year’s election.

The timeline of when all this allegedly occurred was not fully explained by Brazile, but she wrote that the discovery was made “weeks” before the election. She said she told Sanders what she found out and that he took the supposed information “stoically.”

Brazile   took over as interim DNC chair , a spot now officially held by Tom Perez, back in July 2016 after Wasserman Schultz resigned.

http://www.newsweek.com/clinton-robbed-sanders-dnc-brazile-699421


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Sean Treacy
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2  Sean Treacy    9 years ago

The best part of the excerpt is her "Shock!" that Hillary was acting unethically. 

 
 
 
Sparty On
Professor Guide
3  Sparty On    9 years ago

This isn't news to anyone that had a pulse in the last year or so.   Hillary is crook.   Duh!

Can you imagine what the left wing outrage would be like if the Trump campaign had done something like this with the RNC.   We'd have some here on NT pissing their pants over it that's for sure.

Serenity now!

 
 
 
Sean Treacy
Professor Principal
4  Sean Treacy    9 years ago

Brazile also brutalizes Debbie wassermna Schultz as well.  She was incredibly corrupt while running the DNC into the ground.

no wonder Hillary gave her a job so quickly.

 
 
 
sixpick
Professor Quiet
5  sixpick    9 years ago

How anyone can act like this is news now is beyond me.  Back when it was happening, poll workers in California made videos of the corruption going on and the Democrats on here ignored it and criticized anyone suggsting it was true.

I guess with Hillary controllng the money for the DNC,  we can assume colluding with the Russians was part of the budget.

If they were to truly investigate her, her campaign and the foundation 10% as much as they have been determined to investigate Trump,  I'm sure their time would not be wasted, but being investigated by your fellow crooks just doesn't get the dirt out.

 
 
 
True American Pat
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5.1  True American Pat  replied to  sixpick @5    9 years ago

Hey Six!!!

Looks like Trump was right all along with his "Crooked Hillary" branding.......but we knew that a long time ago.......well since the early 90's.....

 
 

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