[h=1]'No homo!' How DNC staffers under Wasserman Schultz used anti-gay slurs, mocked the name of an African-American assistant and created a sexist Craigslist job posting to humiliate Donald Trump[/h]
PUBLISHED: 22:59, 25 July 2016 | UPDATED: 00:59, 26 July 2016
- Thousands of private emails from the Democratic National Committee were published on WikiLeaks over the weekend
- Among the 20,000 emails, staffers ridiculed each other, made homophobic remarks and took favors from superdelegates
- The emails also appear to expose favoritism for presumptive Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton over Senator Bernie Sanders
- In one email, DNC staffer Luis Miranda approves a fake advertisement looking for 'hot' women who want to work for the Trump Organization
- In another, DNC Finance Director Jordan Kaplan trades favors with a superdelegate who's trying to get an acquaintance's daughter a job
- Kaplan goes on to make homophobic remarks in another email
- An administrative assistant at Haddad Brands, named LaQueenia Gibson, was mocked in an email because of her name
- An email shows DNC staffers making fun of a FOX News freelance reporter Fred Lucas
- Since the leak, DNC Chairwoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz has resigned and protesters have flocked to the Democratic National Convention
PUBLISHED: 22:59, 25 July 2016 | UPDATED: 00:59, 26 July 2016