(The Event Chronicle) In October 2016, with the contest for U.S. president heating up for the November 8 vote, thousands of emails damaging to the Clinton campaign were released on Wikileaks. Shocking evidence of political corruption involving the Clinton Foundation, the Clinton Campaign, and the campaign’s manager, John Podesta (among many other parties), emerged. An unprecedented collusion between the corporate media and the Clinton campaign was revealed, with proof that presidential debate questions were shared in advance with Clinton, that Clinton had editorial control of many of the “news” articles published by the corporate media, and that $100’s of millions were donated to Clinton by the Saudi government and other foreign entities, presenting a clear violation of US election law. The media bias in support of Clinton and against any of her rivals was unprecedented.
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