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Hillary Clinton’s campaign manager John Podesta, second from right, pauses while speaking with senior aide Huma Abedin aboard Clinton’s campaign plane while traveling to Miami, Tuesday for a rally.
Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign reiterated concerns on Thursday about ties between Donald Trump and Russia in light of hacked emails from the account of John Podesta, Clinton’s presidential campaign chairman.
The thousands of emails, published by Wikileaks on Monday, include an email from Clinton supporters to U.S Rep. Tulsi Gabbard, criticizing her for stepping down from the Democratic National Committee in February to support Bernie Sanders’ presidential bid.
“We now know the FBI believes the Russians are behind this hack and that a Trump campaign associate was back-channeling with Julian Assange,” said Clinton spokesman Glen Caplin, in response to questions about the Gabbard email. “On Day 5 of the WikiLeaks propaganda campaign the question is what did the Trump campaign know and when did they know it? The fact that Donald Trump refuses to condemn this intrusion by a foreign government, cheers it on, and even says it didn’t happen is yet another reason why he is unfit to be president of the United States.”
Caplin said the campaign is not confirming the authenticity of any individual emails.
Reporters have been mining thousands of emails from Podesta’s account that are easily searchable on Wikileaks’ web site.
In the Feb. 29 email to Gabbard, two Clinton supporters, including a former director of the Clinton Foundation, tell the Hawaii congresswoman that she has disrespected Clinton and not to expect any help from them in raising campaign funds.
“When we met over dinner a couple of years ago I was so impressed by your intellect, your passion, and commitment to getting things done on behalf of the American people. For you to endorse a man who has spent almost 40 years in public office with very few accomplishments, doesn’t fall in line with what we previously thought of you,” the email reads, in part. “Hillary Clinton will be our party’s nominee and you standing on ceremony to support the sinking Bernie Sanders ship is disrespectful to Hillary Clinton. A woman who has spent the vast majority of her life in public service and working on behalf of women, families, and the underserved.”
The email was then forwarded to Podesta and longtime Clinton aid Huma Abedin with the note “Hammed dropped!” — apparently meaning to write hammer.
Trump has denied any association with the hacked emails, while also relishing their release.
“I hope people are looking at the disgraceful behavior of Hillary Clinton as exposed by WikiLeaks,” he tweeted earlier this week. “She is unfit to run.”
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““We now know the FBI believes the Russians are behind this hack and that a Trump campaign associate was back-channeling with Julian Assange,” said Clinton spokesman Glen Caplin, in response to questions about the Gabbard email.” Caplin refused to answer the questions about Tulsi Gabbard saying something stupid Russian involvement. Caplin should be fired. We want to know if this is a smear approved by Clinton. Clinton owes Gabbard an apology for the atrocious behavior of Caplin and her supporters. Heads should roll.
The email’s authors were obviously following an order from the Clinton campaign to “drop the hammer” on Tulsi for supporting Sanders over Clinton. The email was sent around the same time that there were coordinated personal and unfounded attacks against Tulsi on the web by Clinton supporters and paid trolls.
Shillary’s campaign must be getting desperate.
Shrillary has good reason to be nervous.
An increasing number of people are wising up to the fact that “scientific polls” can be converted to partisan harpoons to suppress opposition voter turn out. It all depends on WHICH “sample” is chosen and how the loaded questions are phrased.
What’s the lesser of two evils for a presidential candidate: a rude sexist, or a bullying liar? Both are bad, but I think the liar will do more damage if she’s in charge!
Rude sexist and bullying liar is exactly what the Cump is. It is amazing that his suppoters have such a
limited brain capacity just like the Chumpster whose brain is in the dumpster.
The same goes for Hillary and you.
Trump voices and expresses a lot of violent sentiments. Sure to get us into a nuclear Third World War. Trump is a self-centered megalomaniac and behaves like a spoiled brat. He wants to see all of Hillary’s emails. Well the Russians, Putin, and Wikileaks are helping him to hack into the Democratic Party and Hillary’s emails. Somebody needs to hack into all of Trump’s tax returns. What is he hiding, if he is such an honest and truthful person as he claims to be
Taxes or National Security and Righing election like Clinton are much worse. You are a F O O L
Donald Trump has totally flummoxed the party of Gutless Obsequious Pantywaists.
These risk averse castrati have for so long been taking range and bearing to the nearest mouse holes to which they can repair should someone threaten to give them stink eye, they are utterly bewildered by the emergence of a street smart counter puncher who is the very embodiment of the Brits’ famed Special Air Service: WHO DARES, WINS.
