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| #Podesta: WikiLeaks releases 9th batch of emails from Clinton campaign chair | #Podesta: WikiLeaks releases 9th batch of emails from Clinton campaign chair |
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| WikiLeaks have uploaded yet another batch of emails from Hillary Clinton’s campaign chair, John Podesta. This ninth release brings the total number of leaked files to over 12,000. | WikiLeaks have uploaded yet another batch of emails from Hillary Clinton’s campaign chair, John Podesta. This ninth release brings the total number of leaked files to over 12,000. |
| Among the hundreds of emails released Sunday are discussions about appealing to black voters, Hillary's email apologies, and Chelsea Clinton being described by one of her father's longtime aides as a ‘backstabber’. | |
| Ranging from how to take down Sanders, to strategizing around sexual assault allegations against Bill Clinton, multiple aspects of the Clinton campaign have been laid open to public consumption through a series of WikiLeaks releases this week. | Ranging from how to take down Sanders, to strategizing around sexual assault allegations against Bill Clinton, multiple aspects of the Clinton campaign have been laid open to public consumption through a series of WikiLeaks releases this week. |
| The thousands of emails already released also cover topics including US allies Saudi Arabia and Qatar clandestinely funding ISIS, the Clinton campaign’s efforts to handle the media, and courting billionaire donors. You name it, John Podesta sent or received an email about it. | |
| Courting black voters | Courting black voters |
| The latest leaked emails highlight campaign concerns that Clinton is not doing enough to appeal to black voters. In the messages between Frank White Jr, who raised over $2.3mn for Barack Obama during his 2012 re-election campaign, and John Podesta, White writes: “I'm hearing the same complaint in political circles that I continue to hear while fundraising. ‘The campaign doesn't value black folks and takes us for granted’.” | The latest leaked emails highlight campaign concerns that Clinton is not doing enough to appeal to black voters. In the messages between Frank White Jr, who raised over $2.3mn for Barack Obama during his 2012 re-election campaign, and John Podesta, White writes: “I'm hearing the same complaint in political circles that I continue to hear while fundraising. ‘The campaign doesn't value black folks and takes us for granted’.” |
| Podesta responds: “I have been working on that and will resolve soon. We need to strengthen the overall structure and this is the most critical piece of that.” | Podesta responds: “I have been working on that and will resolve soon. We need to strengthen the overall structure and this is the most critical piece of that.” |
| READ MORE: RT beats internet to break #Podestaemails6 & everybody loses their minds (conspiracy theory warning) | READ MORE: RT beats internet to break #Podestaemails6 & everybody loses their minds (conspiracy theory warning) |
| Hillary’s apology problem | |
| Hillary’s difficulty with apologizing was acknowledged as her “Achilles heel” in earlier leaked emails. The latest emails underscore the issue with an exchange between campaign aides about public perception of her expressions of regret over her email server controversy. | |
| Clinton’s “inability to just do a national interview and communicate genuine feelings of remorse and regret is now, I fear, becoming a character problem (more so than honesty),” warns Clinton ally Neera Tanden. | |
| “Trying to figure out how to get her there and best way to execute,” Podesta responds. | |
| Heated exchange | |
| Sunday’s leaks carry a heated exchange between former Clinton Foundation COO and current advisor Laura Graham and longtime Clinton aide Cheryl Mills over budget concerns. In the emails, Graham pushes the importance of support for her role, writing: “I need an assistant. I won't go wo one. I cannot do this all by myself.” | |
| At one point, Mills forwards the thread of emails to Podesta, and he jokingly responds: “Can we do an HBO movie when this is all over?” | |
| These emails came just weeks after Bill Clinton aide Doug Band highlighted serious concerns over Graham’s mental health, allegedly due to the strain of working at the Foundation and with the Clintons. He wrote that Graham had appeared suicidal and contacted him for help “as she couldn't reach my brother or her shrink.” | |
| “She called me to tell me the stress of all of this office crap with wjc and cvc as well as that of her family had driven her to the edge and she couldn't take it anymore,” Band said. | |
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