That WikiLeaks dump of Democratic National Committee emails happened as promised Friday.
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If you find that your personal info is indeed included in one of the leaked emails, there’s unfortunately no way to effectively request that Wikileaks remove it, so you’ll need to take some measures to protect yourself. CNN has not independently established the emails’ authenticity.
In the course of the bitterly contested primaries, the Sanders campaign several times accused the DNC and in particular, its chairwoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz, of bias and unfair treatment – particularly in the scheduling of debates which, Sanders argued, were being slotted in weekends when audiences would be smaller.
In Idaho, 12 out of the 20 delegates pledged to support Sanders created GoFundMe pages to help cover the costs of attending Monday’s convention.
In one email Chief Financial Officer Brad Marshall asks if someone can confront a person (who is unnamed in the email) and “ask his belief” in an apparent attempt to reveal if Sanders is an atheist to hurt him with with religious voters in the South. Sanders’ name is not mentioned in the note. “My Southern Baptist peeps would draw a big difference between a Jew and atheist”. The emails also show an unprecedented level of collusion between top party officials and political reporters, as well as DNC staffers favouring Hillary Clinton while devising ways to attack Bernie Sanders. Mock his heritage and much more. On-line from Wikileakes, really vicious.
This poll indicated that about 85% of those surveyed who voted for Sanders in various state primary elections would make the switch to Hillary Clinton in a general election; 9% indicated a desire to switch to Trump out of totally reasonable hatred for Clinton and her various scandals and lies; and 6% said they would vote for either a third party candidate or were unsure as to what their decision would be.
The leaked emails cover a period from January 2015 to May 2016. However, the Sanders campaign has long maintained that this was not the case and the campaign was putting a thumb on the scale in Clinton’s favor and he has called for the replacement of DNC chair Debbie Wasserman Schultz. Most of the emails showed routine campaign planning among senior DNC officials.
“It’s gas meets flame”, the Democrat said.
Michael Briggs, a Sanders spokesman, had no comment.
The issue surfaced on Saturday at Clinton’s first campaign event with Tim Kaine as her running mate, when a protester was escorted out of Florida International University in Miami. A DNC staffer jokingly asked a colleague “Is there a Fuck You emoji?” after a reporter emailed for comment about Donald Trump calling Hillary Clinton an enabler of her husband’s infidelity.
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Also, we don’t know for sure that Russian hackers leaked the DNC emails – and if they did, what their motivations were.
