US ELECTION RIGGED?: Hillary Clinton Campaign Is Meeting With Computer Gurus Who Have Proof of Rigged Polls

In the two weeks since Hillary Clinton’s shocking and widely disputed “loss” to Donald Trump in the 2016 presidential election, she’s been largely out of the public eye. Some of her supporters have wondered aloud if she’s planning to fight what increasingly looks like a rigged election result, or if she’s given up hope of overturning anyway.






But as it turns out, her lack of noise has not meant a lack of action. In fact the Hillary campaign has been quietly meeting with computer scientists from the University of Michigan who believe they’ve uncovered mathematical evidence that the voting tallies were indeed rigged against her.

Hillary Clinton’s campaign chair John Podesta met with “University of Michigan Center for Computer Security and Society” Director J. Alex Halderman on Thursday, along with general counsel Marc Elias and prominent voting rights attorney John Bonifaz. No one involved publicized the meeting at the time, and for unknown reasons, news of the meeting is just now leaking out via The Week.


What’s not yet leaked out is what, if anything, Hillary Clinton and her team may be privately planning to do about the matter. Over the past week a number of inconsistencies and irregularities and seeming mathematical impossibilities have been uncovered in the various swing states where she was supposed to win, but Donald Trump stunningly won instead. Just today, one Wisconsin county acknowledged that it erred severely in Trump’s favor, revising its number and making his already tiny margin of victory there even more in doubt.


There was also impossible math in Florida, along with half a dozen other things that simply didn’t add up. This meeting with computers scientists now raises the question of whether Hillary Clinton and her team have been publicly silent because they haven’t seen a path forward, or because they simply haven’t wanted to tip off whatever they’re working on behind the scenes.

How Podesta Email Was hacked Leading To Hillary Clinton Getting Hacked Has Been Revealed By Wikileaks

WikiLeaks has released what may be the key email that led to one of the biggest cybersecurity breaches in presidential campaign history -- allowing hackers to gain access to Clinton Campaign Chairman John Podesta’s Gmail account.





A new email thread released Friday shows Podesta got a March 19 email from “Google” notifying him someone had his "password" and tried to sign in from Ukraine.

The IT team told Podesta the message was legit and he should change his password. But it appears the email actually was a phishing ploy – and likely gave the world access to the contents of his account.

In the new batch of emails leaked Friday, Podesta’s assistant Sara Latham forwarded the "Google" email to Charles Delavan, a Clinton campaign IT official, to see if it was real.

Delavan told her that it was a “legitimate email.”

“John needs to change his password immediately, and ensure that two-factor authentication is turned on his account … It is absolutely imperative that this is done ASAP,” he wrote, sharing a Google link where he could change his password.
Latham then sent Podesta and another campaign official an email saying the message was "REAL."

The email chain does not detail what happened next. But a previous report from Motherboard said on that same day, Podesta opened a link that gave hackers access to his email. The hackers reportedly used a URL shortened using the Bitly service, which reportedly contained Podesta's encoded Gmail address and gave the hackers access.

The March 19 email published by WikiLeaks indeed includes a shortened Bitly link at the bottom where Podesta was directed to change his password.

Cybersecurity firm SecureWorks said the alleged hacking method is the same used by Fancy Bear, a Russian hacker group -- and the link was created specifically to target Podesta's account.

“We can confirm that in the leaked email, the Bitly link listed is one of the links we saw created by the Fancy Bear group to target Podesta,” a spokeswoman for the group said. “It was one of four links created to target Mr. Podesta’s Gmail account.”


The Obama administration recently blamed senior Russian officials for orchestrating a string of hackings at the Democratic National Committee and the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee. The Obama administration, however, has not publicly accused Russia of the Podesta hack.

Motherboard wrote: “None of this new data constitutes a smoking gun that can clearly frame Russia as the culprit behind the almost unprecedented hacking campaign that has hit the DNC and several other targets somewhat connected to the U.S. presidential campaign.”

Friday’s WikiLeaks email release – part 21 of its Podesta series – brings the total emails released so far to 35,594.

Trump On The Move To Debate Venue Without Informing His Press Pool

Donald Trump has been spirited away to St. Louis for his highly anticipated town hall debate against Hillary Clinton—but he left his traveling press pool back in New York City. Naturally, the reporters responsible for covering him only discovered their petulant orange charge was gone after campaign manager Kellyanne Conway made a tweet:

But look how much fun they had!

