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"Donna Brazile: ‘I was scared’
Sweeps for Russian bugs, suspicious packages, death threats, Donald Trump — it's been a rough eight months for the former DNC chair.
By Edward-Isaac Dovere
Donna Brazile has been
through a lot — but nothing like the past eight months.
More than taking over a
Democratic National Committee in crisis, more than seeing the party
collapse from a predicted victory to crushing defeat all in one
night, more than trying to keep the wings of the party from choking
each other to death, there was taking care of a young staff that
spent the past year getting death threats, harassing emails and
suspicious packages that they regularly called the police to check
out.
Brazile also needed to
take care of herself. She went through fear, then anger, then
bitterness, then resistance — and then again relived it Saturday
night, speaking to me for the “Off Message” podcast in her first
extensive interview about the experiences.
The anguish started early
into her time as interim chair, when she was called in by the FBI to
be told what it knew of the extent of the hacking and Russia’s
role.
“All I can tell you is
that when I left that room after that briefing,” Brazile said, “I
went back to the DNC, closed the office and stared at the ceilings.
There was nothing else I could do.”
“I was scared,” she
added later. “I was scared that first day and night. I went home
that night, I couldn't talk to anybody because I had a — I couldn't
even tell the staff what was happening to them.” ... "
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"Interim Democratic National Committee Chair Donna Brazile made impassioned remarks at the party’s winter meeting in Atlanta the day before a new chair was set to be elected. Ms. Brazile took over the committee July 24, 2016"
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