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The recent leak of emails allegedly belonging to Hillary Clinton\u2019s campaign chairman reveals a confidant’s frustration with the former secretary of state\u2019s daughter, former President Bill Clinton \u201closing it\u201d during a tough 2016 primary contest and a general coziness with numerous members of the media.<\/p>\n
And much more.<\/p>\n
The trove of John Podesta\u2019s emails from anti-secrecy group WikiLeaks so far has been published in three massive sections \u2013 released on Friday, Monday and Tuesday. Though more than 5,000 alleged Podesta emails already have been made public in the document dump, they\u2019re a mere fraction of the 50,000-plus emails WikiLeaks claims to have.<\/p>\n
Here are seven of the biggest revelations so far:<\/p>\n
\u2018SPOILED BRAT\u2019<\/b><\/p>\n
Top Bill Clinton lieutenant\u00a0Doug Band, in an alleged 2011 exchange with Podesta, tore into Chelsea Clinton, who had apparently been raising questions about the company Band co-founded, Teneo.<\/p>\n
\u201cI don\u2019t deserve this from her and deserve a tad more respect or at least a direct dialogue for me to explain these things,\u201d Band wrote in November. \u201cShe is acting like a spoiled brat kid who had nothing else to do but create issues to justify what she\u2019s doing because she, as she has said, hasn\u2019t found her way and has a lack of focus in her life.\u201d<\/p>\n
BILL CLINTON \u2018LOSING IT\u2019<\/b><\/p>\n
Bill Clinton has long had a soft spot for New Hampshire, the state that made him the \u201cComeback Kid\u201d and helped propel him to the Democratic nomination in 1992. So when it seemed on Feb. 7 that Hillary Clinton was set to lose the state\u2019s primary by a large margin, Bill did not take the news well.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe\u2019s losing it bad today,\u201d Bill Clinton chief of staff Tina Flournoy wrote. \u201cI\u2019m not with him. If you\u2019re in NH please see if you can talk to him.\u201d<\/p>\n
Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders went on to beat Clinton in the Granite State 60-to-38 percent on Feb. 9.<\/p>\n
Bill Clinton wasn\u2019t alone in his despondency.<\/p>\n
Neera Tanden, an activist and past adviser to Hillary Clinton, wrote to Podesta on Feb. 4: \u201cWhat is wrong w the people of Nh?\u201d<\/p>\n
COZY WITH THE PRESS<\/b><\/p>\n
The alleged Podesta emails show a particular level of comfort with certain members of the news media.<\/p>\n
CNBC correspondent John Harwood emailed Podesta numerous times, on some occasions to request an interview and other times to offer advice. On May 8, 2015, Harwood wrote an email with the subject line \u201cWatch out.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cBen Carson could give you real trouble in a general [election],\u201d Harwood wrote before linking to video clips of an interview Harwood did with the former pediatric neurosurgeon.<\/p>\n
In a July 2015 email, New York Times reporter Mark Leibovich emailed communications director Jennifer Palmieri several chunks of an interview he did with Hillary Clinton, and seemingly asked permission for the \u201coption to use the following\u201d portions. Palmieri suggested he cut a reference Clinton made to Sarah Palin and remove Clinton\u2019s quote, \u201cAnd gay rights has moved much faster than women\u2019s rights or civil rights, which is an interesting phenomenon.\u201d<\/p>\n
Palmieri ended one email: \u201cPleasure doing business!\u201d<\/p>\n
In a January 2015 memo, former Politico reporter Maggie Haberman, who now works for The New York Times, was described as having \u201ca very good relationship\u201d with the campaign.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe have had her tee up stories for us before and have never been disappointed,\u201d the memo said.<\/p>\n
HOPING FOR TRUMP<\/b><\/p>\n
Hillary Clinton allies were apparently hoping the Republican primary electorate would nominate Donald Trump as the GOP candidate for president.<\/p>\n
