Forget Party Unity: The New DNC EMAIL LEAK Means There's NO Going Back For Bernie Sanders’ Democrats

[Segami]

"..Thus far Guccifer 2.0’s leak is seen as vindication that the process was skewed and manipulated. As far as Clinton is concerned, she, her supporters, and the DNC can all argue that Bernie Sanders lost because of votes, but at the end of the day, it won’t matter. Nothing anyone, including Sanders, can say will change the fact that his voters feel they weren’t treated fairly by the party, and to a large extent, they’re right..."

As Bernie Sanders delivered a livestream address to his supporters on Thursday about the future of his movement, he signaled an eventual end to the campaign. Encouraging his supporters to get involved, Sanders vowed to help Hillary Clinton defeat Trump conditional upon the Democratic Party adopting a “real progressive agenda.” However, earlier in the day news broke about a different story that undercut the Vermont Senator’s calls for eventual party unity. On the same website that published the DNC’s 200-page Donald Trump oppo file, the hacktivist known as “Guccifer 2.0” released what appears to be an internal email from the DNC discussing strategy, which served to confirm what many of Sanders’ supporters have felt all along: The Democratic Party leadership has had its thumb on the scale for Hillary Clinton in the primary. The email, dated May 26, 2015, about a month after Sanders announced his candidacy, revealed that at least some in the DNC were planning for a Clinton nomination:


In something right out of the Cold War, the DNC has claimed that these releases are part of a “Russian disinformation campaign,” but, according to FAIR, has provided no supporting evidence. But whatever the reason behind it, this leak has further incensed Sanders' supporters, and that is telling. It has been a long road to this point, but the fact that the 'Bernie Or Bust' Movement has grown to somewhere in the range of 3 to 4 million people (roughly a quarter to a third of Sanders' supporters) is as much a criticism of Hillary Clinton as a candidate as it is a condemnation of how the party has handled the primary. From the outset, there has been a perception of favoritism by the DNC leadership. Some of those concerns were due to the very fact that the DNC Chair, Debbie Wasserman Schultz was also Hillary Clinton's co-campaign chair in 2008. When Wasserman Schultz scheduled just six sanctioned debates at odd times when viewership would be predictably low, and after crucial deadlines to change one's voter registration in states like New York, and then threatened to ban candidates from those if they participated in unsanctioned ones, any hopes she'd had of appearing impartial were dashed.

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But it wasn't just Debbie Wasserman Schultz who soured Sanders supporters on the DNC. When news broke of a joint fundraising agreement between Clinton's campaign and the Democratic Party, many eyebrows were raised. Lee Fang of The Intercept then reported via Twitter that the DNC was funneling money into pro-Clinton super PACs. So close is the apparent relationship between the Clinton campaign and the Democratic Party, it could hardly be seen as shocking when Vice reported that the Democratic Party even shared a headquarters in Carson City, NV with the Clinton campaign.

Lee Fang ?@lhfang

Here's DNC paying (more) $ to American Bridge, which funds & shares office w/Hillary's Super PAC Correct the Record



Lee Fang ?@lhfang

Over the last 7 months the DNC has provided $216,000 to American Bridge, which is part of the Brock/Hillary SuperPAC network.

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https://www.pastemagazine.com/articles/2016/06/forget-party-unity-the-new-dnc-email-leak-means-th.html

[yourout]

1. kickity kickity

[WayBeyondBlue]

2. Not shocked

Thanks for the post though. Not looking to Democrats for "justice" or "fairness" any more. This primary season took care of that little fantasy.

What I always end up telling my wife is, If enough rich folks want something done, it will happen. If enough regular folk want something to happen, it won't.

Time to move forward with a strategy for replacing the Democratic Party.

[RobertEarl]

3. Were Bernie president

As defacto head of the party, this type of favoritism would not occur. If it were to occur, heads would roll. Where is Obama in all this? Did he quit fighting for us?

[bkkyosemite]

5. Obama is hiding Hillary's emails that she sent (to him I would suspect) on her server

regarding the TPP until after the election. And Obama is telling his AG to not indict HRC because he was emailing her back and forth on that private unsecured server...that is what Obama has been doing...in the last few days I suspect. And Obama and the AG have said nothing relevant with regards to vote flipping, vote disenfranchisement, stealing affiliations from Dems and deleting them to throwing ballots away..The Administration has been silent on these extremely important issues.

[RobertEarl]

6. The silence is deadly

I once had hope for some real change.

