Politico’s Glenn Thrush is apparently one big suck up.
A new John Podesta email released by Wikileaks on Thursday shows Thrush shared more articles — or at least portions of them — with Hillary Clinton’s campaign prior to publication.
“Glenn Thrush is doing a story about how well launch went and some part of it will be about me – which I hate,” Communications Director Jennifer Palmieri wrote to Huma Abedin, Robby Mook and Podesta on April 17, 2015.
“He did me courtesy of sending what he is going to say about me. Seems fine. Just didn’t want folks to think I went looking for this!”
Below that were eight paragraphs from Thrush’s yet-to-be-published story.
The subject line included “don’t share,” but that’s exactly what Palmieri did. So not only is Thrush a suck up, he’s naive, too.
It’s not the first time Thrush has appeared in Podesta’s emails.
Fox News reports:
A Politico reporter called himself a “hack” when he asked Hillary Clinton’s top campaign aide John Podesta to look over sections of his unpublished report on the Democratic presidential candidate before publication, a recent email revealed by WikiLeaks shows.
The May 2015 story, written by Glenn Thrush, Politico’s chief White House correspondent, was titled, “Hillary’s big-money dilemma.” The article focused on early difficulties Clinton’s campaign would face to raise money during the 2016 White House run.
But the language used in his email raised eyebrows, especially in the conservative blogosphere.
“Because I have become a hack I will send u the whole section that pertains to u [sic],” Thrush wrote to Podesta. “Please don’t share or tell anyone I did this…tell me if I f—ed up anything.”
Podesta responded and gave the section his blessing.
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