This is a very interesting thread & insight worth digging into, although idea of Trump being told she has about 800 staff (that his staff read in some process story) and just making up an exact number to sound smart also seems like something Trump would dohttps://twitter.com/emptywheel/status/956590207582785537 …
I'd love if you could find that process story. On May 20, Politico reported 732, which would have been the last FEC reporting before the meeting and the most accurate number in that time period.
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I will put on my list to look around. Could also have just gone through the grapevine of chummy campaign pols that she had around 800. Best way to figure out would be someone from HRC camp to confirm what actual number was at time (Got a #
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As THE POST notes, I've spoken to 3 people who were involved in such things at the time. But thanks for telling me to do what I've already done.
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I'm not telling you what to do, I was just acknowledging that's the only way to confirm or disconfirm
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But even that isn't necessarily going to work. The FEC number won't include everyone considered "staff," especially given the transition from primary.
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Right, it would have to be from some internal database at that specific time
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