Clinton rips DNC: I inherited nothing

Hillary Clinton blasted the Democratic National Committee on Wednesday, saying that she “inherited nothing” from the party after winning its presidential nomination last year.

“So I’m now the nominee of the Democratic Party. I inherit nothing from the Democratic Party,” she said during a question and answer session at Code Conference in Rancho Palos Verdes, Calif.

“I mean, it was bankrupt. It was on the verge of insolvency. Its data was mediocre to poor, nonexistent, wrong,” she recalled. “I had to inject money into it.”

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By contrast, she said, then-GOP candidate Donald Trump inherited a well-funded and extensively tested data operation that laid the foundation for his ultimately successful campaign to effectively weaponize data and internet content against Clinton.

“So Trump becomes the nominee and he is basically handed this tried and true, effective foundation,” Clinton said. 

Clinton also suggested that Russian efforts to meddle in the 2016 election in favor of Trump were “guided by Americans” and other political operatives and strategists.

“The Russians in my opinion, and based on the intel and counterintel people I’ve talked to, could not have known how best to weaponize that information unless they had been guided,” she said. “Guided by Americans and guided by people who had polling and data information.”

The U.S. intelligence community concluded in a report made public in January that the Kremlin had sought to influence the election in Trump’s favor by running a massive hacking and influence campaign.