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Jnew28

(931 posts)
Wed Aug 17, 2016, 05:45 PM Aug 2016

DNC E-mail Leak Scandal: Not Much of a Scandal, Blown Way Out of Proportion: A Politics 101 Primer o

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"As the story swirling around the Russian-hacked, Wikileaks-released body of e-mails from seven staffers of the Democratic National Committee (abbreviated as DNC and the brain trust/leadership organization for the Democratic Party) unfolded just before and during the Democratic National Convention, it came to light that some of these staffers had discussed Bernie Sanders in a critical manner and discussed ways to bring negative attention to his candidacy.

Cue one of the most overblown “scandals” in recent memory."

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DNC E-mail Leak Scandal: Not Much of a Scandal, Blown Way Out of Proportion: A Politics 101 Primer o (Original Post) Jnew28 Aug 2016 OP
Hey, the primaries are over citood Aug 2016 #1
The DNC E-mail hoax was subsequent to the primaries. creeksneakers2 Aug 2016 #2
I don't think your source gets what a hoax it was creeksneakers2 Aug 2016 #3

citood

(550 posts)
1. Hey, the primaries are over
Wed Aug 17, 2016, 05:48 PM
Aug 2016

Why re-hash this in a forum where its against the rules to even argue with you about it?

creeksneakers2

(7,473 posts)
3. I don't think your source gets what a hoax it was
Wed Aug 17, 2016, 06:42 PM
Aug 2016

He's sort of saying that they went after Bernie but that was OK because Bernie and his followers weren't Democrats. In fact, they never went after Bernie at all. I've been challenging since those E-mails came out for somebody to come up with a single one that shows an actual action that influenced the outcome of the election. Nobody has shown me one yet.

A few of the E-mails are just DNC officers talking about Bernie behind his back. There were ideas that went nowhere. There was no rule against that. The others are plans to defend the DNC from smears from Bernie. Defending against smears from Bernie was not unfairly intervening in the outcome of the election.

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