4. Clinton’s Lawyer Counseled The DNC After Sanders Called Them Out For Favoring Hillary:
On May 3rd, Clinton campaign lawyer Marc Elias gave the DNC advice for handling Sanders after Sanders called out the DNC for paying Clinton’s campaign staff with funds from the DNC’s joint fundraising committee. When CNN picked up the story, Elias contacted the DNC’s Communications Director Luis Miranda on how to deal with Sanders:
“My suggestion is that the DNC put out a statement saying that the accusations the Sanders campaign are not true”, said Elias to DNC staffer Miranda.
“The fact that CNN notes that you aren’t getting between the two campaigns is the problem. Here, Sanders is attacking the DNC and its current practice, its past practice with the POTUS and with Sec Kerry. Just as the RNC pushes back directly on Trump over ‘rigged system’, the DNC should push back DIRECTLY at Sanders and say that what he is saying is false and harmful the the Democratic party.”
The fact that [Clinton’s campaign lawyer] was talking to the DNC about how to respond would appear to suggest coordination between the DNC and Clinton campaign against Sanders in this particular case, says the Washington Post.
5. DNC Staff Suggested Putting Out A Story On How Bernie’s Campaign Was Failing To Steer Voters To Hillary
On May 21, DNC National Press Secretary Mark Pautenbach suggested putting out a story on how Sander’s campaign was failing to win more votes for Hillary:
DNC national press secretary Mark Pautenbach suggested pushing a narrative that Sanders “never ever had his act together, that his campaign was a mess.”
After detailing several arguments that could be made to push that narrative, Paustenbach concludes: “It’s not a DNC conspiracy, it’s because they never had their act together.”
Paustenbach’s suggestion, in that way, could be read as a defense of the committee rather than pushing negative information about Sanders. But this is still the committee pushing negative information about one of its candidates.
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