{"id":54728,"date":"2016-11-03T16:05:13","date_gmt":"2016-11-03T20:05:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=54728"},"modified":"2016-11-03T16:05:30","modified_gmt":"2016-11-03T20:05:30","slug":"bernie-sanders-how-could-you-possibly-endorse-hrc-after-this","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=54728","title":{"rendered":"Bernie Sanders, how could you possibly endorse HRC after this?"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1 class=\"article__heading\">\u2018Obama betrayer &amp; false promiser\u2019: Sanders blasted in #PodestaEmails 27<\/h1>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>RT.com<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_54731\" style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/581b2194c36188121a8b4628.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-54731\" class=\"wp-image-54731\" src=\"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/581b2194c36188121a8b4628.jpg\" alt=\"581b2194c36188121a8b4628\" width=\"600\" height=\"333\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/581b2194c36188121a8b4628.jpg 900w, https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/581b2194c36188121a8b4628-300x167.jpg 300w, https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/581b2194c36188121a8b4628-768x427.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-54731\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">This is the 27th release of Podesta&#8217;s emails from WikiLeaks. \u00a9 Brian Snyder \/ Reuters<\/p><\/div>\n<p>More emails from Hillary Clinton\u2019s campaign chair John Podesta have been released by WikiLeaks. The emails also show frustration with Benjamin Netanyahu and Bernie Sanders.<\/p>\n<div class=\"article__text text \">\n<p>The latest batch consists of over one thousand\u00a0emails, bringing the number released so far to over 44,000. WikiLeaks said it will publish a total of 50,000 emails in the run up to next week\u2019s presidential election.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rt.com\/usa\/365082-wikileaks-releases-podesta-emails\/\">READ MORE: WikiLeaks releases 26th batch of #PodestaEmails from Clinton campaign chair<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Yesterday WikiLeaks released the 26th batch of emails, shedding light on a relationship between Google and President Barack Obama dating back to September 2008 in which the internet giant helped the president\u2019s transition team set up \u2018secure data rooms\u2019.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Frustration with Benjamin Netanyahu<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In the latest release frustration is expressed about Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. A mail from Clinton aide Neera Tanden to Podesta asks why the White House isn\u2019t asking for <em>\u201cproof of his support for 2-state solutions. Like a settlement freeze?\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cGiven nature of gov&#8217;t- he may not be able to do but it proves the point then,\u201d<\/em> Tanden says in the <a href=\"http:\/\/wikileaks.org\/podesta-emails\/emailid\/44188\">mail<\/a> from March 2015.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Bernie Sanders \u2018Obama betrayer\u2019<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A February 2016 <a href=\"http:\/\/wikileaks.org\/podesta-emails\/emailid\/44131\">exchange<\/a> between strategist Joel Johnson and Podesta discusses possible attacks on Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders \u2013 Clinton\u2019s rival for the Democratic nomination at the time. Bernie <em>\u201cneeds to be ground to a pulp,\u201d<\/em> Johnson says. <em>\u201cCrush him as hard as you can.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cWhere would you stick the knife in?\u201d<\/em> Podesta asks in response.<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cObama betrayer (Wh will affirm). Hapless legislator (Senators\/members will affirm). False promiser (policy elites will affirm). Can&#8217;t win (black people will affirm),\u201d<\/em> Johnson fires back.<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u2018Off the reservation\u2019 on TPP<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>An<a href=\"http:\/\/wikileaks.org\/podesta-emails\/emailid\/44473\"> email<\/a> chain from March 2016 discusses a Politico <a href=\"http:\/\/www.politico.com\/story\/2016\/03\/hillary-clinton-bernie-sanders-trade-220985\">article<\/a> which reports <em>\u201cClinton faced internal pressure from her Brooklyn headquarters to oppose the Trans-Pacific Partnership trade deal she helped craft as secretary of State.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cDo not get our spin here,\u201d<\/em> Gene Sperling, former economic policy assistant to both Bill Clinton and Obama says. <em>\u201cWhy we not hyping claw back, ROO, out front on\u00a0steel, tough enforcement on China?! Was this just her not talking to any of us and off on her own take?(But Joel is in there ) please clarify.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Joel Benenson, a senior Clinton strategist is quoted in the piece.<\/p>\n<p>Tanden replies, <em>\u201cIs Joel off reservation? Does he not get that this story makes Hillary seem politically craven at best or a liar at worse? Or if this is campaign position, can I object?\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cHard to say she believes what she says when Joel is spinning that she doesn&#8217;t mean what she is out there saying,\u201d<\/em> she adds.<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u2018Get the talkers under control\u2019 after Bill Clinton article<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A March 2015 <a href=\"http:\/\/wikileaks.org\/podesta-emails\/emailid\/44241\">chain<\/a> discusses getting <em>\u201cthe talkers under control\u201d<\/em> following a New York Times article about the necessity for Bill Clinton to have a minder on the campaign trail.<\/p>\n<p>Bill\u2019s aide Tina Flournoy writes, <em>\u201cnot happy about this,\u201d<\/em> linking to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2015\/03\/29\/us\/politics\/to-avert-repeat-of-2008-clinton-team-hopes-to-keep-bill-at-his-best.html?_r=0\">article<\/a>, <em>\u201cTo Avert Repeat of 2008, Clinton Team Hopes to Keep Bill at His Best.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cIt does feel like some people who should know better took an opportunity to talk about WJC\/his potential role in a way that is not helpful,\u201d<\/em> she adds.