They couldn’t have made it any harder
by digby
I don’t want to get into the business of defending the Clinton campaign or trying to argue that they didn’t make some fatal mistakes. Obviously they did. But try to imagine what it must have been like to battle the press’s obsession with the “emails,” the FBI’s apparent mission to sully your reputation, an unpredictable, malevolent, circus clown for an opponent and a Russian campaign to destroy your candidacy.
And the last was a startling fact they knew but nobody else believed:
Let’s just say they didn’t exactly make it easy for her to win:
1/ Given the stunning information we now know from Comey’s testimony, we really need to take a moment to reflect back on July 24, 2016.— Matt McDermott (@mattmfm) March 21, 2017
2/ It was the day before the Dem Convention, after Wikileaks had dropped a load of hacked emails causing chaos as the convention kicked off.— Matt McDermott (@mattmfm) March 21, 2017
3/ Many pundits remarked on the awful timing of the leak for Clinton right before the convention, but generally assumed it was coincidental.— Matt McDermott (@mattmfm) March 21, 2017
5/ Here’s a video of that exchange, in which @RobbyMook was met with a mix of incredulity and doubt for even suggesting something so absurd. pic.twitter.com/0IyusximrO— Matt McDermott (@mattmfm) March 21, 2017
6/ The Trump campaign responded that the assertion was a “joke.” pic.twitter.com/2dCOl9TtPD— Matt McDermott (@mattmfm) March 21, 2017
7/ Don Jr. on same show said the suggestion Russians were intentionally trying to help Trumo was “disgusting” and “so phony” — a “big lie.” pic.twitter.com/ID9DevuTqC— Matt McDermott (@mattmfm) March 21, 2017
8/ Major media organizations (like the NYT, here, a week before the election!) also cast doubt, or straight up refuted the assertion. pic.twitter.com/mdkAZJQOcy— Matt McDermott (@mattmfm) March 21, 2017
9/ Well yesterday, the FBI emphatically confirmed @RobbyMook‘s assessment: the Russian were intentionally leaking emails to help Trump.— Matt McDermott (@mattmfm) March 21, 2017
10/ The Clinton campaign was right. The Trump campaign was wrong. Major media outlets were wrong. The Russians were trying to help Trump.— Matt McDermott (@mattmfm) March 21, 2017
It must have been frustrating as hell …
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