Risk-averse Hillary is right to be nervous, despite having our so called “news” media in her pocket. Whether Rip Van America will awaken in time to seize power and save the Republic remains deliciously unknown.
This is nothing less than a titanic struggle between Good and Evil the outcome of which will determine whether our unprecedented 240 year old experiment in self governance here in The New World will shudder to a halt or continue well into the third millennium.
Freedom is not for the faint of heart.
Clinton has a $B campaign organization. They are capable of planning and implementing huge effort to discredit any of their “enemies”. If they do this to one of their own can you imagine the resources being spent to attack Trump. Yes, he’s an easy target but I’m sure they’ve had hundreds of staff spending the past 6+ months digging up dirt. This is the American political way.
I don’t think so his handicap is his mouth.
You really want a easy target to be our POTUS. Remember that this is your description of him. Talk about loose nuts.
Better then no nuts.
Worse when you have no brains and cannot control your emotions a nd yourself like Trump and many of his supporters
here we go again, asange leaking e-mails and Clinton campaign blaming the Russians with no proof, the reason there saying this about the Russians hacking is because what jay Johnson and maobama said a few months ago they want the federal to get involved with us americans voting, the reason if trump wins they will come up and say the Russians hacked into the voting system so they can stall from trump from taking the pledge before coming president, that’s what all this is about, keeping us distracted from the real problems, the liberals with mental disorders and the t.v. and news media keep spreading these lies. don’t fall for it. if Hillary wins this all goes away, thats why they keep bringing up this lame excuse of Russia hacking e-mails.
Zombie fever equals Chumpomania!
Wikileaks, a very honest and reliabe source. A “ghost” organization. Really. You Chumps are Un ed U Kate ted.
Well Said. Distractions are all the Clinton camp has these days. Very sad so many Americans can’t see this. Dems are like Sheep
this accusation was expected.
Small kid time we would say that the Chump is getting dirty lickings!
yea; with a bunch of lies.
Every word Trump utters is a lie or a gross distortion. Trump is the crook, not Hillary.
You should know. You was one of them. Now we understand your thinking.
I’m glad that we’re hearing the dirty laundry for both sides. Clinton has a history of using public office to go after enemies. Trump sues his enemies also not a good sign. Trumps actions towards women is inexcusable. But we need to talk about other issues as well. We could be on the verge of war and we’re talking about the same kinds of thing Bill did. There are more important matters that also need to be discussed.
Obama & Clinton foreign policy has emboldened terrorists and Russia. Why aren’t isn’t there more being said about this! http://www.reuters.com/article/us-russia-usa-missiles-poland-idUSKCN12A14V
Clinton jeopardized national security by using a private server. FBI Agents unanimously voted to prosecute Hillary and it’s being covered up. http://www.patdollard.com/whistle-blower-comey-was-only-person-in-fbi-who-didnt-want-to-prosecute-hillary-rejected-every-agents-attorneys-decision/
If there is no accountability in government, our Bill of Rights, are meaningless. Russia’s and China’s bill of rights are just as promising as the US. The difference is that we have 3 parts of government that are supposed to hold each other accountable. We are moving towards a single party rule, which is exactly what Russia & China have.
– An Independent Moderate
Clinton and her supporters seem to consistently portray Trump supporters as unintelligent with “limited brain capacity” and other similar comments. How about just say they have a different point of view? Why demonize those who don’t agree with you? Isn’t it possible that someone can disagree with you without being stupid? Or racist? Or a bigot? Or________? (fill in the blank with your favorite insult).
Trump has consistently tried to demonize the Mexicans, the Muslims, Hillary (she’s a crook, lock her up), now the women who are accusing him of sexual assault.
Great post . Clinton supporters only dirt is Trump is a man who likes Beautiful Women. Such a bad man. Ha ha ha
Hypocrites since Bill actually had Sex in the Oval Office. Much worse but Clinton is disparate for Power !
“Isn’t it possible that someone can disagree with you without being stupid? Or racist? Or a bigot? Or________? (fill in the blank with your favorite insult).”
beachbum11 says:
October 14, 2016 at 2:53 pm
Better then no nuts.
64hoo says:
October 14, 2016 at 2:56 pm
…some other commenters hate this country and we know who they are, Hillary lovers.
CEI says:
October 14, 2016 at 2:44 pm
More proof, as if any were needed, that liberalism is indeed a mental disorder.
