Donald Trump believes leaked emails from the Democrat National Committee (DNC) have made it impossible for Bernie Sanders to ever endorse Hillary Clinton.
The GOP nominee reacted on Twitter Saturday to Wikileaks’ publication of 19,252 DNC emails just days before the beginning of the Democratic convention.
Some of the exchanges reveal how top Democrat officials planned to attack Sanders – mainly by making his campaign look incompetent and possibly by questioning his religious beliefs.
‘The Wikileaks e-mail release today was so bad to Sanders that it will make it impossible for him to support her, unless he is a fraud!’ Trump tweeted on Saturday afternoon.
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Donald Trump reacted to Wikileaks’ publication of Democrat National Committee emails, which appear to show plans to make Bernie Sanders’ campaign appear incompetent and to question his religious beliefs
The Republican nominee wrote in an earlier tweet: ‘Leaked e-mails of DNC show plans to destroy Bernie Sanders. Mock his heritage and much more. On-line from Wikileakes [sic], really vicious. RIGGED’
Wikileaks founder Julian Assange has expressed his disagreement with Clinton’s foreign policy and doesn’t believe she should become the next president of the United States.
He accused her of sending the country into ‘endless, stupid wars’ and calling her ‘a war hawk with bad judgement’ in a Wikileaks post published in February.
Wikileaks rolled out the DNC emails on Friday and presented them as ‘part one of our new Hillary Leaks series’.
Wikileaks rolled out the DNC emails on Friday and presented them as ‘part one of our new Hillary Leaks series’. Trump said the release had made it impossible for Sanders to ever endorse Clinton
One email dated May 21, titled ‘Bernie narrative’, seems to show Democratic Party press secretary Mark Paustenbach designing a strategy to make Sanders’ campaign look incompetent.
‘Wondering if there’s a good Bernie narrative for a story, which is that Bernie never ever had his act together, that his campaign was a mess,’ the email reads.
‘Specifically, DWS had to call Bernie directly in order to get the campaign to do things because they’d either ignored or forgotten to something critical. She had to call Bernie after the data breach to make his staff to respond to our concerns.
‘Even then they didn’t get back to us, which is why we had to shut off their access in order to get them to finally let us know exactly how they snooped around HFA’s data. Same was true with the standing committee appointments. They never got back to us with their names (HFA and even O’Malley got there’s in six weeks earlier) for the committees.
‘So, again, the chair had to call Bernie personally for his staff to finally get us critical information. So, they gave us an awful list just a few days before we had to make the announcements.
‘It’s not a DNC conspiracy, it’s because they never had their act together.’
Another email seems to reveal plans to question Sanders’ religious beliefs.
The conversation, dated May 5, is titled ‘No s**t’. DNC chief financial officer Brad Marshall appears to have written: ‘It might may no difference, but for KY and WVA can we get someone to ask his belief. Does he believe in a God.
‘He had skated on saying he has a Jewish heritage. I think I read he is an atheist. This could make several points difference with my peeps.
‘My Southern Baptist peeps would draw a big difference between a Jew and an atheist.’
DNC chief executive officer Amy Dacey seems to have replied: ‘AMEN’
The emails don’t mention Sanders by name or identify who ‘he’ is in reference to.
Marshall told the Intercept in an email: ‘I do not recall this. I can say it would not have been Sanders. It would probably be about a surrogate.’
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Trump (pictured at the Republican National Convention on Thursday) mentioned the leaked emails on Twitter, writing: ‘On-line from Wikileakes [sic], really vicious. RIGGED’
Wikileaks founder Julian Assange has expressed his disagreement with Clinton (pictured with running mate Tim Kaine in Miami, Florida on Saturday) and doesn’t believe she should become the next president
Some of the exchanges published by Wikileaks reveal how top Democrat officials planned to attack Bernie Sanders (pictured in June) – mainly by making his campaign look incompetent
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