Oh, they had the balls to just come out and lie. The first media report - and the source for all later reports - was The Daily BEast report, and it acknowledges that the CArson campaign was their source. It claims that other reporters were told about it before them - calling the Carson campaign for a story while the meeting was still going on, but if so not one of them wrote or said a word about it so the Carson campaign had nothing to bellyache about. If they hadn’t squealed to The Daily Beast nothing would have come out in the media.
To break the ice, I just read this on BI, “fat chicks dont vote because they have to go out in public. Hillary loses.”