11-06-2016, 11:01 PM
We know that interim DNC chairperson Donna Brazile allegedly sent two emails with possible debate questions to the Clinton campaign manager while Brazile was still commentating on CNN.
We also know that at least one Clinton campaign doc that has been leaked was altered or forged. There are investigations underway into both the DNC and Clinton campaign hacks and the altered/forged docs.
Assuming the Brazile emails were authentic, we don't know whether Hillary Clinton got a heads-up on the questions or knew the source from her debate-preppers if she did. In any case, Clinton's responses to those questions were not among her best and don't appear to have affected her overall debate performance by anybody's account.
Brazile says she didn't send any questions to the Clinton campaign. If she did, it's unethical and she deserves the condemnation she's receiving, I agree. If she didn't, it'll likely come out later.
As far as the FBI snafu goes, that's a much bigger deal in terms of negative impact to one campaign to the benefit of another, by any objective set of eyes. But, I don't hold Donald Trump responsible for the bias and loose lips of disgruntled FBI agents, nor do I blame him for exploiting that huge home-stretch gift.
Trump sure overplayed his hand though by jumping to wrong conclusions and publicly insisting them to be fact when he could have just stoked innuendo and likely gained as much or more. I don't know if Trump was simply lying again with the rhetoric he's been spewing since the first Comey letter was released, or if he instead got suckered into full-throating baseless conspiracy theory yet again. In either case, he and Giuliani look like fools (again), as does Jason Chaffetz (again).
We also know that at least one Clinton campaign doc that has been leaked was altered or forged. There are investigations underway into both the DNC and Clinton campaign hacks and the altered/forged docs.
Assuming the Brazile emails were authentic, we don't know whether Hillary Clinton got a heads-up on the questions or knew the source from her debate-preppers if she did. In any case, Clinton's responses to those questions were not among her best and don't appear to have affected her overall debate performance by anybody's account.
Brazile says she didn't send any questions to the Clinton campaign. If she did, it's unethical and she deserves the condemnation she's receiving, I agree. If she didn't, it'll likely come out later.
As far as the FBI snafu goes, that's a much bigger deal in terms of negative impact to one campaign to the benefit of another, by any objective set of eyes. But, I don't hold Donald Trump responsible for the bias and loose lips of disgruntled FBI agents, nor do I blame him for exploiting that huge home-stretch gift.
Trump sure overplayed his hand though by jumping to wrong conclusions and publicly insisting them to be fact when he could have just stoked innuendo and likely gained as much or more. I don't know if Trump was simply lying again with the rhetoric he's been spewing since the first Comey letter was released, or if he instead got suckered into full-throating baseless conspiracy theory yet again. In either case, he and Giuliani look like fools (again), as does Jason Chaffetz (again).