Report: Clinton Takeover of the DNC Began Before Brazile’s Book Said

The Hillary Clinton campaign takeover of the Democratic National Committee began even before she officially announced her 2016 candidacy, according to a new report.

Donna Brazile's new book 'Hacks' charged that Clinton took control of party strategy and fundraising in August of 2015 in the form of a joint fundraising agreement.

However, three months before Clinton announced her run, then-DNC chair Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D., Fla.) started recruiting Clinton loyalists to assist and develop a 2016 general election victory, the Huffington Post reports.

Two of the highest-paid consulting firms hired by the DNC were Precision Strategies and SKDKnickerbocker, which received close to a million dollars during the presidential race.

Jennifer O’Malley Dillon is the co-founder of Precision Strategies and was a former Barack Obama campaign veteran and former executive director at the DNC. In August 2015, the New York Times reported O'Malley Dillon was unofficially advising the Clinton campaign and Politico reported she was a possible hire.

Senior vice president of SKDK Jon Reinish has described Schultz as a personal friend and served on the host committee for a Ready for Hillary LGBTQ fundraiser in January 2015.

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