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REVEALED: Donna Brazile Shared CNN Town Hall Questions With Clinton Camp

Chuck Ross
The Daily Caller

Donna Brazile, the current head of the Democratic National Committee, appears to have tipped the Clinton campaign off to a question about the death penalty that was going to be asked during a CNN town hall in March, newly released emails show.

“From time to time I get the questions in advance,” Brazile wrote in an email to Clinton campaign communications director Jennifer Palmieri on March 12.

Brazile, who was a CNN contributor at the time of the email, went on to ask Palmieri about Clinton’s stance on the death penalty.

“Here’s one that worries me about HRC,” wrote Brazile in the email, which was released on Tuesday by Wikileaks. The emails come from the Gmail account of Clinton campaign chairman John Podesta.

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“Yes, it is one she gets asked about,” Palmieri responded. “Not everyone likes her answer but can share it. Betsaida – can you send her answer on death penalty?”

Clinton was indeed asked about her stance on the death penalty during a CNN-hosted town hall the next day in Columbus, Ohio.

Ricky Jackson, a former death row inmate who was exonerated after serving 39 years in an Ohio prison, asked Clinton the question.

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“I would breathe a sigh of relief if either the courts or the states themselves began to eliminate the death penalty,” Clinton told Jackson.

“What happened to you is a travesty and I can’t even imagine what you went through and how terrible those days and nights must have been for all those years,” she continued.

The revelation of Brazile’s help for Clinton is ironic given the circumstances by which she came to be interim head of the DNC. She took the position in July after DNC emails released by Wikileaks that month showed that then-chair Debbie Wasserman Schultz was highly critical of Clinton’s primary opponent, Bernie Sanders.

The email also undercuts Brazile’s claim throughout the primaries that she was a neutral commentator regarding Clinton and Sanders.

Brazile did not issue an endorsement until June 7, when Clinton routed Sanders in California.

“I’ve maintained my neutrality, and that’s very important to me as an officer, but I want to say how incredibly important his campaign, I think, has been this entire political season,” she said at the time.

The Washington Post was convinced that Brazile was neutral. After Brazile took over as interim head of the DNC, The Post’s Callum Borchers wrote:

While Wasserman Schultz was constantly accused by the Sanders campaign of harboring a pro-Clinton bias, Brazile, a regular presence on CNN during coverage of debates and state primaries, consistently provided impartial analysis.

Brazile, a longtime party consultant, responded to The Daily Caller’s request for comment.

“What a stretch,” she wrote, adding that she was forwarding the request to the DNC.

Barbara Levin, CNN’s vice president of communications, denied sharing the town hall questions with Brazile.

“To be perfectly clear, we have never, ever given a town hall question to anyone beforehand,” she told TheDC.

This post has been updated with comments from Brazile and CNN.  

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