Now, the Donna Brazile story, which is based on the chapter in her book excerpted today in The Politico. “When I was asked to run the Democratic Party after the Russians hacked our emails, I stumbled onto a shocking truth about the Clinton campaign.” Now, where we left off with this in the over-the-air program today was Donna Brazile saying, “My predecessor, Florida Rep. Debbie [“Blabbermouth”] Schultz, had not been the most active chair in fundraising at a time when President Barack Obama’s neglect had left the party in significant debt.”
So right in that sentence, in this book, she throws Debbie “Blabbermouth” Schultz to the wolves and Barack Obama to the bottom of Lake Michigan. “Blabbermouth” Schultz was horrible at fundraising, Obama didn’t care, and so party was in total, total debt. “As Hillary’s campaign gained momentum,” she started collecting more money from her own fundraising, and she paid off the Democrat National Committee debt that Debbie “Blabbermouth” Schultz had built up and Obama didn’t care about. Doing that, gave her control of the party. According to Donna Brazile, this is how Hillary, in 2015, took over the Democrat Party. All of this leads up to the charge that the Democrat National Committee rigged the primaries against Crazy Bernie. The purpose of her story is here to do the investigation — which she did — and she learned, sadly, that it had indeed happened and that she had to light a candle and put on the gospel music to prepare her for the call to Crazy Bernie to tell him that, in fact, he had been cheated. So we resume at that point.
“By September 7, the day I called [Crazy] Bernie, I had found my proof and it broke my heart. The Saturday morning after the convention in July, I called Gary Gensler, the chief financial officer of Hillary’s campaign. He wasted no words. He told me the Democratic Party was broke and $2 million in debt.” Brazile writes, “‘What?’ I screamed. ‘I am an officer of the party and they’ve been telling us everything is fine and they were raising money with no problems.’
“That wasn’t true, he said. Officials from Hillary’s campaign had taken a look at the DNC’s books. Obama left the party $24 million in debt…” Now, this should surprise nobody. Obama never cared about the party. Everything was there to service and serve him. He didn’t care about the party. As far as Obama’s concerned, he made the party. He was the party! So, if the DNC didn’t have any money, fine and dandy. He did, and he was the party. So they were “$24 million in debt — $15 million in bank debt and more than $8 million owed to vendors after the 2012 campaign…” Obama had not paid off all of his debts from the 2012 convention, or was “paying that off very slowly. Obama’s campaign was not scheduled to pay it off until 2016. Hillary for America (the campaign) and the Hillary Victory Fund (its joint fundraising vehicle with the DNC)…” There’s two different fundraising operations here.
The Hillary Victory Fund, she shared the money with the DNC. Hillary for America was her presidential campaign. They “had taken care of 80% of the remaining debt in 2016, about $10 million” of it, anyway, “and had placed the [DNC] on an allowance.” The point here is that by paying off all that debt and then putting the DNC on an allowance, she took control of it and then limited what the DNC could do in service to both candidates in the primary.
So what Brazile is maintaining here is that the party was in debt, the DNC was in debt because Obama hadn’t cared and Debbie “Blabbermouth” Schultz was bad. Hillary takes it over, retires the debt from all the slush money she’s raising, and then — after taking over the DNC — didn’t let them operate, thereby squeezing out Crazy Bernie. Now, Brazile says, “If I didn’t know about this, I assumed that none of the other officers knew about it, either. “That was just Debbie’s way. In my experience she didn’t come to the officers of the DNC for advice and counsel. She seemed to make decisions on her own and let us know at the last minute what she had decided, as she had done when she told us about the hacking only minutes before the Washington Post broke the news. On the phone Gary [Gensler] told me the DNC had needed a $2 million loan, which the campaign had arranged.”
Brazile writes, “‘No! That can’t be true!’ I said. ‘The party cannot take out a loan without the unanimous agreement of all of the officers.'” So she says she asked this Gensler guy, “‘Gary, how did they do this without me knowing?’ I asked. ‘I don’t know how Debbie relates to the officers,’ Gary said. He described the party as fully under the control of Hillary’s campaign, which seemed to confirm the suspicions of the Bernie camp.”
Now, here’s some insight on the way donations work. Individuals are allowed to give a maximum of $2,700 to the candidate. But if you wanted to give to the party or to the Hillary Victory Fund (which was a combination of her fundraising and the DNC), then you could give up to $373,000. The way it works out, “Individuals who had maxed out their $2,700 contribution limit to the campaign could write an additional check for $353,400 to the Hillary Victory Fund — that figure represented $10,000 to each of the 32 states’ parties … and $33,400 to the DNC.
“The money would be deposited in the states first, and transferred to the DNC shortly after that.” Brazile writes, “‘Wait,’ I said. ‘That victory fund was supposed to be for whoever was the nominee, and the state party races. You’re telling me that Hillary has been controlling it since before she got the nomination?'” The answer came back, “yes.” This is a long chapter that is designed to inform people that Hillary Clinton and her campaign wrested total control of the Democrat National Committee a year before the election because Debbie “Blabbermouth” Schultz was a lousy fundraiser and because Barack Obama had left the party in neglect.
