It was timed, according to site founder Julian Assange, to align with the beginning of the Democratic National Convention.
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Just a week after WikiLeaks released almost 20,000 DNC emails which came close on the heels of the DNC hack by suspected Russian hackers, WikiLeaks released 25 DNC voicemails that likely come from the leaked email dump. I will leave the Democratic Party if the Democratic Party continues to coddle Bernie Sanders.
The anti-Sanders messages are included with mostly run-of-the-mill messages about upcoming Democratic events that WikiLeaks selected for release Wednesday.
“I’m furious about what you are doing for Bernie Sanders, he’s getting way too much influence”. I am on fixed income and I spent over $300 donated to Hillary, and what I see is the DNC bending over backwards for Bernie.
Two calls from the 480 area code complained about the Democratic National Committee’s catering to Sanders, wondering why the DNC allowed Cornell West to join the committee when he was “such trash”. A caller who identifies himself as former ambassador to Austria William Eacho says his wife got a call about a small dinner with President Obama.
The uproar following the leak forced party chief Debbie Wasserman Schultz to abruptly announce her resignation on the eve of the convention she was meant to preside over.
The voicemails are related to the batch of about 20,000 leaked emails WikiLeaks published earlier this week, which revealed that elements within the supposedly neutral DNC were in fact working to help Hillary Clinton secure the Democratic nomination.
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It was not immediately clear if the audio recordings were part of the original cache of 19,000 emails and attachments released by WikiLeaks on Friday.