To answer your question: yes, it’s possible – although not often apparent.
More proof, as if any were needed, that liberalism is indeed a mental disorder. Her staff gets caught ruining yet another Clinton opponent and they blame Trump and the Russians. You can’t make this stuff up folks.
Nobody dirtier than Hillary and Bill.
The nerve of Hilliar to say she has concerns about the ties between Trump and the Russians. I think she forgot that when she was Secretary of State she brokered the Uranium deal with the Russians where they took over the Canadian mining company and brought Putin closer to his goal of controlling the Global Uranium supply and in return the Clinton Foundation banked $145 million along with the Canadian mining officials who became just as wealthy, it shouldn’t come to anyone’s surprise that the Canadians are huge donors to the Clinton Foundation. Uranium is used for nuclear weapons, Hilliar has put the american people at risk and is gambling with our lives. It doesn’t take a rocket scientist to figure out who is worse for our country. Whoever is behind the email leaks I would like to thank them for they have brought out what we have known all along but could not prove it, The Clintons and the Democratic machine are a bunch of criminals and a bigger threat to this country they should all be locked up for treason as they have sold us out for their personal gain.
lot of us agree you are spoken like a true American that loves this country, some other commenters hate this country and we know who they are, Hillary lovers.
Yup. Clinton lovers only care about PC stuff. Don’t seem to care about Lies, Corruption or National Security.
Unbelievable. First Clinton tried to drag Colin Powell into her illegal email scheme by blaming Powell. Now her camp is blaming Trump and the Russians for hacking her official government emails from her private, unsecured and illegal server. Any other citizen would have been found guilty and put in prison for handling highly classified materials from a private unsecure server located at home. This lack of judgement is akin to taking off in a airliner that hasn’t been certified for flight…..
Who the heck cares who releases it! The fact of the matter is the Clinton campaign is corrupt and threatening to anyone that doesn’t do their bidding. Just wait for more. When will people be investigated about this rigged democratic nomination?
yes, they would rather shoot the messenger then admit to any blame
It really doesn’t matter who leaked the email. The gist is that Clinton’s people pulled a power play on Gabbard for backing Bernie. I’m glad Tulsi stood her ground. This shouldn’t be about politics. It should be about our leaders actually helping to turn this country around.
Clinton did exactly the right thing. Sanders is not and has never been a Democrat, and a sitting Democratic House member was completely disloyal by backing him. I hope Clinton, as President, doesn’t give Tulsi the time of day
You sound more like a Republican that a Democrat because that is exactly their feelings against Pres. Obama: make sure nothing gets done. No wonder people are turning away from the two-party system.
Bernie caucused with Democrats for years and held chair positions on important committees – put there by Democrats. They sanctioned his run against Clinton. We live in a free and democratic society and choosing who we want to lead us is part of that. Tulsi stated that she backed Bernie because he is against regime-change wars that Clinton has favored, and she felt he was the best choice for President. In spite of you and the other haters, Tulsi will weather this storm and continue to serve and represent Hawaii with Aloha.
it’s the perfect alibi to avoid answering any questions about the content of the emails.
claim the russians did it and trump was in on it.
the female felon will not address the truth of content but rather will be fussing about the russians.
the congenital liar should be told, it isn’t going to work. anyone cc’d will have copies of original emails on their servers and most likely forwarded emails to other parties like the media. someone is going to authenticate the newly released emails with copies of the originals.
nice try, for the female felon, but not everyone is a gruber voter.
Oh, so this disgraceful treatment of Tulsi Gabbard is somehow all Donald Trump’s fault.
Not buying it. You guys need to own this.
It is NOT the messenger —-
It IS the message.
Clinton was and is viscous to Gabby, how spiteful.
besides initiating the claim that obama was not born in the u.s., the female felon’s campaign also dredged through obama’s past and questioned his father’s muslim religion, obama’s youth in muslim indonesia and obama’s use of cocaine, which he referred to as just a little blow.
no wonder the congenital liar claims russia is responsible for the leaks and therefore won’t address contents of the emails released.
bot alert
she is no democrat
Wrong. She votes over 90% with Democrats.
Wow the Clinton camp is Insane. Sorry but we know you are Corrupt and a Liar. Trump for President !
The Clinton campaign and Democrats in general are in panic mode. They are trying very hard to divert attention from the damaging substance of the hacked emails by attacking the people who did the hacking, who incidentally are doing Americans a great service by exposing the corruption represented by the Clinton campaign and by the Democratic Party.