And, in this way, Hillary was able to rig the primaries because it was her people running the party on a limited budget, and Brazile goes through all of this to explain her investigation leading up to that very, very bad moment she had to call Crazy Bernie and admit all of this to him. “I wanted to believe Hillary, who made campaign finance reform part of her platform. But I had made this pledge to Bernie and did not want to disappoint him. “I kept asking the party lawyers and the DNC staff to show me the agreements that the party had made for sharing the money they raised, but there was a lot of shuffling of feet and looking the other way. … Hillary would control the party’s finances, strategy, and all the money raised. Her campaign had the right of refusal of who would be the party communications director, and it would make final decisions on all the other staff. The DNC also was required to consult with the campaign about all other staffing, budgeting, data, analytics, and mailings.” They didn’t do it. You want a picture of total corruption? Donna Brazile is printing it. She is writing it. While everybody is trying to focus on collusion and Trump and the Russians, this stuff is literally confirming everything that we have known and suspected about the Clintons. Now, the question: “Why is Brazile doing this?” Don’t forget, this is the woman who cheated, helped Hillary cheat. This is the woman — when she was at CNN — sent Hillary debate questions in advance of a debate.
She sent Hillary the subjects that were gonna be discussed in the town hall — and remember when it was discovered, she said, “You know what? I need to have a come to Jesus.” So she went home, she lit another candle, and she played some gospel music, and she had to get in touch with God. These people are exactly what they accuse everybody else of being and doing. But there’s gotta be an even bigger reason why she’s doing this, and this is just one chapter in this book.
She’s throwing Hillary overboard — and, to a certain extent, Obama — and Debbie “Blabbermouth” Schultz. But, at the same time, she’s taken herself out of any of the shenanigans. She’s setting herself up as the person who saved the day by investigating and uncovering all of this. Now, these people have been thick as thieves. Donna Brazile, yeah, she worked for Gore in the 2000 race. But by the time Clinton and Gore assumed the White House and so forth…
Well, in the nineties, she went with Gore when he ran on his own, but they have been inseparable. Donna Brazile has run this party, has been intimately involved in every Democrat campaign either as an on-the-air analyst or as an actual campaign staffer. She’s run the DNC. She’s run various conventions — and now, all of a sudden, she’s separating herself, saying: I had nothing to do with this! There’s got to be a reason beyond just wanting to be distance from Hillary.
There has to be a reason for this, and, I’ll tell you what I think it is — and it’s a wild guess, ’cause nobody knows. Using intelligence guided by experience. It has to be that she is taking steps to protect herself if there ever is a real investigation of any of this. Because, while all this was going on? Don’t forget, prior to it, Hillary’s at the Department of State, the Uranium One deal is happening, and Hillary is selling access to her presidency before she’s elected to all of these foreign governments through the Clinton Foundation.
I think she thinks that if somebody ever starts to investigate this and it’s… You know, Trump owns the DOJ now. Not Obama. Not the Democrats. She’s trying to get it on the record that she was the one that was clean and pure as the wind-driven snow. She was the standup guy. She was the one that was outraged and distraught when she learned of all this corruption, and she did everything she could to fix it — including light a candle and fire up the gospel music in preparation for her call to Crazy Bernie.
Oh, and the kicker is, on that call to Crazy Bernie, she said (paraphrased), “Crazy Bernie, look. I know you’re angry. But, at this point in time, we must come together. The odds are simply too great. The stakes are too high! We can’t allow Trump in the White House. You’ve got to set this aside.” Of course, Crazy Bernie did ’cause they paid him off. Crazy Bernie, the avowed socialist, now has three houses.
And I think two and a half have been given to him, and his wife’s in some kind of conspiracy muck, you know, in Vermont. Now, I addressed all this with my prescience back on October 16th of 2015. It’s an audio sound bite where I told you… I forget what I had heard, but I’d heard something and I just knew that the primary was rigged for Hillary.
https://www.rushlimbaugh.com/daily/2017/11/02/the-rush-247-exclusive-4th-hour/
He was president wasn’t he?
Or was he just “present”?
30 years of experience tells me the Clintons are never investigated for anything. Why will this time be different?
Bernie Sanders wasn’t even a Democrat, before he was running in the primary.
It’ll be fun watching tap dance all around this; a real ego bruiser for his narcissistic demeanor.
Exactly. He had no more elections to run so the DNC and the democRat party were and are nothing to him. It was always all about him.
Blaming obama for anything?
Isn’t that racist?
I was surprised to see that Brazile’s story is as negative as it is toward Dems, esp. calling Obama “negligent” and not a good supporter of the Party. But then I guess she’s not going back so might as well torch a few bridges.
that’s racist... ;-)
Make sure your speakers are turned down low if you click on the link. Drives me crazy!
Obama left the party $24 million in debt…”
Doing to the DNC what he did to America.
She doesn’t need to worry about the DOJ. Rosenkrantz owns the DOJ.
He is no different than them - use ‘em up and throw ‘em away - only he got to do it to the “’em” that usually do it themselves....