stefania maurizi1. OTD 8 years ago, #WikiLeaks revealed the internal emails of the US Democrats' governing body: #DNC. They allowed revealing how the #DNC rather than remaing neutral in the primaries,as it was supposed to be,boycotted the left-wing candidate #Sanders and favored #HillaryClinton
2. The party's establishment favoured a candidate with considerable ties to #WallStreet and support from the #MilitaryIndustrialComplex and #SiliconValley,#HillaryClinton, rather than a candidate who spoke to the more vulnerable segments of the population, #Sanders
3. the #DNCEmails led to the resignation of the #DNC chairwoman, #DebbieWassermanSchultz.
3 months after the #DNCEmails,#WikiLeaks revealed the emails of John #Podesta,who headed the #HillaryClinton's campaign
3 months after the #DNCEmails,#WikiLeaks revealed the emails of John #Podesta,who headed the #HillaryClinton's campaign
4. I was working for the major Italian daily la Repubblica (from which I resigned in 2020), I wanted to work on the #PodestaEmails. And I did. But I was alone: it was absurd, because U.S. elections have always had an impact on every country in the world
5. the #PodestaEmails depicted an elitist #DemParty establishment, light years away from the American middle-class that had been brought to its knees by the economic crisis.
This by #ThomasFrank is one of the best analysis on them
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6. the #PodestaEmails allowed revealing the speeches given by #HillaryClinton to #financialGiants,behind closed doors
The #NYTimes had asked Clinton to make public those "richly paid speeches to big banks,which many middle-class Americans still blame for their economic pain"
The #NYTimes had asked Clinton to make public those "richly paid speeches to big banks,which many middle-class Americans still blame for their economic pain"
7. When we finally read the Hillary Clinton's speeches to the #financialGiants,contained in the #PodestaEmails revealed by #WikiLeaks, we understood why Clinton had not made them public
8. Clinton's speeches to the #financialGiants behind closed doors contained statements like:
"I'm kind of far removed" from the struggles of the middle class, "because [of] the life I've lived and the economic, you know, fortunes that my husband and I now enjoy"
"I'm kind of far removed" from the struggles of the middle class, "because [of] the life I've lived and the economic, you know, fortunes that my husband and I now enjoy"
9. The #PodestaEmails revealed how the US Democrats admired #PopeFrancis, a charismatic leader whose moral megaphone reaches 1.3 billion people in the world
2¢@smaurizi Clinton can be quite candid publicly as well. I believe it stems from the same arrogance that she shares with people like Biden.