in the wake of an earlier Guccifer 2.0 data release . Brazile added that " We would urge anyone attempting to access these documents to proceed with extreme caution given the potential malware risks . " Australia - based information security researcher Lee Johnstone also expressed concern about the possibility of malware on hacked and leaked documents .
While it ’s impossible to know whether systemic pro - Hillary Clinton bias at the DNC was decisive in the 2016 Democratic primary race , we now know beyond any doubt that such a bias not only existed , but was endemic and widespread . DNC officials worked to plant pro - Clinton stories , floated the idea of using Sanders ’ secular Judaism against him in the South , and routinely ran PR spin for Clinton , even as the DNC claimed over and over it was neutral in the primary . The evidence in the leaks was so clear that Debbie Wasserman Schultz has resignedpersonnel.endposition.naher role as DNC chair — after her speaking role at the Democratic National Convention this week was scrapped — while DNC co - chair Donna Brazile , who is replacing Wasserman Schultz in the top role , has apologized to the Sanders camp . Pro - Clinton pundits were quick to dismiss what was literally a conspiracy to railroad the Sanders campaign as nothing more than a yawn[. ] … what was once dismissed out of hand — that the DNC was actively working against the Sanders campaign — is now obviously true , but not a big deal .
Slattery 's hunch was right . His unknown opponent : The consulting firm run by Donald Trump 's former campaign chairman , Paul Manafort , and his deputy Rick Gates , now the campaign 's liaison to the Republican National Committee . Manafort resignedpersonnel.endposition.nalast week , shortly after disclosures by The Associated Press about his firm 's covert lobbying on behalf of Ukraine 's pro - Russian government at the time . The U.S. Foreign Agents Registration Act requires people working on behalf of foreign political leaders to disclose their efforts to the Justice Department , but neither Manafort and Gates nor U.S. lobbyists they directed did . Working on the other side , Slattery filled out the required paperwork describing contacts with Congress and State Department officials including specific phone calls and emails and the topics of their discussions .
Republican leaders , including former members of Congress , have called for the Republican National Committee to stop helping Trump and refocus its resources on helping candidates win down - ballot races for the House of Representatives and the Senate . Earlier this week , Trump reshuffled his campaign leadership while his campaign chief , Paul Manafort , faced increased scrutiny over his work with pro - Russian political groups in the Ukraine . Manafort resignedpersonnel.endposition.quitretireon Friday . The Reuters / Ipsos poll was conducted online in English in all 50 states . It surveyed samples of 1,119 and 1,118 likely voters , respectively , and has a credibility interval , a measure of accuracy , of 3 percentage points .
Marshall wrote the most explosive email , questioning Sanders ’ Jewish faith and suggesting he could be portrayed as an atheist . He has apologized for the missive . Earlier , party chairwoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz resignedpersonnel.endposition.quitretireher position and , after being booed at a pre - convention appearance last week in Philadelphia , chose not to speak from the convention stage . Longtime Democratic operative Donna Brazile is serving as the party ’s interim chair . Brazile said Tuesday that she has created a “ transition team ” to help prepare the party for its post - election mission .
To no one ’s great surprise , he neglected to tell CNN who his sources were . Nevertheless , liberal - media elites have joined with the Clinton campaign in promoting the narrative of a devious Russian cyber - attack , which Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting ’s Adam Johnson correctly points out “ is being used to outweigh the damning substance of the leak itself . ” Yes , DNC chair Debbie Wasserman Schultz resignedpersonnel.endposition.naover the scandal , but a fuller accounting is required — and so is reforming the rules governing the party ’s primary elections . The Nation calls on liberals to focus on these issues , to undertake a serious conversation about US - Russia relations , and to reject the cheap neo - McCarthyism that undermines these efforts . No one wishes to defeat Donald Trump more than The Nation .
