“Podesta had just left the Peninsula for the Javits Center. He went over because the campaign’s contract expired at 2:30 a.m., which was nearing, and there was still no decision from Hillary on what she wanted to do, other than… — Jonathan Allen Copy Share Image
“within twenty-four hours of her concession speech. Mook and Podesta assembled her communications team at the Brooklyn headquarters to engineer the case that the election wasn’t entirely on the up-and-up. For a couple of hours, with Shake Shack containers littering… — Jonathan Allen Copy Share Image
“All of the jockeying might have been all right, but for a root problem that confounded everyone on the campaign and outside it. Hillary… — Jonathan Allen Copy Share Image
“After years of watching adversaries comb through her public records for any hint of a scandal, and after accessing her own aides’ e-mails, Hillary… — Jonathan Allen Copy Share Image
“Mook was already operating inside a framework first developed for Hillary by David Plouffe, President Barack Obama’s longtime strategist, who had put together a… — Jonathan Allen Copy Share Image
“In the end, though, this was a winnable race for Hillary. Her own missteps—from setting up a controversial private e-mail server and giving speeches… — Jonathan Allen Copy Share Image
“As she had at State, Abedin concerned herself with elements of the operation for which she had no credentials. But” — Jonathan Allen Copy Share Image
“But more important, the scapegoating tone and tenor revealed that the Clintons were either living on another planet or at least having emotional and… — Jonathan Allen Copy Share Image
“Between the Benghazi Committee, which would take depositions from Cheryl Mills, Huma Abedin, and Jake Sullivan among other Hillary aides, the drip-drip nature of… — Jonathan Allen Copy Share Image
“The group’s lists had value, and lawyers for Ready for Hillary and the Clinton campaign would spend weeks planning how they could legally transfer… — Jonathan Allen Copy Share Image
“The candidate would blame her staff for failing to contain the damage, and, privately, they would fault her for failing to take the steps… — Jonathan Allen Copy Share Image
“Ready for Hillary aides were ecstatic about the new jobs they were going to get on the Clinton campaign. Not only had Hillary declared… — Jonathan Allen Copy Share Image
“After the 2008 campaign, two of her aides, Kris Balderston and Adrienne Elrod, had toiled to assign loyalty scores to members of Congress, ranging… — Jonathan Allen Copy Share Image
“It clearly wasn’t the best choice. I should’ve used two emails—one personal, one for work,” she said.” — Jonathan Allen Copy Share Image
