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| Wikileaks has released its 12th batch of emails from Hillary Clinton’s campaign chair John Podesta. The brings the total number of emails released to date to almost 19,000. | Wikileaks has released its 12th batch of emails from Hillary Clinton’s campaign chair John Podesta. The brings the total number of emails released to date to almost 19,000. |
| WikiLeaks has previously stated that there are around 50,000 emails in total, with previous leaks exposing the Clinton campaign’s cozy relationship with the media, its efforts to stop former Democratic candidate Bernie Sanders making the White House and the long-awaited speeches Clinton gave to Goldman Sachs. | WikiLeaks has previously stated that there are around 50,000 emails in total, with previous leaks exposing the Clinton campaign’s cozy relationship with the media, its efforts to stop former Democratic candidate Bernie Sanders making the White House and the long-awaited speeches Clinton gave to Goldman Sachs. |
| READ MORE: #PodestaEmails: Politico journalist seeks OK from Clinton before running story | READ MORE: #PodestaEmails: Politico journalist seeks OK from Clinton before running story |
| Tuesday’s release included a list of potential vice presidential picks, categorized by race and gender, opposition research on Trump, and staffers describing Sanders as a “doofus” and saying they “f*cking hate” potential Democratic nominee Larry Lessig. | Tuesday’s release included a list of potential vice presidential picks, categorized by race and gender, opposition research on Trump, and staffers describing Sanders as a “doofus” and saying they “f*cking hate” potential Democratic nominee Larry Lessig. |
| A September 2015 email exchange between Podesta and Nick Merrill provided “core language” to be used in response to questions Clinton could be asked about her email server, and the decision to “bleach” emails from it. | |
| The emails contain long and short versions of responses for Clinton. | |
| “Because the government already had everything that was work-related, and my personal emails were just that – personal – I didn’t see a reason to keep them so I asked that they be deleted, and that’s what the company that managed my server did. And we notified Congress of that back in March,” the mail reads. | |
| Another answer is provided for the question, “Why won’t you say whether you wiped it?” | |
| “After we went through the process to determine what was work related and what was not and provided the work related emails to State, I decided not to keep the personal ones,” the response reads. | |
| “We saved the work-related ones on a thumb drive that is now with the Department of Justice. And as I said in March, I chose not to keep the personal ones. I asked that they be deleted, how that happened was up to the company that managed the server. And they are cooperating fully with anyone that has questions.” | |
| In a September 2015 email to Podesta, Hill columnist Brent Budowsky criticized the campaign for allegedly giving Clinton surrogates talking points to attack Bernie Sanders. | |
| “I cannot think of anything more stupid and self-destructive for a campaign to do,” he says. “Especially for a candidate who has dangerously low levels of public trust,” and in light of Sanders’ campaign being based on “cleaning up politics.” | |
| Budowsky warns voters would be “disgusted” by attacks against Sanders and says he wouldn’t discourage Podesta from sharing the note with Clinton because “if she wants to become president she needs to understand the point I am making with crystal clarity.” | |
| Budowsky says he was at a Washington university where “not one student gave enough of a damn for Hillary to open a booth, or even wear a Hillary button.” | |
| Budowsky goes on to volunteer to write talking points himself. | |
| In a separate email exchange from June 30, 2015, Budowsky contacted Podesta regarding a piece he wrote which he describes as being “positive” and “carefully written” to aid Clinton’s campaign. | |
| “John, I have only 1 mention of HRC, positive, carefully written, and designed to give her some cover with liberals,” Budowsky writes. | |
| Moderate or Progressive? | |
| Clinton’s description of herself as a moderate Democrat at a September 2015 event in Ohio causes some uproar amongst her team. In a mail from Neera Tanden to Podesta in the days following the comment she asks why she said this. | |
| “I pushed her on this on Sunday night. She claims she didn't remember saying it. Not sure I believe her,” Podesta replies. Tanden insists that the comment has made her job more difficult after “telling every reporter I know she's actually progressive”. | |
| “It worries me more that she doesn't seem to know what planet we are all living in at the moment,” she adds. | |
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