“he had some non-so-nice things to say about Hillary, and one of Hillary’s people responded with a not-so-nice comment.”
I think it was more than a “comment”. Didn’t he say he had a run-in with Hillary’s “goons” or “thugs” because of his anti-Hillary stance?
Yea, that was the public part (the tweets). There was a clear implication that they had private ‘correspondence’ with Mr. Bourdain.