After the November 2016 U.S. presidential election campaign, both 2016 and 2020 Democratic Party primaries' presidential candidate Bernie Sanders and 2016 Democratic Party presidential nominee Hillary Clinton apparently received a lot of money from corporate media conglomerate book publishing subsidiaries--for writing post-2016 election campaign books.
The Simon and Schuster book publishing division of the CBS corporate media conglomerate, for example, published a book in 2017, titled What Happened, in which Multi-Millionaire Hillary Clinton wrote the following:
"...I had known Donald Trump for years...In 2005, he invited us to his wedding to Melania in Palm Beach, Florida...I attended the ceremony, then met Bill [Clinton] for the reception at Trump's Mar-a-Lago estate. We had our photo taken with the bride and groom...
"...I had joined Bill [Clinton] and Chelsea [Clinton] as a new board member of the Clinton Foundation...My opponents spun wild tales about...how as President I would be forever in the pocket of the shadowy bankers who...paid my speaking fees...Dennis Cheng...raised hundreds of millions of dollars for my 2006 Senate re-election campaign and 2008 presidential campaign and later helped build up the Clinton Foundation endowment...
"...Bernie's presence in the race meant that I had less space and credibility to run the kind of...campaign that had helped me win Ohio and Pennsylvania in 2008...Bernie Sanders attacked me for raising money from people who worked in finance. But I reminded him that President Obama had raised more money from Wall Street than anyone in history...I am grateful to everyone who gave money to our campaign...The majority of donors were women...
"...Bernie Sanders, who loved to talk about how `true progressives' never bow to political realities or powerful interests, had long...supported the NRA's key priorities, including voting against the Brady Bill five times in the 1990s. In 2005, he voted for that special immunity law that protects gun makers and sellers from being sued when their weapons are used in deadly attacks...After months of pressure from activists and victims' families, Bernie finally said he would reconsider his vote...
"...As time went on, Bernie routinely portrayed me as a corrupt corporatist who couldn't be trusted. His clear implication was that because I accepted campaign donations from people on Wall Street--just as President Obama had done--I was `bought and paid for.'
"...Bernie couldn't make an argument against me...on policy, so he had to resort to innuendo and impugning my character. Some of his supporters, the so-called Bernie Bros, took to harassing my supporters on line. It got ugly and more than a little sexist...His attacks caused lasting damage, making it harder to unify progressives in the general election and paving the way for Trump's `Crooked Hillary' campaign...Throughout the primaries, every time I wanted to hit back against Bernie's attacks, I was told to restrain myself...I felt like I was in a straitjacket...
"...The Russians made a particular effort to target voters who...supported Bernie Sanders.., including by planting...news on pro-Sanders message boards and Facebook groups and amplifying attacks by so-called Bernie Bros. Russian trolls posted stories about how I was a murderer...I don't know why anyone would believe such things, even if you read it on Facebook..."
But in the book that the Thomas Dunne-St.Martin's Press-Macmillan Corporate book publishing subsidiary of the Germany-based Holtzbrinck media conglomerate (which was apparently founded by a German Nazi Party member and publisher of books for the German imperialist army during World War II, named George von Holtzbrinck) published in November 2018, titled Where We Go From Here, Millionaire Bernie Sanders wrote the following:
"On the night of June 14 [2016], with the primary process over, Hillary Clinton and her key advisers John Podesta and Robby Moot sat down in a Washington, D.C. hotel with my campaign manager, Jeff Weaver, my wife, Jane, and me. The purpose of the meeting was...to determine how we could most effectively work together to defeat Trump.
"...Clinton, legitimately enough, had...immediate interests. She wanted to know what kind of ROLE I WAS PREPARED TO PLAY...When and should I endorse her? What states would be best for me to focus on? How could we best WORK TOGETHER at the [2016] convention in Philadelphia?
"...After reaching a general agreement at the meeting as to the best path forward, we trusted our staffs to work out the particulars...I...appreciated the willingness of the Clinton team and the DNC to WORK WITH US...
"On July 26, 2016, in a prime-time speech at the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia, I ENDORSED HILLARY CLINTON and URGED MY SUPPORTERS AND THE AMERICAN PEOPLE TO ELECT HER AS PRESIDENT.
