When Donna Brazile came out with her book, indicating that the Clinton campaign had negotiated a deal in 2015 giving her control over the DNC, even before the field of competitive candidates had been assembled, it merely affirmed what those of us in the Sanders camp were already talking about during the campaign. The only surprise was that there was now some pretty good proof to back it up.
Immediately, a flame war started between the I Told You So camp and the Clinton Can Do No Wrong camp. What’s hard to believe and accept is what the Clinton apologists were considering as evidence to back up their position. Really, someone tweeted a denial? You’re kidding me, Tom Perez, who had ousted Sanders sympathizers from the DNC, issued a misleading statement? I guess we should just take the Trump Administration at their word when they call the whole Russia thing a witch hunt. I mean a denial is solid refutation in these parts, is it not?
Well, Perez’s denial lasted all of a few hours before it was blown out of the water with facts. It seems that the joint funding agreement that Perez tried to obfuscate with, the one that was indeed signed by both campaigns, was not the document that Brazile was referring to, and there was indeed a 2015 agreement that gave the Clinton campaign staffing and policy oversight over the DNC.
We all witnessed the ridiculously truncated debate schedule, the passing of debate questions to the Clinton Camp, and the phony denial of access to the DNC database. I’m ready to move on and look forward, but not by covering up the past with a load of bullshit. Let’s keep it factual, clarify history, and then work together, unified in assuring that it never happens again.