“For Biden, as for other Democrats who had considered running in 2016, Hillary’s ability to co-opt the major institutions, political leaders, operatives, and financiers of the Democratic Party was deeply frustrating.” — 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 preliminary memo for Hillary in December 2013. As Obama’s campaign manager in 2008, Plouffe had despised Clinton; that he was now advising her was an important signal of just how completely she would co-opt the Democratic… — Jonathan Allen Copy Share
“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 evolving federal lawsuits, and judicial orders for the State Department to release Hillary’s e-mails on a rolling basis, the early months of the campaign became a private and public hell. It was only a matter of… — Jonathan Allen Copy Share
“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 her desire to hire them, but Podesta also gave verbal assurances to Smith and Parkhomenko that the RFH staff would be brought on board. “There will be no gaps in your paychecks,” Podesta said. The RFH… — Jonathan Allen Copy Share
“After the 2008 campaign, two of her aides, Kris Balderston and Adrienne Elrod, had toiled to assign loyalty scores to members of Congress, ranging from one for the most loyal to seven for those who had committed the most egregious acts of treachery. Bill Clinton had campaigned against some of the sevens in subsequent primary elections, helping to knock them… — Jonathan Allen Copy Share
“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
