The important point is that the Hillary team thought they had all pertinent republican leadership on board with handing her the presidency.
Anyone perpetrating a conspiracy, especially one this size and scope, will by virtue of their conspiratorial role be vulnerable to paranoia.
Think of it this way: Does it make any sense at all to think someone like Hillary would have several decades to plan for this and not include in her plan a way to recruit her opposition to be secretly on her side during the campaign?
This Tanden gal needs to be searched through all the dumps to see if she’s said something similary before.