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lapucelle

(18,040 posts)
Sun Nov 5, 2017, 01:08 PM Nov 2017

"Brazile Denies Democratic Primary Was Rigged"

"Former Democratic National Committee (DNC) interim chairwoman Donna Brazile said she found 'no evidence' that the 2016 Democratic presidential primary process was fixed, taking issue with the use of the word 'rigged' by others."

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"In the excerpt published in Politico [November 2], Brazile said she was tasked with searching for proof that Clinton’s team had fixed the nomination process in her favor.

'By September 7, the day I called Bernie, I had found my proof and it broke my heart,”'Brazile wrote, referring to Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), who ran an ultimately unsuccessful bid against Clinton for the Democratic presidential nomination.

But in the [November 5 "This Week with George Stephanopoulos"] interview, Brazile said she told Sanders she found "no evidence" that the primary was fixed against him."

http://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/358830-brazile-denies-democrati c-primary-was-rigged
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DURHAM D

(32,596 posts)
2. She wrote it, why would she read it?
Sun Nov 5, 2017, 01:12 PM
Nov 2017

She lies. Remind you of anyone?

This should really scare you - she still serves on the Rules and Bylaws Committee of the DNC.
Traitor in the house.



moriah

(8,311 posts)
3. I'm not going to buy ut, but I do want to read it in context.
Sun Nov 5, 2017, 01:19 PM
Nov 2017

There's been advance copies released to media causing this shitstorm, but until I can borrow it from my library I can't know what she said either.

I'm still torn. I don't want to believe that she would go from allegedly helping Hillary cheat, to saying that she had to put on Gospel music to call Bernie, to saying she had proof, to saying there was no proof. I want to believe that people are taking things out of context, that she's not lying about conversations (Cheng's people deny him hearing any "whipping girl" convo) along with misinterpreting JFAs.

But damn.

lapucelle

(18,040 posts)
5. You can watch the interview and hear Donna actually say that the primaries weren't rigged.
Sun Nov 5, 2017, 01:32 PM
Nov 2017

What Brazil calls "the cancer" (the memorandum to the HVF-DNC joint funding agreement) was modeled on the JFA terms that Brazile had negotiated for Gore in 1999 BEFORE he had won the nomination.

https://www.politico.com/story/2015/07/clinton-puts-tight-grip-on-dnc-wallet-119748

moriah

(8,311 posts)
8. As I said, she's definitely guilty of overreacting to a standard JFA.
Sun Nov 5, 2017, 02:08 PM
Nov 2017

Especially since Bernie wasn't going to specifically court high-dollar donors for the DNC to benefit from (him signing a JFA for his few wealthy donors was good, and I'm not faulting him for focusing on the primary and his model of fundraising), *somebody* had to get the money the DNC and state parties needed for the general, and needed to start raising it fast even if it couldn't be spent immediately.

The rest.... as I said, I'm not buying it before reading it through the Overdrive ebook app once it hits a library.

I'm afraid that this is a bid to change parties because she lost credibility over the debate stuff. I hope it isn't. I don't *want* to believe any Democrat would.

moriah

(8,311 posts)
10. I don't know what the hell is going on.
Sun Nov 5, 2017, 02:32 PM
Nov 2017

Either every media outlet who has received advance copies of her book has misinterpreted it greatly, or it wasn't written to heal the party.

emulatorloo

(43,982 posts)
4. "I found no evidence, none whatsoever" that primaries were "rigged."
Sun Nov 5, 2017, 01:20 PM
Nov 2017






.@donnabrazile to @GStephanopoulos: "I found no evidence, none whatsoever" that primaries were "rigged." http://abcn.ws/2j2u69i
8:16 AM - Nov 5, 2017
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