"A few weeks earlier, appearing with Secretary Clinton...in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, I said, `Secretary Clinton has won the Democratic nominating process...I intend to DO EVERYTHING I CAN TO MAKE CERTAIN SHE WILL BE THE NEXT PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES'...
"...We had to defeat Trump and ELECT HILLARY CLINTON. This to me was a no-brainer...I was, perhaps, more aware than any one of Secretary Clinton's political deficiencies...But I was also aware that, on her worst day, she would be a better president than Trump...Unlike many other presidential candidates who had lost their elections, I did not intend to fade away into the sunset.
"In terms of supporting Clinton, not all the Sanders delegates agreed with me...I was booed by some for URGING THEM TO VOTE FOR HER. My response was to speak to as many state delegations as possible...As Sam Frizell of Time magazine reported: `...The Vermont senator visited with state delegations in Philadelphia TO CORRAL THEM INTO SUPPORTING HILLARY CLINTON...Sanders' effort was part of A FULL-COURT PRESS'...I visited delegations from New York, California, Kansas, Wisconsin, and Alaska, among others...I went to point out that OUR `FIRST TASK' WAS TO ELECT CLINTON...The chair of the Vermont delegation allowed me to NOMINATE HILLARY CLINTON BY ACCLIMATION...
"Here is the speech that I gave at the Democratic National Convention on July 26, 2016, endorsing Hillary Clinton for president:
"...`Any objective observer will conclude that--based on her ideas and her leadership--Hillary Clinton MUST BECOME THE NEXT PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES...I have known Hillary Clinton for 25 years. I remember her as A GREAT FIRST LADY...I served with her in the United States Senate and know her as A FIERCE ADVOCATE FOR THE RIGHTS OF CHILDREN.
"`HILLARY CLINTON WILL MAKE AN OUTSTANDING PRESIDENT AND I AM PROUD TO STAND WITH HER HERE TONIGHT.'...
"In terms of HELPING HILLARY CLINTON...and bringing unity to THE PARTY for the 2016 election, I WAS ALL IN. I didn't need much encouragement to tell Clinton THAT I INTENDED TO DO EVERYTHING I COULD TO HELP HER BECOME THE NEXT PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES...
"Throughout September, October, and November 2016, I held 39 RALLIES IN 13 STATES ON BEHALF OF HILLARY CLINTON'S CAMPAIGN. In September, I was in Lebanon, New Hampshire, Kent, Ohio; and Akron, Ohio. In October, I was in Madison and Green Bay, Wisconsin; 4 cities in Michigan: Dearborn, Ann Arbor, Lansing, and Grand Rapids;...Scranton and Philadelphia, Pennsylvania...In November, I was in...Kalamazoo and Traverre City, Michigan; Milwaukee, Wisconsin; Youngstown and Cincinnati, Ohio...I...generated a whole lot of positive media for Clinton...
"When asked...whether or not I was `selling out' by SUPPORTING CLINTON, I stated,`...It is absolutely imperative we do everything we can to defeat Donald Trump'...Election night I was tired...During the last week alone, I had done 17 EVENTS FOR CLINTON IN 11 STATES...My political gut gave Clinton a 3-1 chance of winning. In other words, I THOUGHT SHE WAS GOING TO WIN...Following the election, Chuck Schumer, Democratic Senate leader asked me TO BE PART OF THE 10-MEMBER SENATE DEMOCRATIC LEADERSHIP TEAM..."
Yet most politically independent antiwar and anti-imperialist left socialist Movement grassroots activists in the United States--unlike Democratic Party Loyalist and Millionaire Sanders--did not believe in 2016 that their "`first task' was to elect Clinton;" and that Hawk Democratic Party Leader and Multi-Millionaire Hillary Clinton (who voted in support of the U.S. war machine's attacks on Afghanistan and Iraq as a U.S. Senator, supported Democratic President Obama's policy of waging drone warfare in Pakistan, attacking Libya with cruise missiles and initiating a covert war for regime change in Syria as U.S. Secretary of State and, as a 2016 U.S. presidential nominee, proposed using the U.S. war machine to create a "no-fly zone" in Syria in support of regime change in Syria) "must become the next president of the United States."
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