64 hours in October: How one weekend blew up the rules of American politics

Yahoo! News ^ | October 6, 2017 | Staff

[2ndDivisionVet]

It began as a relatively quiet day in the presidential campaign. Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump were each holed up with their aides on Friday, Oct. 7, 2016, preparing for the second presidential debate, scheduled for Sunday night. Hurricane Matthew, which was churning off the Florida coast, led the Friday-morning newscasts. The Chicago Cubs were beginning a quest for their first World Series title in more than a century. But by midafternoon three separate bombshells, all coming within the span of roughly 90 minutes, threatened to throw the race into chaos.

First, the top intelligence officials of the Obama administration announced their belief that the Russian government was behind the hacking of the Democratic National Committee earlier in the year. Then the Washington Post published published the infamous “Access Hollywood” tape in which Donald Trump bragged about forcing himself on women. And WikiLeaks dumped its trove of emails from the Clinton campaign, hacked from the account of campaign head John Podesta.

Yahoo News conducted nearly two dozen on-the-record interviews with top officials inside and outside the Clinton and Trump campaigns and the Obama administration, as well as major media figures in Washington, New York and beyond, to produce an exclusive oral history of the wildest 64 hours in modern political history.

The resulting documentary film and online feature present a firsthand account of three pivotal days in the campaign and paint a vivid picture of the behind-the-scenes drama that unfolded inside the Post newsroom, Trump Tower, Clinton campaign headquarters in Brooklyn, Clinton’s Westchester County, N.Y., hotel, and the debate site in St. Louis.....

[cynwoody]

As I recall, they screwed up and released the video early, on the Friday before the debate, allowing Trump time to counterattack by trotting out four of BJC's victims in front of the media before the debate and having them in the debate's live audience. It was a hoot watching BJC's face during the debate.

The video was supposed to have been released the morning after the debate, in order to wipe out any Trump bounce from a good debate performance.

[Harmless Teddy Bear]

hen the Washington Post published published the infamous “Access Hollywood” tape in which Donald Trump bragged about forcing himself on women.

Someone call the fire department. The Yahoo staff seem to have incendiary britches.

[wiggen]

that took awhile but a great article. Engrossing.

[HamiltonJay]

Don’t point out facts.... the narrative can’t be contradicted.

[NorthMountain]

infamous “Access Hollywood” tape in which Donald Trump bragged about forcing himself on women.

Bullshit!!!

I'm sick of liars in Big Media.

[BipolarBob]

I missed the part where Russians made me vote for Trump against my will.

[uncbob]

I remember going to a Tom Jones concert back in the early 70s where he comes out with what looks like a zukini in his pants

A hell of a lot of women in that audience would have serviced him right on stage

[Intolerant in NJ]

The idea of “force” wasn’t present at all - he said “they’ll let you do anything” as in they’ll give you permission......