First it was Donna Brazile; now none other than the woman widely expected to be the Democratic presidential candidate in 2020 - Elizabeth Warren - has thrown Hillary Clinton under the bus.
During an interview on Thursday afternoon on CNN, Sen. Elizabeth Warren was asked if she believed the Democratic National Committee was rigged to favor the presidential nomination of Hillary Clinton.
"Very quickly senator, do you agree with the notion that it was rigged?" CNN's Jake Tapper asked.
"Yes," Warren responded.
Do you agree with the notion that the DNC was rigged in Hillary Clinton's favor?
Elizabeth Warren: Yes https://t.co/TIoytO15Ca pic.twitter.com/TjkBS0mbB8
— The Lead CNN (@TheLeadCNN) November 2, 2017
Published in Politico Magazine on Thursday, Brazile’s explosive excerpt from her upcoming book, “Hacks: The Inside Story of the Break-ins and Breakdowns That Put Donald Trump in the White House,” revealed the existence of what she described as an “unethical” agreement between Clinton and the DNC, in which the candidate’s campaign traded funding for increased control of the platform.
According to Brazile, by financing the DNC early on and keeping it financially afloat during the latter stages of the campaign, Clinton’s campaign gained substantial control of the committee throughout the election process, a claim that was repeatedly echoed on the campaign trail by Sanders himself.
"The funding arrangement with HFA and the victory fund agreement was not illegal, but it sure looked unethical,” Brazile wrote, referring to the Hillary for America presidential campaign committee.
“If the fight had been fair,” Brazile added, “one campaign would not have control of the party before the voters had decided which one they wanted to lead. This was not a criminal act, but as I saw it, it compromised the party's integrity.”
Brazile cited the agreement as proof that, as she suspected prior to joining, “Hillary Clinton’s team had rigged the nomination process.”
Appearing on CNN on Thursday, Warren, a Massachusetts Democrat, called Brazile’s revelations “a real problem.” Pressed by anchor Jake Tapper on whether she believed the Democratic primary had been “rigged” in Clinton's favor, Warren replied simply: “Yes.”
Ironically, the banker-bashing senator and leader of the progressive wing of the Democratic Party and certain 2020 presidential contender, came out in favor of Clinton over Sanders during the 2016 primaries, a move that frustrated Sanders supporters and further boosted the front-running Clinton’s bid for the nomination.
Also ironically, this is prima facie collusion and, well, rigging. Only because it doesn't involve "ze Russians", it has yet to make primetime news.
Meanwhile as of this afternoon, young, easily impressionable minds everywhere are bashing their heads into the wall, unable to pick a side between their two "progressive" paragons of virtue.
And now if only some less easily impressionable, and more informed minds could tell us if as some have asked, Hillary's rigging at the DNC pushed Biden out of the race, and more importantly - just what huge revelation is coming this way for the entire Democratic Party to suddenly throw Hillary Clinton under the bus - we would be grateful.