Donna Brazile Keeps Insisting The Democratic Primary Wasn’t Rigged After She Wrote It Was Rigged

Donna Brazile has repeatedly walked back or outright refuted her own written claim that the Democratic primary was rigged in favor of Hillary Clinton as she promotes Hacks: The Inside Story of the Break-ins and Breakdowns that Put Donald Trump in the White House.

The former interim Democratic National Committee chair wrote she had found proof last year of a “rigged” primary in favor of Hillary Clinton over Sen. Bernie Sanders (I., Vt.), but she now denies that was the case, or even that she wrote the word “rigged” at all (she did).

Brazile became interim chair of the DNC last summer after Debbie Wasserman Schultz was ousted, and she wrote she was handed an organization riddled with debt and dysfunction.

Politico printed an excerpt of the book last week in which Brazile wrote she had found “solid proof” of her “suspicions” that “Hillary Clinton’s team had rigged the nomination process.”

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