Donna Brazile, a top official with the Democratic National Committee who also was a CNN analyst, allegedly notified Hillary Clinton's presidential campaign in March about a question to be asked at a "town hall" debate during the primaries, according to documents posted by WikiLeaks.
It marks the second purported e-mail indicating Brazile had tipped off the Clinton campaign to questions that were supposed to be kept secret during the Democratic primaries, when the DNC was ostensibly neutral. The alleged e-mail posted today said Clinton would be questioned by a woman from Flint, Michigan, about the town's tainted water. An alleged memo released earlier told the campaign Clinton would be asked about the death penalty at another event that month.
Brazile, who didn't respond to a request for comment, said after WikiLeaks posted the earlier e-mail that she never had access to debate questions and wouldn't have shared them if she did. She suggested the WikiLeaks documents may have been "misinformation". The Clinton campaign has said the Russian Government hacked the e-mails of campaign chairman John Podesta and may have altered or concocted some of the thousands it has been posting.
A day before the March 6 debate sponsored by CNN in Flint, Brazile allegedly wrote to Podesta and Jennifer Palmieri, the Clinton campaign's communications director, that a woman from the town "has lead poison and she will ask what, if anything, will Hillary do as president to help the ppl of Flint".
During the town hall, Lee-Anne Walters, who had a son who had stopped growing and a daughter who lost her hair, asked Clinton and Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders, her primary rival, whether they would "make a personal promise" to make the removal of lead a requirement for public waters in their first 100 days in office, according to transcripts of the debate provided by CNN. Both did.