A new leak of internal emails from the Democratic National Committee
appears to support the long-held suspicions of some Bernie Sanders supporters that the DNC was working against him.
WikiLeaks released the 19,252 emails Friday,
which came from “seven key figures” in the DNC, including
communications director Luis Miranda and national finance director
Jordon Kaplan.
One email from May shows CFO Brad Marshall suggesting that they use religion against a certain possible atheist with a Jewish heritage:
From:MARSHALL@dnc.org To: MirandaL@dnc.org, PaustenbachM@dnc.org, DaceyA@dnc.org Date: 2016-05-05 03:31 Subject: No shit
It
might may no difference, but for KY and WVA can we get someone to ask
his belief. Does he believe in a God. He had skated on saying he has a
Jewish heritage. I think I read he is an atheist. This could make
several points difference with my peeps. My Southern Baptist peeps would
draw a big difference between a Jew and an atheist.
The email doesn’t mention Sanders by name, and
Marshall told The Intercept that he was likely referring to “a surrogate,”
not the independent Vermont senator himself. He did not elaborate on
who such a surrogate could be. (It’s also unclear how this referring to a
“surrogate” would make it a less questionable tactic. )
Another email shows national press secretary Mark Paustenpach
suggesting an anti-Bernie “narrative” for a story.
“Wondering if there’s a good Bernie narrative for a story, which is
that Bernie never ever had his act together, that his campaign was a
mess,” Paustenpach wrote in a May email to Luis Miranda. He lists
several examples of such “messiness” and concludes by saying, “It’s not a
DNC conspiracy, it’s because they never had their act together.”
While the WikiLeaks database is searchable,
Heavy.com has compiled a comprehensive list of
some other intriguing emails about the DNC’s treatment of Sanders,
including committee chair Debbie Wasserman Schultz writing that it’s
“silly” to speculate about Sanders ever being president and Kaplan referring to him as
obnoxious.
In an ironic twist, one leaked email revals deputy communications director Eric Walker mocking Buzzfeed for writing that the
DNC had bad cybersecurity.
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