Wikileaks — Podesta Warned Clinton Staffers: ‘She’s Down and Needs to Stay Down’
Charlie Spiering | Breitbart
Oct 11, 2016
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Hillary Clinton campaign chief John Podesta warned staffers that Hillary would be unavailable to personally address a controversy in the campaign.

“She’s down tomorrow and needs (t)o stay down,” he wrote shortly, after a Democratic consultant urged Clinton to call “Chris Geidner at BuzzFeed” to address the situation personally.

The email was part of Clinton’s campaign manager John Podesta’s emails released by WikiLeaks.

The controversy featured Clinton’s position on the Defense of Marriage Act signed by former President Bill Clinton while he was in office, stirring a negative reaction from the LGBT community.

During an interview with Rachel Maddow, Clinton argued that her husband signed the bill to stop “political momentum” to amend the Constitution.

“There had to be some way to stop that,” Clinton said. “In a lot of ways, DOMA was a line that was drawn that was to prevent going further.”

That message rang hollow to liberal LGBT activists, who called the Clintons out on the talking point.

Hillary’s rival Bernie Sanders also took up the fight.

“Today, some are trying to rewrite history by saying that they voted for one antigay law to stop something worse,” Sanders said pointedly during his speech at the Jefferson-Jackson dinner in Iowa. “That’s not the case.”