The total debt remained huge , weighing down the reorganized company for years . In 2004 , Trump Hotels & Casino Resorts — the new name for Trump ’s casino holdings — filed for bankruptcy , and Trump was forced to relinquish his post as chief executive . The name of the company was then changed to Trump Entertainment Resorts ; it filed for bankruptcy in 2009 , four days after Trump resignedpersonnel.endposition.quitretirefrom the board . In his books and public statements , Trump holds up this bankruptcy as yet more proof of his business genius ; after all , his logic goes , he climbed out of a hole so deep few others could have done it . He even brags now about how deep that hole was .
Skip in Skip x Embed x Share CLOSE Former CNN contributor Donna Brazile has officially resignedpersonnel.endposition.quitretirefrom the network . Video provided by Newsy Newslook Donna Brazile warned Hillary Clinton ’s campaign that she would be asked about lead poisoning in Flint , Mich. , ahead of a primary debate , according to an email released by WikiLeaks Monday .
On Monday , the FBI announced that it was investigating the hack into the Democratic National Committee . At about the same time , it was also reported that FBI officials believe that the hack was committed by the Russian government , and was undertaken with the intent of aiding Donald Trump ’s presidential campaign . ( The release of the stolen data by WikiLeaks has already caused discord in the Democratic Party on the eve of its convention in Philadelphia ; over the weekend , the chair of the DNC , Debbie Wasserman Schultz , resignedpersonnel.endposition.quitretirefrom her post . ) As Franklin Foer reported in Slate , Trump has a long history of cozying up to Russia and its leader , Vladimir Putin . ( Trump recently stated that the United States may not honor its NATO obligations if a member state was attacked by Russia . )
There is , in fact , a clear precedent for this in American history . In the so - called Saturday Night Massacre , Nixon instructed Attorney General Elliot Richardson to fire special prosecutor Archibald Cox , who had been appointed by Congress to look into his illegal activities during the Watergate scandal . When Richardson resignedpersonnel.endposition.nahis post in protest at the President ’s attempt to interfere in judicial proceedings in such a blatant manner , Nixon instructed Deputy Attorney General William Ruckelshaus to do his bidding . When he , too , resigned in protest , Nixon turned to Solicitor General Robert Bork — who duly complied . By the end of the night , Cox was gone .
Before Hillary : Under President Alvaro Colom , the nation ’s first populist progressive president , the poor received access to health , education , and social security . After Hillary : Clinton authorized the U.S. embassy in Guatemala to work against the 2011 election as president of Colom ’s wife , Sandra Torres . Colom was succeeded by a right - wing corrupt president who resignedpersonnel.endposition.nafor corruption and then was arrested . 11 . Haiti
" The extreme left will not be satisfied by one person 's resignation , " the Republican party national chairman added . Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort said Clinton should follow Wasserman Schultz out the door . " Debbie Wasserman Schultz resignedpersonnel.endposition.naover her failure to secure the DNC 's email servers and the rigged system she set up with the Clinton campaign , " he said in a statement . " Now Hillary Clinton should follow Wasserman Schultz 's lead and drop out over her failure to safeguard top secret , classified information both on her unauthorized home server and while traveling abroad . " DNC hack : What you need to know
First , her “ progressive ” base roundly rejected her vice presidential nominee , U.S. Senator Tim Kaine of Virginia . Then , the chairwoman of her party resignedpersonnel.endposition.nain disgrace after getting busted colluding against her former rival , independent socialist U.S. Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont . Finally , there ’s a new documentary out there exposing Clinton as the mother of all special interest whores .
Trump has tried to downplay any potential issues involving his own business empire and the Russian government by insisting , among other things , “ I do n’t know Putin . ’’ But his two aides were unable to distance themselves . Manafort resignedpersonnel.endposition.quitretirefrom the campaign in August amid growing heat over his ties to Ukraine ’s pro - Russian government . Gates hung on a bit longer — till last month — before he also stepped down . Through Manafort ’s consulting company , David Manafort & Freeman , the pair had helped elect Viktor Yanukovich , Ukraine ’s pro - Putin president .