In The News → Re: Is Wikileaks interfering with our election or giving us information?

Speaking from the fringes, ISTR a lot of talk among Republicans about keeping Trump from getting the nomination at the convention, even if he had enough delegates to win it, which he did. Time and again, I've seen talk of hundreds of thousands of stolen documents being evidence of one thing but I don't straight away believe the one thing, unless I can see the evidence. Pro tip: I'm not going to read through hundreds of thousands of documents, so I am reserving judgment. My question, are there not parallels between DNC maneuvering to favor Clinton's nomination and Republicans, possibly including RNC, idk, maneuvering to see the popular winner, Trump, does not get nominated?

Twenty-eight. That’s how many — or more accurately, how few — delegates it would take to throw the Republican National Convention into at least temporary chaos next month. Murmurs of an organic, delegate-led move to snatch the nomination from Donald Trump are growing. And though the odds of success remain slim, the chance that the 2,400-plus delegates assembled at the convention in Cleveland will vote on a rule that frees them from their obligation to vote for a particular candidate on the first ballot — thereby allowing them to nominate an alternative to Trump — is not. That said, a lack of organization and the absence of an alternative to Trump are likely to stymie the effort. “Four weeks ago it was strictly Timothy Leary land: no basis in reality,” says one RNC delegate, referring to the psychologist and advocate of psychedelic-drug use. “Two weeks ago, some folks started thinking about it late at night, and today, I think more folks are entertaining the possibility. If it’s a hundred-yard dash, it’s moved from a few inches to maybe a few yards.” Any effort to wrest the nomination from Trump at the last minute would have to start with the RNC’s 112-member Rules Committee, which will convene in Cleveland just days before the convention kicks off on July 18. What has been mostly overlooked is that RNC rules require the support of just a quarter of Rules Committee members — 28 of them — to issue what’s known as a “minority report,” which would throw the matter of unbinding delegates to the convention floor for an up-or-down vote. That in and of itself would cause a stir on the first day of the convention.

I wasn't talking about secret collusion. What I was hearing on TV news was talk that the Republicans were spit-balling a way to replace Trump at the convention in case he would be the winner by tweaking the rules, taking a vote. It was all in the open, not a matter of a wikileak. My point is that what has been claimed the DNC did is not materially or morally different from what the Republicans were considering, albeit more openly. I did my own Google on this and here's one rendition I hope helps me make the point/ask the question:

I wasn't talking about secret collusion. What I was hearing on TV news was talk that the Republicans were spit-balling a way to replace Trump at the convention in case he would be the winner by tweaking the rules, taking a vote. It was all in the open, not a matter of a wikileak. My point is that what has been claimed the DNC did is not materially or morally different from what the Republicans were considering, albeit more openly. I did my own Google on this and here's one rendition I hope helps me make the point/ask the question:

I'm glad you did all that searching.

Well, I don't know what Bernie can do after Hillary gets the nomination. Traditionally, the loser(s) come(s) on board to give a whole-hearted endorsement to the victor in Presidential nominations. It's called party loyalty. I'd say Bernie was more than a little less than whole-hearted in his endorsement, something of a quasi-analog of Cruz.

Is Sanders a Democrat??

In his case, it seems you're gonna need a weatherman to know which way the wind blows. Evidently, he identifies variously, as Democrat when he declared candidacy for President, but historically looks more akin to a Socialist by philosophy.
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I won't use anything cited by politifact.

So you'd rather trust a blog post by a nobody over a Pulitzer Prize winning site run by reporters and editors of an independent newspaper that's won 12 Pulitzers?

So you'd rather trust a blog post by a nobody over a Pulitzer Prize winning site run by reporters and editors of an independent newspaper that's won 12 Pulitzers?

I don't know about "Politifacts" but Politifact is a project of the Tampa Bay Times (formerly the St. Petersburg Times) which is an independent newspaper.

If the findings don't fit your narrative they must be "owned". Please tell us more about Bryan White and this politifactbias.com.

You throw a lot of garbage out there without any proof...crazy speculation. The RNC does the same thing...just no leaks yet...that's pretty hilarious.

The only big divisions I see are on the democrat side. The DNC leaks are proof positive that Bernie is a fraud...of course we already knew that about Hillary. This is just another example of many dozens of crimes, scams, and lies by Hillary.