In fact, Trump seems to have shaken loose from his pesky press corps altogether. FREEDOM!

This is not the first time Trump has ditched the press—he also memorably abandoned them when he made the snap decision to travel to Mexico in August. Last month, he mocked journalists for being late to a New Hampshire rally after his campaign failed to properly arrange the pool’s travel.

“I have really good news for you,” he told the crowd assembled for the event. “I just heard the press is stuck on their airplane. They can’t get here. I love it. So they’re trying to get here now. They’re going to be about 30 minutes late. They called us and said could you wait? I said absolutely not. Let’s get going, New Hampshire.”

What a guy.

Madonna Imitates Katy Perry To Post Naked Pics in Support Of Hillary Clinton

Madonna has never been shy about taking her clothes off, and now she’s doing it in support of Hillary Clinton.

Hot on the heels of Katy Perry’s naked parody to get fans to vote in the upcoming election, Madonna posted a nude selfie to her Instagram account.

In the snap put up on Wednesday, September 28, the pop legend leaned over the camera and wore nothing but a grill and several gold necklaces.

“Im voting naked with Katy Perry!!” the 58-year-old wrote. “Vote for Hillary. She's the Best we got!🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸. Nude Voting series # 1.”

Madonna maintained her modesty by cropping the photo where things got risqué.

She was clearly in a political mood as she also posted a photo of herself performing at the 2015 Brit Awards and photoshopped Hillary into the shot.

“Living For Hillary,” she captioned the picture. “Yes I vote for intelligence. I vote for equal rights for women and all minorities. 🙏🏻😂🇺🇸🎈🙌🏻 Women Run the World now they have to get out and start supporting one another. No more misogynist feminists! No more mysogony. Get out and Vote 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸.”

The day before Perry, 31, starred in a skit for Funny or Die and Rock the Vote to remind people to make their voices heard in the upcoming presidential election this November.

Katy Perry takes her clothes off for skit to encourage people to vote Funny or Die

In the clip she attempted to cast her vote in the buff before she’s arrested and thrown into the back of a police car in the nude.

Both Perry and Madonna are vocal supporters of the 68-year-old Democratic nominee.

Democrats Are Bothers By Hillary Clinton’s secrecy

It’s not her health that’s worrying Democrats. It’s her secrecy.

Hillary Clinton went dark on Monday, a day after collapsing on a New York City street and only belatedly disclosing a pneumonia diagnosis that she learned of two days earlier. She was finally heeding her doctor’s prescription of rest, she said. And while her surrogates hit the airwaves promising the imminent release of more information about Clinton’s medical records to quell any uncertainty that she is not, overall, healthy, Democrats supporting Clinton’s campaign worried, once again, about a deeper problem with the candidate herself.

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"I just didn’t think it was going to be that big a deal,” the Democratic nominee explained to CNN’s Anderson Cooper by phone on Monday from her home in Chappaqua of her decision to keep her pneumonia private. She noted that her former Senate colleague Chuck Schumer had also chosen to keep his current bout of pneumonia private.

Her explanation was reminiscent of the one she has used to dismiss questions about her unsanctioned private email server — saying it was merely for convenience, and noting that other people did it, too.

And it’s a reflection of her stubborn expectation of privacy amid her pursuit of the most public office in the world that has Clinton’s allies and adversaries alike now anxious about how she will deal with the continuing fallout of the health episode.

“People get ill every now and then, especially when you are under the stress they are under,” said a former Clinton aide, of the presidential candidates. “The bigger issue is whether she has been way too secretive about her medical issues — it adds to the whole backdrop that she’s too secretive in general."

On Sunday evening, Clinton’s campaign released a note from her doctor explaining that she had been diagnosed with pneumonia two days earlier. Prior to that, the campaign released a two-page medical note last year during the Democratic primary, declaring her in "excellent" health. Donald Trump has revealed even less — just three paragraphs from a doctor who has admitted he jotted the note down in five minutes — but on Monday, seeing an opening to take the high road, promised more detailed information about his physical state.

Former Clinton aides said that while Clinton can be frustratingly stubborn about privacy — often to her own detriment — the “extra responsibility gene” she often references make them highly skeptical that she would have entered the race if she was truly in frail health. And the campaign said on Monday that she had no other undisclosed conditions.

