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(2,848 posts)Braziles allegation is over a Joint Fundraising Agreement that Clinton signed with the DNC in August 2015, and JFAs are standard operating procedure for presidential candidates Trump signed one with the RNC, and Bernie Sanders did, too, in November 2015.
What Brazile contends, however, is that the Clinton campaign made personnel and spending demands with its agreement.
Now all presidential nominees take over the party as soon as they become the presumptive nominee Trump and Clinton did it in 2016, Mitt Romney did it in 2012, Barack Obama in 2008.
But Brazile says that the Clinton takeover of the DNC came too soon. In fact, Clinton campaign sources tell NBC News that they didnt control the DNC until June (after the primary season had ended), but they did use money from the JFA to build out general-election infrastructure and pay DNC/state party bills before then.