"In unprecedented move, DNC official [David Hogg] to spend big to take down fellow Democrats"

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89. Bernie: "If they went into our emails I'm sure there would be statements that would be less than flattering

about, you know, the Clinton staff." The emails were from May. What procrastinators, waiting until the election was essentially over to start the diabolical "rigging."

"In July Wikileaks had stirred up internal trouble among Democrats ... by releasing emails containing snipes against Sanders by members of the DNC. Bernie himself didn't find the statements shocking. 'If they went into our emails I'm sure there would be statement that would be less than flattering about, you know, the Clinton staff.' But his supporters weren't as sanguine, and complained loudly that the emails confirmed their suspicions that the primary had been 'rigged.'

So-called rigging: "a myth, according to Kurt Eichenwald, that vastly overestimated the power of the DNC and portrayed the party as a 'monolith that orchestrated the nomination of Hillary Clinton against the 'will of the people.' ... As Eichenwald points out, those emails were almost all from May 2016, at which point Sanders had no hope of winning the nomination, except through a massive 'flip' of superdelegates -- a rather odd strategy for someone running a campaign in the name of 'the people.'"

Susan Bordo