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Bernie blames Hillary for allowing Russian interference
The senator and his top political adviser also denied Mueller's assertion that Russian actors backed his campaign.

By EDWARD-ISAAC DOVERE 02/21/2018 06:45 PM EST Updated 02/21/2018 09:48 PM EST
 
evince said:
Bernie blames Hillary for allowing Russian interference
The senator and his top political adviser also denied Mueller's assertion that Russian actors backed his campaign.

By EDWARD-ISAAC DOVERE 02/21/2018 06:45 PM EST Updated 02/21/2018 09:48 PM EST
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Bernie Sanders on Wednesday blamed Hillary Clinton for not doing more to stop the Russian attack on the last presidential election. Then his 2016 campaign manager, in an interview with POLITICO, said he’s seen no evidence to support special counsel Robert Mueller's assertion in an indictment last week that the Russian operation had backed Sanders' campaign.
The remarks showed Sanders, running for a third term and currently considered a front-runner for the Democratic presidential nomination in 2020, deeply defensive in response to questions posed to him about what was laid out in the indictment. He attempted to thread a response that blasts Donald Trump for refusing to acknowledge that Russians helped his campaign — but then holds himself harmless for a nearly identical denial.

In doing so, Sanders and his former campaign manager, Jeff Weaver, presented a series of self-serving statements that were not accurate, and that track with efforts by Trump and his supporters to undermine the credibility of the Mueller probe.
“The real question to be asked is what was the Clinton campaign [doing about Russian interference]? They had more information about this than we did,” Sanders said in the interview with Vermont Public Radio.
 
Mueller’s indictment states that the 13 Russians indicted “engaged in operations primarily intended to communicate derogatory information about Hillary Clinton, to denigrate candidates such as Ted Cruz and Marco Rubio, and to support Bernie Sanders and then-candidate Donald Trump.”
Among the evidence the indictment cites is a message from the day after Sanders and Trump won their New Hampshire primaries. "Specialists were instructed to post content that focused on ‘politics in the USA’ and to ‘use any opportunity to criticize Hillary and the rest (except Sanders and Trump — we support them.),” the document read.
 
Bill Fletcher Jr., a veteran civil rights activist who said he consulted with the Sanders campaign early on but was not directly involved afterward, told Slate that while “the Sanders campaign is a tremendous movement,” it was plagued from the beginning by a “top campaign brass that was very insular” and didn’t take strategic advice from long-time progressive organizers, including some with extensive experience within the communities of color in which Sanders struggled to gain traction. Fletcher doesn’t believe Sanders got into the race to win and thinks that running a campaign focused on shifting the center of gravity within the Democratic Party led to serious strategic errors along the way. Key among them was a failure to come up with creative ways to convert millions of supporters’ revolutionary zeal into an integrated campaign operation.
 
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http://www.slate.com/articles/news_..._millions_was_anything_but_revolutionary.html



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What did $220 million buy? Ads, consultants, and a dispiritingly conventional campaign.
By Eli Clifton and Joshua Holland
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But Jason McDaniel, a political scientist at San Francisco State University, told Slate: “We know that campaign ads tend to have minimal effects on persuasion and turnout. Whatever effect they do have is short term, fading away after several days at best. In the largest states, a campaign may not have the time and resources to build up an effective voter contact operation, so an ad blitz may make the most sense. But in many states, resources might be better used for canvassing or get-out-the-vote operations.”
 
Devine is a long time political consultant who worked on Gores campaign, Kerry's and Sanders. He was not working with Manafort then. He has been offered up as a witness in Manafort's trial. Are you guys suggesting Bernie was involved in Manaforts campaign to elect Yankukovych in the Ukraine? Perjhaps you think he was Manaforts accomplice in money laundering? no, that was Trump. What are you suggesting?
 
why did he do nothing but harm hilary and USED the Russian lies against the Democraticparty while refusing to raise down ticket funds and refused to make sure the voters he attracted could actually vote?


why?
 
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https://www.thedailybeast.com/manafort-evidence-on-ukrainian-political-work-revealed?ref=home


In a court filing, President Trump’s former campaign manager Paul Manafort revealed the 50 pieces of evidence about his political work in Ukraine he wants excluded from one of his trials, BuzzFeed News reports. Among other things, The documents show that Tad Devine–a senior adviser to Bernie Sanders’ 2016 campaign–worked in Ukraine with Manafort and his associate Rick Gates. Devine's political consulting firm put out a statement later Thursday evening that he was “assisting” Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s office in prosecuting Manafort. Among the evidence is a victory speech for former Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych penned by Manafort and talking points for Yanukovych drafted by Devine. Manafort is charged with obstruction of justice and conspiracy to obstruct justice by Mueller’s office, along with conspiracy, bank and tax fraud, money laundering and failing to register as a lobbyist in D.C. and Virginia.


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evince said:
Bernie blames Hillary for allowing Russian interference
The senator and his top political adviser also denied Mueller's assertion that Russian actors backed his campaign.

By EDWARD-ISAAC DOVERE 02/21/2018 06:45 PM EST Updated 02/21/2018 09:48 PM EST
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he also tried to pretend Mueller was lying about him
 
https://www.newsweek.com/bernie-sanders-trump-2016-election-654320


Bernie Sanders supporters switched their allegiance to Donald Trump in large enough numbers last November to sway the election for the real estate billionaire, according to an analysis of voter data released Tuesday by the blog Political Wire. Since Trump’s shock victory over Hillary Clinton, much discussion has focused on the degree to which passionate Sanders supporters’ refusal to embrace Clinton led to the Republican winding up in the White House.
 
evince said:
why did he do nothing but harm hilary and USED the Russian lies against the Democraticparty while refusing to raise down ticket funds and refused to make sure the voters he attracted could actually vote?


why?
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Could have been ego or hatred of Hillary
 
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