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DetlefK

(16,423 posts)
Tue Jul 26, 2016, 11:31 AM Jul 2016

What damaging and damning info is in those leaked e-mails?

I heard that these e-mails show DNC-plotting against Sanders.
And I have heard that they only show partisan bias in a few low-level staffers, except those staffers then didn't go through with their issues.

So, what exactly is in those e-mails?

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What damaging and damning info is in those leaked e-mails? (Original Post) DetlefK Jul 2016 OP
Thanks so mucho jehop61 Jul 2016 #1
I think you just nailed it! tonyt53 Jul 2016 #2
Nothing is in them. And they are tainted as well. The_Casual_Observer Jul 2016 #3
Enough Uponthegears Jul 2016 #4
To be fair LoverOfLiberty Jul 2016 #14
I wish the Hispanic Outreach program wasn't referred to as "Taco Bowl Engagement" in the emails Attorney in Texas Jul 2016 #5
There's definitely some bad lingo in those emails. NWCorona Jul 2016 #7
Do you really believe everything the right wing tells you? lapucelle Jul 2016 #10
Did I reference that email? NWCorona Jul 2016 #12
Its a valid question LoverOfLiberty Jul 2016 #15
Pushing a right wing talking point lapucelle Jul 2016 #21
Lol! Why bother posting if you are gonna ignore? NWCorona Jul 2016 #25
Why are you repeating a debunked right wing/Donald Trump talking point? lapucelle Jul 2016 #8
Wish...granted. I looked at those emails discussing how to address the trump's taco bowl tweet... Cerridwen Jul 2016 #11
That's good. Because it isn't. Produce an email where it is called that. There are none. Squinch Jul 2016 #17
Cat videos and Paul Ryan "Hey, girl" memes, lapucelle Jul 2016 #6
Actually they were not low-level DNC who were at fault. avaistheone1 Jul 2016 #9
People were at fault for sending emails? lapucelle Jul 2016 #16
Got it. You really don't understand how high-level DNC staffer's were avaistheone1 Jul 2016 #19
I've read them all and I agree with Joe Biden. lapucelle Jul 2016 #24
You mean the stolen emails? It was an act of theft, after all. Ott, cat videos... Hekate Jul 2016 #13
An act of theft that has shown the DNC attempted to undermine the Sanders campaign. avaistheone1 Jul 2016 #20
Where are the RNC emails? (Or Trump's tax returns, for that matter?) If it's only about... Hekate Jul 2016 #22
Despite repeated requests for days for anyone to show me any emails, other than the two Squinch Jul 2016 #18
Now they say emails MFM008 Jul 2016 #23
Let's say they were plotting a 'shit-storm' against Sanders... Blanks Jul 2016 #26

jehop61

(1,735 posts)
1. Thanks so mucho
Tue Jul 26, 2016, 11:35 AM
Jul 2016

for keeping the conspiracy theories going. Keep"hearing" and let the rest of us know what you find out

 

Uponthegears

(1,499 posts)
4. Enough
Tue Jul 26, 2016, 11:49 AM
Jul 2016

to cause the DNC chairman to resign and go into hiding and the DNC to publicly apologize. It's pretty hard to act like it was nothing,

BUT

The ONLY important point about the emails is that IT'S OVER.

Bernie said it didn't change the outcome and it isn't changing his vote or his endorsement.

We are ONE TEAM

UNITE

NWCorona

(8,541 posts)
12. Did I reference that email?
Tue Jul 26, 2016, 12:23 PM
Jul 2016

I'm only speaking on the ones I've read myself.

Take your condescension elsewhere.

lapucelle

(18,229 posts)
21. Pushing a right wing talking point
Tue Jul 26, 2016, 12:46 PM
Jul 2016

that's been debunked is dubious at best.

I'm pretty new here, but I have read that ignore is my friend. Let's see if that's true.

Cerridwen

(13,252 posts)
11. Wish...granted. I looked at those emails discussing how to address the trump's taco bowl tweet...
Tue Jul 26, 2016, 12:21 PM
Jul 2016

Wish...granted. I looked at those emails discussing how to address the trump's taco bowl tweet and the video ideas they were putting together to call trump on his idiocy and racism.

Here's the link to the emails using that phrase, "taco bowl engagement" with their subject line: "Trump isn't trying to bring people together"

https://wikileaks.org/dnc-emails/?q=%22taco+bowl+engagement%22&mfrom=&mto=&title=&notitle=&date_from=&date_to=&nofrom=&noto=&count=50&sort=0#searchresult


Squinch

(50,934 posts)
17. That's good. Because it isn't. Produce an email where it is called that. There are none.
Tue Jul 26, 2016, 12:35 PM
Jul 2016

That phrase is geared at counteracting Trump's ridiculous response to Cinco de Mayo.

lapucelle

(18,229 posts)
6. Cat videos and Paul Ryan "Hey, girl" memes,
Tue Jul 26, 2016, 12:05 PM
Jul 2016

letters from Nigerian diplomats who want help with banking issues, pix from hot neighbors who don't actually live in the neighborhood, a note from somebody's great aunt in Teeneck, NJ asking for a Christmas list because she likes to do her shopping early, and warnings from Paypal that an account has been limited.