<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cFor me this just reinforces need to get the talkers under control,\u201d<\/em> replies Jennifer Palmieri, Hillary Clinton\u2019s director of communications.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Email release<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Not all emails were released to the public in March 2015, according to a <a href=\"http:\/\/wikileaks.org\/podesta-emails\/emailid\/43555\">message<\/a> to political consultant Jim Margolis from Clinton\u2019s chief strategist Joel Benenson.<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cIf there is a release of the 55K, are there others that are not being released?\u201d<\/em> Margolis asks, to which Benenson replies <em>\u201cDefinitely\u201d<\/em>.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">State Dept \u2018cleared\u2019 reports on <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Clinton?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Clinton<\/a> emails while in close touch with her team &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/PodestaEmails?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#PodestaEmails<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/AfBGaGO9yO\">https:\/\/t.co\/AfBGaGO9yO<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/gIauGqXsUo\">pic.twitter.com\/gIauGqXsUo<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; RT America (@RT_America) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RT_America\/status\/794007444817117184?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 3, 2016<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><strong>Super PACs and \u2018legally permissible ways\u2019<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A May 2015 <a href=\"http:\/\/wikileaks.org\/podesta-emails\/emailid\/43277\">email<\/a> from Robby Mook to Clinton discusses in an attachment<em> \u201coptions\u201d<\/em> for the campaign in a <em>\u201cpost-Citizens United\u201d<\/em> environment.<\/p>\n<p>Citizens United was a Supreme Court decision about restructured campaign finance allowing donors to make unlimited campaign donations through Super PACS.<\/p>\n<p>PACS are not allowed to work with campaigns directly. The memo identifies<em> \u201clegally permissible ways to leverage political party and outside groups to best advance the campaign\u2019s interests.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Death penalty \u2018worries\u2019 HRC<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In an <a href=\"http:\/\/wikileaks.org\/podesta-emails\/emailid\/43962\">email<\/a> in which Democratic party chair Donna Brazile further discusses sending debate questions to Clinton\u2019s camp, she tells Podesta and Jennifer Palmieri that a question on the death penalty <em>\u201cworries me about HRC.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Brazile no longer at CNN after WikiLeaks reveals she gave debate questions to Clinton camp at least twice <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/oBmvJcWYXd\">https:\/\/t.co\/oBmvJcWYXd<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/9WX9YwQ0vn\">pic.twitter.com\/9WX9YwQ0vn<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; RT (@RT_com) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RT_com\/status\/793345580877492224?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 1, 2016<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>In a report by <a href=\"http:\/\/theintercept.com\/2016\/03\/17\/hillary-clintons-indefensible-stance-on-the-death-penalty\/\">The Intercept<\/a> following the debate they said <em>\u201cif there was anything surprising about Hillary Clinton\u2019s defense of capital punishment when questioned by an Ohio death row exoneree Sunday night, it was only that she was not better prepared to deliver it.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<div class=\"rtcode\"><center><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/9FWYzMSKl2c\" width=\"854\" height=\"480\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/center><\/div>\n<div class=\"rtcode\"><\/div>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">\ud83d\udc4f\ud83c\udffe THEY \ud83d\udc4f\ud83c\udffe WERE \ud83d\udc4f\ud83c\udffe RIGGING \ud83d\udc4f\ud83c\udffe THE \ud83d\udc4f\ud83c\udffe PRIMARY \ud83d\udc4f\ud83c\udffe BACK \ud83d\udc4f\ud83c\udffe IN \ud83d\udc4f\ud83c\udffe 2014 \ud83d\udc4f\ud83c\udffe<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/PodestaEmails27?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#PodestaEmails27<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/PodestaEmails?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#PodestaEmails<\/a><br \/>Email ID 43823 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/IvduJM5umS\">pic.twitter.com\/IvduJM5umS<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Petty Is Praxis (@rtyson82) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/rtyson82\/status\/794168874459508736?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 3, 2016<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><strong>Planning to change primaries in 2014<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>An <a href=\"http:\/\/wikileaks.org\/podesta-emails\/emailid\/43823\">email<\/a> from Mook to Cheryl Mills shows Clinton aides discussing ways to push primary dates as early as April 2014.<\/p>\n<p>Mooks details a strategy meeting with Berman, likely campaign consultant for delegate strategy Jeff Berman.<\/p>\n<p>Berman, himself a superdelegate, was a lobbyist who pushed for the Keystone XL pipeline and worked for Obama during the 2008 election.<\/p>\n<p>Mook details pushing Massachusetts and Vermont back, trying to get Louisiana and West Virginia to join Super Tuesday and <em>\u201ckeep the big blue states (NY, NJ, CA, etc) from moving their primaries earlier.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cWe agreed that if she gets a significant primary challenger, we need to\u00a0consider changing course and getting NY, NJ, and maybe others to move their dates earlier to give her hefty early wins,\u201d<\/em> Mook says.<\/p>\n<p>The two discussed the need to limit <em>\u201cas much as possible, the perception of direct intervention.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>___<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.rt.com\/usa\/365219-podesta-emails-clinton-wikileaks\/\">http:\/\/www.rt.com\/usa\/365219-podesta-emails-clinton-wikileaks\/<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u2018Obama betrayer &amp; 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