Donna Brazile called into the Joe Madison radio show this morning to discuss, among other things, revelations from WikiLeaks that she shared debate questions with Hillary Clinton’s campaign before primary debates with Bernie Sanders. Despite outrage at her behavior even from her former colleagues at CNN, Brazile told Madison that though she “submitted things” and “circulated things” that her “conscience is very clear.” Exactly how delusional does one have to be to plot to rig a national primary race and then pretend that nothing has happened all while playing the victim? This seems to be a very special skill that Donna has developed.
Here is Brazile’s full statement concerning CNN:
“Let me just tell you something. My conscience, as an activist, as a strategist, my conscience is very clear. When I said what I said, I said it, and I’m not going back on it. But also understand that throughout the primary season, whether it was 2008, 2004, or 2000 whatever, 2016, I was in touch with everybody. Martin O’Malley, Bernie Sanders who I’ve known for over 30 years, Hillary Clinton who I’ve known for…You doggone right I’m gonna talk to everybody. Joe, I will never go out on TV or go on radio without the facts. I will ask, I will submit things, I will circulate things, and guess what, I also enjoy the exchange that I have with my colleagues. They work for everybody. My friends are deeply embedded in all of the campaigns. And guess what? Here comes a real shocker. I also talk to Republicans. Before I go to their events, I talk to them. What are the topics, what are we going to be talking about, sometimes I don’t even know the issues myself and I have to ask, I have to call around. So I talk to everybody. And people will tell you that. People are outraged now because we’re in this period of time that everybody has selective outreach. One last thing, had the Republican National Committee been hacked, had the Republican Party’s emails and other assistants been altered and hacked, the country would be in selective outrage if they found out this was from a foreign source. Right now they’re just basically sending around these emails like they’re gossip and not understanding the impact that a foreign country is trying to undermine our democracy by stealing the playbook of one political party.”
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For those of you not up to speed on the Donna Brazile back story, here is our previous post on the situation.
Over the past several weeks DNC Chair Donna Brazile has been pummeled in the media after Podesta’s emails revealed that she provided a debate question to Hillary in advance of a March 13, 2016 debate with Bernie Sanders.
Now, the latest WikiLeaks dump reveals that it wasn’t just a one-off thing. The following email from Brazile, sent one day prior to a March 6th debate with Bernie, shows yet another occasion of her providing an advanced peak at debate questions to the Hillary campaign. We can’t imagine that Bernie supporters are very happy that this is the person chosen to takeover the leadership position at the DNC after Schultz was pushed out for showing favoritism toward the Clinton campaign.
And, sure enough, according to the following transcript from the New York Times, Hillary was well prepared for a question from Lee-Anne Walters about lead poisoning…she even had a handy stat about 500k children having “lead in their bodies”….but those are just stats that most people have on the top of their minds.
COOPER: I want to go to Lee-Anne Walters. This is Lee-Anne Walters. She was one of the first people to report problems with the water in Flint. One of her twin boys stopped growing. Her daughter lost her hair.
She says she’s undecided, and has a question for both of you to answer, but we’ll start with Senator Sanders. Ms. Walters?
QUESTION: After my family, the city of Flint and the children in D.C. were poisoned by lead, will you make a personal promise to me right now that, as president, in your first 100 days in office, you will make it a requirement that all public water systems must remove all lead service lines throughout the entire United States, and notification made to the — the citizens that have said service lines.
SANDERS: I will make a personal promise to you that the EPA and the EPA director that I appoint will make sure that every water system in the United States of America is tested, and that the people of those communities know the quality of the water that they are drinking, and that we are gonna have a plan to rebuild water systems in this country that are unsafe for drinking. COOPER: Let me just point out for accuracy’s sake, there is 10 million lead service pipes delivering water to people all across this country tonight. Secretary Clinton?
CLINTON: Well, I agree completely. I want to go further though. I want us to have an absolute commitment to getting rid of lead wherever it is because it’s not only in water systems, it’s also in soil, and it’s in lead paint that is found mostly in older homes. That’s why 500,000 children today have lead — lead in their bodies.
So, I want to do exactly what you said. We will commit to a priority to change the water systems, and we will commit within five years to remove lead from everywhere.
We were making progress on this in the 1990’s. I worked with then Senator Obama to get more money, more support to do more to remove lead.
And then there is also this follow-up to a previous email in which Brazile promises even more debate questions.
Just more “behavior that is normal” we’re sure.
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Donna Brazile was noticeably uncomfortable for every second of the following 10-minute interview with Megyn Kelly of Fox News. Kelly pushed hard on the recent Project Veritas undercover videos showing DNC operatives plotting to incite violence at Trump rallies and commit massive voter fraud and over Brazile’s leaked email showing that she provided a CNN debate question to Hillary ahead of a March 2016 debate with Bernie. Brazile tried every trick in the book to deflect and pivot but Kelly held her feet to the fire.
Brazile’s response on the Project Veritas videos were mostly nonsensical though she did summon the typical democrat argument that O’Keefe is a criminal and has a history of doctoring videos. But the real fireworks came when she was pressed on her leaked email revealing that she shared a debate question with Hillary in advance of a debate.
“I did not receive any questions from CNN, let’s just be very clear.”
“First of all what information are you providing to me that will let me see what you are talking about?”
“As a Christian woman I understand persecution, but I will not sit here and be persecuted because your information is totally false.”
“Podesta’s emails were stolen. You’re like the thief that wants to bring into the night what you found in the gutter.”
“I am not going to try to validate falsified information. I have my documents, I have my files.”
Because Donna seems to be afflicted with the same disease that haunted Hillary during her tenure as Secretary of State, an awful condition the causes the host to “not recall” significant life events, below is a refresher of the email in question.
And here is a similar interview by Jordan Chariton of The Young Turks:
Yeah, but Russia.
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