Howard Dean on Post-nom GE memo and Donna. "Standard operating procedure for 15 years"

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49. No I didn't mean Brazile was influenced by Russians at all! She adamantly pushed back against them

As you said I think Donna was trying to reinvent herself so she could get work in the future as a political consultant. Clinton money well is dry for Donna, as Clinton's done. Book seems to be about reinventing herself for the Our Revolution type work. I don't know what happened or how she fucked up all this/confused two different agreements, but she's on her one w that.

As we know, Bernie supporters were targeted by Putin and Assange w the false "rigged" meme thru Wikileaks ridiculous spin of the DNC emails.

Trump followed up on that using the same language as he attempted to lure Bernie or Busters to vote for him.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/jul/25/donald-trump-bernie-sanders-supporters-russia-putin

As evidenced by some posts we're seeing in this thread and in others on DU, some folks got way too invested in Putin's false "rigged" narrative and are apparently desperate to cling to it.

By the way, Donna herself debunked that Russian "rigged meme" spin in March 2017:

http://time.com/4705515/donna-brazile-russia-emails-clinton/


"When I was asked last July to step in temporarily as D.N.C. Chair, I knew things were amiss. The D.N.C. had been hacked, and thousands of staff emails and documents were plastered on various websites. Staff were harassed, morale suffered, and we lost weeks of planning. Donors were harassed, and fundraising fell off.

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By stealing all the DNC’s emails and then selectively releasing those few, the Russians made it look like I was in the tank for Secretary Clinton. Despite the strong, public support I received from top Sanders campaign aides in the wake of those leaks, the media narrative played out just as the Russians had hoped, leaving Sanders supporters understandably angry and sowing division in our ranks.

In reality, not only was I not playing favorites, the more competitive and heated the primary got, the harder D.N.C. staff worked to be scrupulously fair and beyond reproach. In all the months the Russians monitored the D.N.C.’s email, they found just a handful of inappropriate emails, with no sign of anyone taking action to disadvantage the Sanders campaign."

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Hope this clarifies what I meant.