“campaign aides came to believe that there was a big and telling difference between the disclosure of DNC e-mails earlier in the summer and the reveal of the Podesta rounds. Rather than a massive, untargeted one-time release, this time there… — Jonathan Allen Copy Share Image
“Clinton’s aides didn’t know that batches of Podesta’s e-mails would be released day after day from October 7 until November 7, the last day before the election. Nor could they have imagined that the intelligence finding of Russian interference in… — 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
