The wounds from one of the fiercest election campaigns in American history were still raw Thursday as the campaign teams for President-elect Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton clashed while offering their behind-the-scenes perspectives at a Harvard University forum.
At one point, Clinton campaign communications director Jennifer Palmieri told Trump's team, "I would rather lose than win the way you guys did."
"The platform that they gave to white supremacists, to white nationalists, is a very, very important moment in our history," Palmieri said.
“Do you think I ran a campaign where white supremacists had a platform?” shot back Kellyanne Conway, Trump’s campaign manager.
“You did, Kellyanne. You did,” an emotional Palmieri responded.
The exchange was one of several tense moments during the traditionally cordial post-election review hosted at Harvard's John F. Kennedy School of Government.
Conway bristled during a question-and-answer period when someone attending the forum noted the Southern Poverty Law Center had collected reports of nearly 1,000 hate-related incidents from almost every state since the election. She said Trump has called for an end to such incidents, and she labeled the center an "anti-Trump group."
Clinton campaign manager Robby Mook placed the blame for his candidate's defeat on FBI Director James Comey, who sent letters to Congress in the waning days of the campaign related to his agency's examination of Clinton's email accounts. Without those letters, Mook said, Clinton would have won.
He called the focus on Clinton's emails during the campaign one of the "most over-reported, overhyped, over-litigated stories in the history of American politics."
Mook also blamed another set of emails for Clinton's loss, namely the slow release of apparently hacked Democratic messages in the final weeks of the race.
The U.S. government has said Russia was responsible for hacking at least some of the emails released by WikiLeaks, including those from the private account of Clinton campaign chairman John Podesta.
Sparks fly as teams Clinton, Trump review bruising campaign
Now they are blaming White Supremacists for the loss of the election and Comey and the Russians!
They never blame their flawed candidate or their poor ground game in the campaign. I find it so amusing that they blame the Russians of intercepting DNC emails and never blame the content of the emails. The people got an inside look of how the Clinton's game the selection of a candidate and how the emails prove that their own campaign managers were worried over how flawed their own candidate was.
Next they will blame the position of the moon in the Milky Way! What a mess in the DNC! Get over it already!
At one point, Clinton campaign communications director Jennifer Palmieri told Trump's team, "I would rather lose than win the way you guys did."
"The platform that they gave to white supremacists, to white nationalists, is a very, very important moment in our history," Palmieri said.
“Do you think I ran a campaign where white supremacists had a platform?” shot back Kellyanne Conway, Trump’s campaign manager.
“You did, Kellyanne. You did,” an emotional Palmieri responded.
The exchange was one of several tense moments during the traditionally cordial post-election review hosted at Harvard's John F. Kennedy School of Government.
Conway bristled during a question-and-answer period when someone attending the forum noted the Southern Poverty Law Center had collected reports of nearly 1,000 hate-related incidents from almost every state since the election. She said Trump has called for an end to such incidents, and she labeled the center an "anti-Trump group."
Clinton campaign manager Robby Mook placed the blame for his candidate's defeat on FBI Director James Comey, who sent letters to Congress in the waning days of the campaign related to his agency's examination of Clinton's email accounts. Without those letters, Mook said, Clinton would have won.
He called the focus on Clinton's emails during the campaign one of the "most over-reported, overhyped, over-litigated stories in the history of American politics."
Mook also blamed another set of emails for Clinton's loss, namely the slow release of apparently hacked Democratic messages in the final weeks of the race.
The U.S. government has said Russia was responsible for hacking at least some of the emails released by WikiLeaks, including those from the private account of Clinton campaign chairman John Podesta.
Sparks fly as teams Clinton, Trump review bruising campaign
Now they are blaming White Supremacists for the loss of the election and Comey and the Russians!
They never blame their flawed candidate or their poor ground game in the campaign. I find it so amusing that they blame the Russians of intercepting DNC emails and never blame the content of the emails. The people got an inside look of how the Clinton's game the selection of a candidate and how the emails prove that their own campaign managers were worried over how flawed their own candidate was.
Next they will blame the position of the moon in the Milky Way! What a mess in the DNC! Get over it already!
