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haroldpp's avatar

Lost in the IG report is this icky bit

"According to the testimony of the Attorney General in the IG report, nine days before the election she and the FBI Director discussed how a “deep and visceral hatred of Secretary Clinton” "

https://www.dailykos.com/st...

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Add the strategic decision of Hillary's campaign and DNC strategists to concoct the "pied-piper candidate" strategy, which required promotion of Trump so as to pull all the other Rep candidates to the right, which will make them all unelectable and which will give Hillary an unsurmountable lead with the electorate, and get the full force of the media behind this strategy. That strategy worked to a fault, as the saying goes.As a blurb from Salon put it:The Clinton campaign and Democratic National Committee called for using far-right candidates "as a cudgel to move the more established candidates further to the right." Clinton's camp insisted that Trump and other extremists should be "elevated" to "leaders of the pack" and media outlets should be told to "take them seriously."

Plus the originator of the whole idea: husband and ex-president Bill Clinton encouraged Trump to run while they were playing some rounds of golf.

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