 

avaistheone1

(14,626 posts)
9. Actually they were not low-level DNC who were at fault.
Tue Jul 26, 2016, 12:18 PM
Jul 2016
In a statement on its site, WikiLeaks says most of the 19,252 leaked DNC emails came from the accounts of seven key DNC figures, one of whom is identified as the DNC’s Finance Chief of Staff Scott Comer.


http://www.washingtonblade.com/2016/07/25/gay-dnc-officials-emails-part-massive-wikileaks-release/

lapucelle

(18,229 posts)
16. People were at fault for sending emails?
Tue Jul 26, 2016, 12:32 PM
Jul 2016

Last edited Tue Jul 26, 2016, 01:14 PM - Edit history (1)

Most of the stolen emails came from key figures, but that doesn't mean that most of the emails were unethical or that any from senior figures were unethical. I can only imagine how the Trumpsters are feeling today. After trawling through 20,000 emails, the only thing they have is a the lame accusation that the DNC was racist because they referenced the Donald's racist tweet and used it against him.

Trump should take comfort in the fact that the DNC was referencing Trump's infamous taco tweet in the "deeply troubling email" that the right wing is agog about today. Calm down, Donald. It was ABOUT YOU!

https://medium.com/@BJ_Murphy/no-the-dnc-did-not-compare-mexicans-to-taco-bowls-86e24c9d15ec#.asmom06aq

 

avaistheone1

(14,626 posts)
19. Got it. You really don't understand how high-level DNC staffer's were
Tue Jul 26, 2016, 12:41 PM
Jul 2016

strategizing against the Sanders campaign. Note such action is specifically against the DNC charter. You need to your homework and read the primary emails that are under public discussion.

Stop worrying about the Russians. They don't matter.



lapucelle

(18,229 posts)
24. I've read them all and I agree with Joe Biden.
Tue Jul 26, 2016, 01:11 PM
Jul 2016

It's heartbreaking when you run an excellent and innovative campaign, but come up short. I was a Hillary supporter in 2008, so I know exactly how that feels.

 

avaistheone1

(14,626 posts)
20. An act of theft that has shown the DNC attempted to undermine the Sanders campaign.
Tue Jul 26, 2016, 12:43 PM
Jul 2016

Yup, that is clear. The DNC has already admitted it is so.

Hekate

(90,616 posts)
22. Where are the RNC emails? (Or Trump's tax returns, for that matter?) If it's only about...
Tue Jul 26, 2016, 12:50 PM
Jul 2016

...transparency in our political parties, I want to know where the hell are the RNC emails? Do you seriously think those are a clean set?

Let's see what those reveal.

Oh, nobody stole those and released them on the eve of the RNC? Gosh, I do wonder why that is? Why do YOU think that is?

This stinks of sabotage, and the Democratic Party has lost elections over sabotage before this.

Ooo, look at the shiny object over there by the Dems. Don't look anywhere near the GOP or their connections.

Christ on a trailer hitch.

Squinch

(50,934 posts)
18. Despite repeated requests for days for anyone to show me any emails, other than the two
Tue Jul 26, 2016, 12:39 PM
Jul 2016

terrible ones about Sanders's religion that were exchanged after Sanders lost the primary, that were detrimental to the Sanders campaign, or that pointed to activities motivated by bias.

No one has been able to come up with any.

I looked myself for a few hours. Found nothing.

Blanks

(4,835 posts)
26. Let's say they were plotting a 'shit-storm' against Sanders...
Tue Jul 26, 2016, 01:35 PM
Jul 2016

It was email, and it was hacked. It's not the same as posting on Facebook, or on a message board. It is a communication that is supposed to be secure. They didn't put it out there for public consumption. The press did.

The real issue here is the security of private (or company) emails. The most damning thing that they have come up with is this "Bernie's religion" thing (I assume it's the most damning because the press has reported it at least a dozen times). You have to expect that they're gonna favor somebody, I know I would (did, whatever) so the fact that THEY favored one candidate over the other isn't even news.

Stick with the theory that the hackers favor Trump (regardless of who the hackers are) because that's the real story. They broke the law because they want to make the democrats look bad, hence they are supporting Trump. The emails themselves don't matter, it is the motives of the hackers that should be in question.

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