Out of Nearly 20,000 Emails Leaked by Wikileaks, ABC News Identifies ‘Some of the Most Damaging Finds’
ABC News has just published an article titled, “The 4 Most Damaging Emails From the DNC WikiLeaks Dump,” detailing what is says are four of the “most damaging” emails from the 19,252 emails posted by Wikileaks on Friday, “from top Democratic National Committee officials, exchanged from January 2015 through May 2016.”
Here’s what ABC News reports:
DNC Chairwoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz Calls Sanders Campaign Manager Jeff Weaver an “A–” and a “Liar”
In May, the Democratic Nevada State Convention became rowdy and got out of hand in a fight over delegate allocation. When Weaver went on CNN and denied any claims violence had happened, Debbie Wasserman Schultz, once she was notified of the exchange, wrote “Damn liar. Particularly scummy that he never acknowledges the violent and threatening behavior that occurred.”
In another instance, right before the Nevada Convention, Weaver publicly commented, “I think we should go to the [national] convention.” The chairwoman was flagged about this comment and responded in an e-mail, “he is an a–.”
Highlighting Sanders’ Faith
One email shows that a DNC official contemplated highlighting Sanders’ alleged atheism — even though he has said he is not — during the primaries as a possibility to undermine support with voters.
“It may make no difference but for KY and WA can we get someone to ask his belief,” Brad Marshall, CFO of the DNC wrote in an email on May 5, 2016. “He had skated on having a Jewish heritage. I read he is an atheist. This could make several points difference with my peeps. My southern baptist peeps would draw a big difference between a Jew and an atheist”
Building a Narrative Against Sanders
“Wondering if there’s a good Bernie narrative for a story which is that Bernie never ever had his act together, that his campaign was a mess,” DNC National Secretary Mark Paustenbach wrote in an email to National Communications Director Luis Miranda on May 21. After detailing ways in which the Sanders camp was disorganized, Paustenbach concludes, “it’s not a DNC conspiracy it’s because they never had their act together.”
The idea was nixed though. “True,” Miranda acknowledged in his response. “But the chair has been advised not to engage. So we’ll have to leave it alone.”
Lamentations That Sanders Is Not a ‘True’ Democrat
As the primary season wore on, the chairwoman appeared to grow exasperated with Sanders’ desire to stay in the race, when the delegate math was against him, in one email even lamenting the fact that he was an independent in the Senate but ran as a Democrat in the primaries. In an April 24 email she received with an article describing the ways Sanders felt the DNC was undermining his campaign, she wrote back, “spoken like someone who has never been a member of the Democratic Party and has no understanding of what we do.”
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