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WikiLeaks Emails Show Clinton Spokeswoman Joking about Catholics and Evangelicals

posted on October 12, 2016

The Washington Post‘s Sarah Pulliam Bailey reports, “The latest batch of documents published by WikiLeaks appears to show Hillary Clinton’s campaign communications director joking with a confidant about Catholics and evangelicals in emails sent to John Podesta, chairman of Clinton’s campaign.” Jennifer Palmieri, who is Catholic and was then at the Center for American Progress, joked in an email that conservatives found Catholicism to be “the most socially acceptable politically conservative religion.” She wrote, “Their rich friends wouldn’t understand if they became evangelicals.”

Read at The Washington Post