Media commentator Brent Budowsky wrote to Podesta on March 13 that \u201cRight now I am petrified that Hillary is almost totally dependent on Republicans nominating Trump.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201c\u2026..even a clown like Ted Cruz would be an even money bet to beat and this scares the hell of out me\u2026..\u201d Budowsky wrote.<\/p>\n
A Democrat National Committee strategy document from April 7, 2015 also wrote about \u201celevating the Pied Piper candidates,\u201d identified as Trump, Cruz and Carson.<\/p>\n
WALL STREET SPEECHES<\/b><\/p>\n
Campaign research director Tony Carrk emailed top Clinton advisers on Jan. 25 with some \u201cflags from HRC\u2019s paid speeches\u201d that were given during the time between her tenure as secretary of state and when she announced her presidential candidacy. Clinton has not released transcripts of those speeches despite numerous calls from her primary and general election opponents.<\/p>\n
Among the red flags is Clinton admitting she\u2019s \u201cKind Of Far Removed\u201d from middle-class struggles due to \u201cThe Economic, You Know, Fortunes That My Husband And I Now Enjoy.\u201d That speech was delivered to employees at Goldman-Black Rock on Feb. 4, 2014.<\/p>\n
In a line that came back to bite her in Sunday night\u2019s presidential debate, Clinton discussed needing \u201cBoth A Public And A Private Position\u201d during a speech for National Multi-Housing Council in April 2013.<\/p>\n
In other speeches, Clinton boasts of her ties to Wall Street, admits she needs Wall Street funding and says insiders are needed to fix problems on Wall Street. Sanders was a particular critic of Wall Street and so-called \u201ceconomic inequality\u201d during his protracted primary campaign against Clinton.<\/p>\n
In another speech, Clinton said her \u201cdream is a hemispheric common market, with open trade and open borders.\u201d<\/p>\n
SANDERS STRATEGY<\/b><\/p>\n
Throughout the alleged Podesta emails, aides debate tactics against Clinton\u2019s main 2016 primary rival, Sanders. Carrk forwarded a 71-page, nearly 50,000-word opposition research file on Oct. 28, 2015, picking apart nearly every policy and position of Sanders. \u201cAttached are some hits that could either be written or deployed during the next debate on Sanders,\u201d Carrk wrote.<\/p>\n
On Jan.6, campaign adviser Mandy Grunwald and Palmieri debated how to respond to Sanders\u2019 attacks on Clinton\u2019s ties to Wall Street.<\/p>\n
\u201cI liked messing with Bernie on wall street at a staff level for the purposes of muddying the waters and throwing them off their game a bit,\u201d Palmieri wrote. \u201cBut don\u2019t know that it is most effective contrast for her. Seems like we are picking the fight he wants to have.\u201d<\/p>\n
Grunwald replied: \u201cBernie wants a fight on a Wall Street. We should not give him one.\u201d<\/p>\n
ALLIES’ SUPPORT FOR ISIS?<\/b><\/p>\n
An alleged email sent from Hillary Clinton’s account to Podesta on Aug. 17, 2014, noted that ISIS was receiving financial and logistical support from Saudi Arabia and Qatar.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhile this military\/para-military operation is moving forward, we need to use our diplomatic and more traditional intelligence assets to bring pressure on the governments of Qatar and Saudi Arabia, which are providing clandestine financial and logistic support to [ISIS] and other radical Sunni groups in the region,\u201d the email said.<\/p>\n
It’s unclear whether the email was actually authored by Clinton.<\/p>\n
The Clinton campaign, meanwhile, has blasted WikiLeaks over the release, while ramping up its accusations that the group is working with the Russian government.<\/p>\n
“It is absolutely disgraceful that the Trump campaign is cheering on a release today engineered by Vladimir Putin to interfere in this election, and this comes after Donald Trump encouraged more espionage over the summer and continued to deny the hack even happened at\u00a0Sunday’s\u00a0debate,” spokesman Glen Caplin said in a statement. “The timing shows you that even Putin knows Trump had a bad weekend and a bad debate. The only remaining question is why Donald Trump continues to make apologies for the Russians.”<\/p>\n
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