Marc Elias, the Perkins Coie lawyer who retained Fusion GPS to compile the notorious Steele dossier, may also have helped Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign assume operational control over the Democratic National Committee (DNC) well in advance of the 2016 primaries, according to a stunning new excerpt from Donna Brazile’s forthcoming book.
Brazile, a veteran Democratic strategist, led the DNC on an interim basis after Florida Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz abruptly resigned in July 2016 in connection with a mass release of internal emails through WikiLeaks, an entity U.S. intelligence officials have invariably described as “a hostile intelligence agency.” The emails indicated that Wasserman Schultz and DNC staff colluded with the Clinton campaign at the expense of Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders’s bid for the party’s presidential nomination.
An excerpt of Brazile’s new book, which appeared Thursday in Politico Magazine, reveals that the extent of collusion between the Clinton campaign and the DNC is far more substantial than previously understood. Brazile learned that the debt-stricken DNC signed a Joint Fund-Raising Agreement (JFRA) with Clinton’s political operation in August 2015, almost five months before the first ballots were cast in the Democratic primaries.
By the terms of the agreement, the Clinton campaign agreed to raise money for the DNC. In exchange, her campaign would assume significant control over Committee strategy, finances, and personnel decisions. She further says the Committee was essentially a clearinghouse for donations to the Clinton campaign during the 2016 general election — Politico reported in May 2016 that Clinton used state Democratic committees as a major fundraising vehicle, on the promise that her campaign would share these donations with state parties. The promised shares were seldom delivered by the campaign.
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