Donna Brazile has no regrets over contact with Clinton team

Donna Brazile, the acting chair of the DNC, said she did not regret her contact with the Clinton team when she was working as a CNN correspondent.

TheGrio Staff

Nov 7, 2016

On Monday, Donna Brazile, the acting chair of the Democratic National Committee, said that she did not regret her contact with the Clinton team when she was working as a correspondent for CNN.

“My conscience — as an activist, a strategist — is clear. When I said what I said, I said it and I’m not going back on it,” Brazile told Joe Madison during a SiriusXM radio program. “If I had to do it all over again, I would know a hell of a lot more about cybersecurity. I would know a hell of a lot more about foreign intervention in our electoral process.”

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“We’re all political players. I’m a player. I play with everybody. I play with my candidates. I play with journalists like yourself and others in the media because it’s a back-and-forth situation,” she said. “We apologize if we offended anybody.”

She also sharply criticized Republicans for “weaponizing” WikiLeaks, especially given its ties to Russia.

“The Democratic Party was a victim of a cyber-crime,” she said. “It’s sad. It’s sickening to see so many people, especially those on my right, utilize these emails to try to smear people.”