Claire Bernish
June 8, 2016

A firestorm exploded on Monday night when the AP abruptly announced Clinton had garnered sufficient delegates and superdelegates to clinch the nomination — before California even held its primary. Irate voters justifiably condemned the inexplicable announcement as premature, especially in light of California polls showing Clinton outpaced by or neck and neck with Bernie Sanders.

While the AP report had been widely condemned, many took it a step further, suspecting the Democratic establishment might have had its hands in the effort.

Now, it appears those suspicions may have been vindicated.

A Twitter user under the handle @Cold_Stare posted a video clip of an email she received from Hillary Clinton’s campaign. Embedded in a red graphic with the caption, “So this just happened,” sits an image of the tweet the AP posted with its announcement.

As @Cold_Stare demonstrates, when she copied the image address url and placed it in her browser, a portion of that url contains the words “secret win V2” — with V2 likely indicating ‘version 2.’ Even more revealing, that url bears the date June 4, 2016 — two days prior to the contentious announcement from the Associated Press.

SNIP