Quartz — The DNC’s email scandal shows democracy is rotten and Hillary Clinton may be a crook, China’s state media says

Hacked emails from the Democratic National Committee have given China’s state-backed media another chance to criticize the US’s political system, democracy in general, and presidential candidate Hillary Clinton.

The emails, which showed Democratic party officials were hostile to Bernie Sanders’s presidential campaign and gave high-level White House access to Clinton donors, are being held up by China’s state-back media as proof that something is very rotten in the US.

“The batch of bombshell e-mails reveals that the Clinton campaign colluded with high-ranking Democratic officials in the nominating process, participated in ‘money laundering’ and manipulated media coverage,” the Global Times wrote on July 27. “This almost proves Clinton is really a ‘crook,’ as Donald Trump calls her.”

It goes on: “This ‘e-mail gate’ exposes the dirty side of US democracy under a glossy cover. The minority at the top of the pyramidal system willfully manipulate resources, playing with the support of the public and fans.”

The Global Times went further in Chinese, saying “Even if Hillary becomes the President, she might be problematic president, like a person who goes to work with an illness.”…

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The DNC’s email scandal shows democracy is rotten and Hillary Clinton may be a crook, China’s state media says

Echo Huang Pinyin

Email exchanges involving top officials at the Democratic National Committee released along with private documents by WikiLeaks show that DNC officials hoped to reward top donors and insiders with appointments to federal boards and commissions in coordination with the White House.

The revelations give an inside look into how the Democratic Party attempted to leverage its access and influence with the White House to bring in cash.…

Looks like Trump is on to something with "Hillary Rotten Clinton."

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