Maybe I was fooled?

[840high]

15. We were fooled.

[agracie]

9. The silence of Obama, the DNC, and the AG is also their consent.

[NJCher]

10. yes, this would explain a lot of things

First, it would show Obama knew about her server...played right along with it. Wow, how powerful is that? And the TPP emails--just on subject alone--would be highly inflammatory. Combine that with the server complicity and you have The Perfect Storm.

It's interesting that they took those emails out of the mix. On the surface, it looks like it's because of the topic matter, and it probably is. But also important, if those emails are taken out of the mix and there are no other Obama emails to her on that server, it also allows them to prosecute without getting Obama going down the drain with her.


Cher

[bkkyosemite]

11. What would be the reason to show them after the election?

[NJCher]

14. They wouldn't

They're just saying they would. They will come up with another excuse at that time.

Temporal excuses are the best excuses. That was my Master's degree thesis.


Cher

[WayBeyondBlue]

16. Impeacment fuel for Congre$$

[nc4bo]

24. Nice legacy Mr. Prez. Real swell to try and protect it.

Better do what little Anthony did and wish it all into the cornfield.

I bet he would if he could.

[riderinthestorm]

7. Agreed and great point. K&R! nt

[bkkyosemite]

4. There is more to come. And that 2 to 3 million I believe it is a lot more even though

HRC's supporters think it a drop in the pan.........nada

[MaeScott]

25. Guccifer 2.0 has released more docs but I don't have the link.

Much more and plans to release even more

[druidity33]

28. I thought Guccifer was in custody? nt.

[Else You Are Mad]

29. This is a different person.

He is just using the same name that is why he is using the 2.0 in his name.

[sadoldgirl]

8. K&R, by now I see no great hope anymore;

so I have to go Green!

[bkkyosemite]

12. Patience my friend...don't go anywhere yet.........

[Rosa Luxemburg]

13. seems to get worse

[senz]

17. I wonder what Martin O'Malley thinks of this?

He probably thought he was going to run on a level playing field, too.

Could there be a basis for a lawsuit against the DNC in this, on the part of Bernie, Martin, and the other Democratic contenders?

[Segami]

18. I'm no lawyer but it would seem

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that there might be grounds for a lawsuit.

No use wasting money betting on a horse if the outcome is rigged and you're not holding a winning ticket. Why spend the money in the first place?

How many people do you think would have donated to Bernie if DWS and the DNC came out and publicly announced that no matter how much money supporters donated to Bernie, Hillary was going to be the democratic nominee?

http://www.democraticunderground.com/1280213505#post4

[senz]

19. Well, as we both know

great minds think alike, but yours thinks a wee bit quicker than mine.

[Segami]

20. Quicker?.....I doubt that.....but you senz are a very sharp tack

on these boards and I'm sure many will agree with me wholeheartedly.

[senz]

22. Well, nice of you to say, Segami,

but I'm perfectly happy to be supportive of the more bold and out there good guys all in the service of Bernie's candidacy and political revolution.

I hope O' Malley will weigh in on this, but it's possible that he'd want to stay on the good side of the Dems for next time.

[merrily]

26. +1

[Duval]

34. +100

It's the three of you!! Segami, Merrily and Senz!!

[glinda]

21. If they are talking Class Action those take forever.

[nc4bo]

23. +++++ nt

[merrily]

27. With or without leaks or Guccifer, it's been obvious since at least 2012.

[elias7]

31. So true. But, who does this release benefit now?

This could be an unmasking of the process that has been obvious from the beginning, unless it's planted to sow discord and discourage Sanders voters in the primary. Trump is just the kind of guy to hire "the architect"

[Duppers]

30. Not another dime

to the DNC....until I'm sure they'll be fair...as if..

[felix_numinous]

33. Interfering with elections

seems to be a special skill the neo liberals have developed in other countries, and with Kissinger's practiced advice, they have succeeded to brainwash many people to go along with it.

[hopemountain]

35. K & R

with appreciations to segami

[HereSince1628]

36. IMO, they -did- get the most favorable match-up for the GE in Trump

He's certainly the most bizarre Republican nominee in at least a century, and his numbers are tanking.

It seems that Bill Clinton's phone call with Trump supposedly took place in 'late' May. That would be about the time this memo was sent.

I don't want to promote conspiracy theory, just that saying producing the worst republican candidate was clearly on the poobahs' minds at the time that call happened.