The stunning revelation by longtime operative Donna Brazile that the Hillary Clinton campaign secretly took control — literal control — of the Democratic National Committee a year before Hillary became the party’s nominee is the talk of American politics.
As it should be.
Brazile’s piece in Politico describes her shock at the discovery of formal legal paperwork between the two entities when she took the reins at the DNC in August 2016. Brazile had been tapped for the job when DNC chair Debbie Wasserman Schultz was forced to resign. Leaked e-mails had shown how Schultz had been putting her finger on the scale to help Clinton while the insurgent Bernie Sanders campaign was making a serious bid to seize the party nomination away from New York’s favorite carpetbagger.
Her account features ridiculous and unbelievable melodramatics — she says she “gasped” when she found out the truth and that she “lit a candle in my living room and put on some gospel music” to calm her before she called Bernie Sanders to deliver the awful news.
But silly though Brazile’s prose is, her account is vitally important not only for all those who want to understand how American politics works but also for the future of Brazile’s beloved party.
First, it raises key questions about what was happening as Hillary Clinton faced a time of trial in the middle of 2015. Her reputation was taking hits as her evasions and denials and untruths about what had happened to the private e-mail server she had set up illegitimately in 2009 seemed to mushroom on a daily basis.
As this was happening, she found herself with only two semi-serious challengers for the nomination — Sanders and former Maryland Gov. Martin O’Malley.
There was another person out there — then-Vice President Joe Biden. Though grieving over the tragic loss of his son Beau, Biden was still seriously considering a late entry into the race. Indeed, it would not be until October that Biden would declare himself out of contention.
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VP Biden would have been a shoe in for president and Hiltlery knew it, so she had his family threatened by the same thugs that do all of the Clinton Crime Families killings.
ReplyDeleteBe real! Does anyone believe Martin O'Malley was a better candidate choice than ole Joe? Hillary was already running the DNC when he decided NOT to run.
ReplyDeleteThat nasty failure learned how to work the press like our good president did during his victory running for the high office. That thief stopped paying attention to her trashy spouse and learned from the best. She is tickled to death she gets all of this free publicity.
ReplyDeleteAre you kidding? Hillary's control pushed EVERYONE in her party out of the race.
ReplyDeleteThe democrats did not have any candidate's worth voting for, that includes Hillary, Saunders and Biden. And before you jump on the liberal bandwagon on bashing Trump, I'm not saying he was a great choice either.
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