According to an email from Marissa Astor, hildebeest campaign manager Robby Mook’s assistant, to hildebeest campaign chair John Podesta, the campaign knew Trump was going to run, and pushed his legitimacy as a candidate. WikiLeaks’ release shows that it was seen as in hildebeest’s best interest to run against Trump in the general election. The memo, sent to the Democratic National Committee (DNC) also reveals the DNC and hildebeest campaign were strategizing on behalf of their candidate at the very beginning of the primaries....
All the hildebeest campaign had to do was push the mainstream media in the general direction of covering and attacking Trump as though he was the star of the Republican presidential primaries....
Several media outlets criticized the mainstream media obsession with Trump, but despite a few concerns that the media was propping up his legitimacy as a candidate with their constant news coverage, it continued unabatedly.
The mainstream media was more than willing to do the hildebeest campaign and DNC’s work for them by creating a narrative that the 2016 presidential elections was about hildebeest vs. Donald Trump....
The media gave hildebeest what she wanted; impunity for the corruption, lies, and deceitfulness rampant in her political record
(Observer)
The historical record now stands in judgement on which candidate was smarter and more prescient.