email communication, they released voicemails of the DNC.
The voicemails are related to the batch of about 20,000
leaked emails WikiLeaks published earlier this week, which
revealed that people within the supposedly neutral DNC
were in fact working to help Hillary Clinton secure the
Democratic nomination against Bernie Sanders. According
to CNN:
Wikileaks released a series of voicemails
Wednesday from the Democratic National
Committee hack showing donors plying top-level
officials for favors, and one donor expressing
outrage that Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders had won
a say in the drafting of the party's platform.
In one of the 29 voicemails released, a woman who
donated $300 to Clinton called the party finance
director Andrew Wright and said she was angry the
party was acquiescing to Sanders by allowing liberal
activist and prominent Sanders surrogate Cornel
West to have one of 15 seats on the party's
platform-writing panel.
"I'm furious about what you are doing for Bernie
Sanders, he's getting way too much influence. I'm
on a fixed income, I spent over $300, donated to
Hillary, what I see is the DNC bending over
backwards for Bernie and Bernie is the worst
person in the world to even be running in the
Democratic Party, because he's not a Democrat,"
said the unidentified woman in a voicemail that was
sent to Wright's DNC email account.
In another voicemail, Bill Eacho, a longtime
Democratic donor and former U.S. ambassador,
inquired about the details of a "small dinner with
President Obama."
The voicemails are related to the batch of about
20,000 leaked emails WikiLeaks published earlier
this week, which revealed that elements within the
supposedly neutral DNC were in fact working to
help Hillary Clinton secure the Democratic
nomination. Those emails ultimately led DNC
Chairwoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz announcing
her resignation. But most of the released
voicemails amount to innocuous messages from
one person trying to reach someone else.
A few of the messages highlight the relationships
between donors looking for favors and goodies,
and the party officials trying to bring in money to
their coffers.
The owner of WikiLeaks Julian Assange told CNN in an
interview that DNC officials were taking advantage of the
possibility of Russia's involvement in the hack to distract
voters from the contents of the emails, which have
revealed shocking internal discord and collusion.
Speaking from the Ecuadorian embassy in London, where
Assange has resided for five years now, he said:
"It raises questions about the natural instincts of
Clinton that when confronted with a serious
domestic political scandal, she tries to blame the
Russians, blame the Chinese, et cetera. Because if
she does that while in government, it could lead to
problems."