The Clinton campaign on Monday tried to hint that it also understood the need for more transparency. Clinton spokesman Brian Fallon admitted to MSNBC’s Andrea Mitchell that the campaign could have “handled better” the flow of information about Clinton’s whereabouts and health status on Sunday, when reporters were kept in the dark for hours after her abrupt departure from the 9/11 Memorial in New York.

Fallon also said the campaign plans to release more medical information about the candidate as early as this week. But he demurred when asked if the campaign would make Clinton’s doctor available for interviews. “I think the first step is going to be to release this additional information, and then we'll take it from there,” he said.

And campaign manager Robby Mook didn’t crush the sense of a campaign withholding information about Clinton’s health either when he told CNN: “I’m not going to get into details about who knew her medical information.” Internally, many aides said they did not know Clinton had pneumonia until Sunday night.

Democrats on Monday criticized the candidate for creating yet another proof point for the narrative that Clinton has something to hide. “The Clintons always take the hard road,” another longtime ally sighed.

And Democratic observers of the race seemed to want to exert some pressure on the campaign to break Clinton of her information-hoarding habit so questions of her health and trustworthiness could begin to be settled before the first presidential debate less than two weeks from now.

“We will have a new era of transparency for the Clinton campaign,” predicted Democratic strategist Bob Shrum, a former top strategist for candidates like Al Gore and John Kerry. “The need for transparency is clear. They’re going to put out extensive medical records — that will help.”

Before Clinton's health problem on Sunday, the campaign had been starting to open up after a summer of stonewalling the press. Clinton campaign communications director Jennifer Palmieri had convinced the reluctant candidate that regular meetings with the press corps that covers her were necessary for the final stretch of the general election.

On Monday, the campaign appeared to be enacting a two-pronged strategy: promising more disclosure while challenging the press and the public to hold both candidates up to the same standard.

“We look forward to Donald Trump releasing his medical information,” Mook told CNN. “Let’s just make sure everybody is meeting the same bar here.”

But Clinton allies expressed frustration that the campaign’s best defense was begging for an even playing field instead of realizing she will never get one. “People are inured to the fact that he lies all the time and doesn’t tell you very much,” said the longtime Clinton ally. “She’s held to a different standard. You can whine about it, but she is. It’s unfair, so is politics.”

Indeed, longtime allies were skeptical that the dawn of a new age of information sharing would ever change hardened perceptions about Clinton or her husband — perceptions that in no small part are the result of actions they have taken over decades in public life.

“No matter what she releases, there will be continued questions of, has she given us the full monty, and should she?” the ally added. “Is there an obligation for her to basically get undressed in public? If there is, there will always be the nagging questions of, did she? That’s tough.”

Hillary Clinton Issues an Apology for Calling Donald Trump Supporters as ‘Deplorables’

Hillary Clinton issued an apology on Saturday, September 10, for blasting half of Donald Trump's supporters as “deplorables” during a rally on Friday, saying that she “was wrong” to generalize

The Democratic presidential nominee said at a fundraiser on Friday, September 9, that "you can put half of Trump supporters into what I call the basket of deplorables."

 “Last night I was ‘grossly generalist,’ and that’s never a good idea,” Clinton said in a statementon Saturday. “I regret saying ‘half’ — that was wrong. But let’s be clear, what’s really ‘deplorable’ is that Donald Trump hired a major advocate for the so-called ‘alt-right’ movement to run his campaign and that David Duke and other white supremacists see him as a champion of their values.”

Clinton added that “it’s deplorable that Trump has built his campaign largely on prejudice and paranoia and given a national platform to hateful views and voices, including by retweeting fringe bigots with a few dozen followers and spreading their message to 11 million people.”

On Friday, Clinton, 68, was speaking at an LGBT gala fundraiser when she called many of the GOP candidate's supporters “racist, sexist, homophobic, xenophobic, Islamophobic, you name it.”

Trump’s camp immediately responded to Clinton’s comments by noting that they “revealed just how little she thinks of the hard-working men and women of America.”

In Clinton’s statement Saturday, the former Secretary of State addressed Trump’s rebuke: “As I said, many of Trump’s supporters are hard-working Americans who just don’t feel like the economy or our political system are working for them. I’m determined to bring our country together and make our economy work for everyone, not just those at the top. Because we really are ‘stronger together.’”