Jill Stein
BLASTED the DNC Over Leaked Emails
By Tom Cahill
July 25,
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Party presumptive nominee Jill Stein says WikiLeaks’
explosive new release of Democratic National
Committee emails prove the Democratic Party
intentionally sabotaged Bernie Sanders’ campaign.
Stein is urging Sanders to withdraw his endorsement
of Hillary Clinton and explore collaboration with
the Green Party.
“This
latest revelation from WikiLeaks underscores how
much the media is in bed with the DNC to circle the
wagons around Hillary,” Stein told US Uncut in a
phone interview. “The corruption and underhanded
tactics and deception and conspiratorial efforts to
silence Bernie and delegitimize him — I mean,
welcome to the Green Party. This is what we’ve been
up against forever.”
Stein said
the leaks prove that the DNC never intended to let
Sanders win the nomination outright, and further
proves the Vermont senator was “betrayed” by the
party. She’s calling on him to publicly retract his
endorsement of the former Secretary of State at the
Democratic National Convention next week and join
her at the top of the Green Party ticket.
“The leaked
DNC emails are the smoking gun that the Democratic
establishment was rigging the game against Bernie
the whole time,” Stein said in a
press release issued by her campaign. “Instead
of running the process impartially and letting the
voters decide, top Democratic officials were doing
all they could to ensure a Clinton victory,
including collusion with journalists to present a
pro-Clinton, anti-Sanders narrative.”
Should
Sanders go to the DNC next week and reaffirm his
endorsement of Hillary Clinton in the general
election, Stein said it would be a betrayal of his
principles and of his supporters’ wishes for a
political revolution.
“You want
to affirm a corrupt party that just dragged you
across the coals? You expect your supporters, who
have a vision and who voted for integrity, to follow
you into this shithole?” Stein told US Uncut. “Is
there no respect here for his campaign and for
himself? Are they just going to pretend it didn’t
happen?”
Regardless
of whether or not Sen. Sanders continues to remain
with the Democratic Party, Stein believes his
millions of supporters will be so disgusted with the
leaks that they will exit the Democratic Party en
masse and join her campaign.
“I think it
would be very hard for a self-respecting Sanders
supporter, in light of these revelations, to take
the beating and humiliate themselves and disrespect
themselves, to go into the campaign and support the
predator who destroyed them,” Stein said.
In response
to the question of being perceived as a “spoiler,”
and whether or not it’s wise to try and run against
both Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump and risk a
Trump presidency, Stein said Donald Trump’s defeat
won’t come at the hands of Hillary Clinton and the
Democrats, saying the leaks show the DNC has no
trust left with the public.
“How is
Hillary Clinton going to hold a candle to Donald
Trump?” Stein said. “Not only does this destroy the
unification efforts within the Democrats, but this
destroys Hillary’s ability to portray herself as
trustworthy to the American public. They already
don’t trust her.”
“I don’t
think Hillary Clinton is now capable of stopping
Donald Trump,” Stein continued. “You have to begin
to get out [of the two-party system], and trust the
momentum and righteousness of what you’re going
to do and what you must do, especially when you’re
looking at oblivion.”
She was
quick to add that a Hillary Clinton presidency would
also be disastrous for America and the rest of the
world.
“It’s not
just Donald Trump on one hand, it’s climate
catastrophe on the other, and nuclear weapons, and
expanding war,” Stein said. “What we need to really
look at here is the ticking clock on climate change,
which wipes us all out. All of us forever, that’s
it… We must do this, we have to get out of this pit
that we’re in and understand if we’ve come that far,
we are going to keep going. We have a moral
imperative here, not just for us in this moment, but
for humanity, forever.”
Stein will
be in Philadelphia to protest at the DNC with tens
of thousands of Sanders supporters who have been
organizing the protests for months. US Uncut will
provide daily coverage of the convention throughout
next week.
Tom
Cahill is a writer for US Uncut based in the Pacific
Northwest. He specializes in coverage of political,
economic, and environmental news. You can contact
him via email at
tom.v.cahill@gmail.com.
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