Sanders Statement on Nevada (official, full statement)

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93. The "shots" and "ransacking" were red herring deflections.

Those two unsolved random incidents had nothing to do with the Clinton campaign, nor was there any indication either one was done by a Clinton supporter. It was really dishonest and inflammatory of Sanders to bring them up in a statement that was supposed to be a condemnation of, not an excuse for, the Sanders supporter violence. The NV State Convention riot was indisputably by the Sanders supporters and instigated by the Sanders campaign.

CNN has audio of Sanders Aide Inciting the Nevada Convention Chaos

http://www.cnn.com/2016/05/17/politics/democrat-bernie-sanders-revolt/index.html

But new audio obtained by CNN shows a senior Sanders aide -- on the eve of the Nevada convention -- encouraging the senator's supporters try to "take over" the convention, change party rules and continue the "revolution" that Sanders has long campaigned on.
"You should not leave," Joan Kato, the national delegates director, told Sanders supporters in a meeting last week at the Rumor Boutique Hotel. "I'm going to repeat that, unless you are told by someone from the campaign ... that you can leave, you should not leave."

http://m.dailykos.com/stories/2016/5/17/1527511/-Sanders-issues-statement-about-Nevada-and-it-is-horrible