Thread by @ahumorlessfem

Okay, I am at home, I got a bunch of links open and I am ready to start explaining in mindnumbing detail the HVF.

That would be the Hillary Victory Fund that was a joint fundraising agreement between the Clinton campaign, the DNC and the state parties.

Hillary Clinton has a rolodex the size of Milwaukee and she can and has raised ENORMOUS amounts of money.

One reporter estimated that she has raised something like 3 billion dollars for Democrats in 50 years in politics.

So when the Supreme Court struck down caps on how much people could give, she was able to ruthlessly exploit a loophole.

Which meant she could and did raise up to $700,000 per person per year for the 32 parties, her campaign and the DNC.

Hillary Clinton was not running for Prom Queen remember-she was running for president and yes, that means exploiting all fundraising options

Even ones that piss you off personally. So Clinton started raising money with this joint fund. And raise they did-she got $529M through it.

But there was a catch. She couldn't really send out the money yet because she wasn't the nominee officially.

Which meant that she could benefit with her portion which was substantial:

"Well that is a lot of money. How dare she keep all that?!" Shut up Berner, I am not done.

During that time she kept racking up the money and it was stuck in a bank account waiting for that user and abuser Sanders to accept reality

And since the media hates all things Hillary-the media started making claims:

That was Politico by the way, they hate her there and it is no surprised their idiot reports graduated up to the NYTimes.

The WaPo even joined in:

But wait! the Berners screech in that annoying voice of theirs, that means it's TRUE SHE DIDN'T HELP!

Sadly they have memories shorter than mayflies & they probably forgot the posted amount up there of how much Clinton got. Here's a reminder:

And here's the total raised:

Now I am DEFINITELY not a math genius but even I can see that $158M is a lot less than $529M.

What happened to the rest of that money? "It was pocketed by Clinton! She sent it to the Clinton Foundation!" No, now sit down.

Here's where it went:

DNC Services Corp? that sounds odd. What is that? Some shadowy nefarious entity?! A SLUSH FUND?!

No.

It's the DNC's official name.

That's right. She gave it to the DNC.

Unlike the rest of us who are pretty fucking mad at them right now. Anyway, back to the rest of the money.

This is where it went:

That last one is probably a refund.

Here's my source: opensecrets.org/jfc/summary.ph…

So that's what happened to the money Politico was whining about not being disbursed to the states.

Because Clinton wasn't the nominee for so long she couldn't hand out the cash timely which means they had to play catch up.

In all the so very many ways that Bernie Sanders fucked with the Democratic Party, his staying in long past time to drop out was one of them

Because those states could have used the money in March of 2016. And certain states:

Needed that extra oomph. So as I said earlier-this is why I think Bernie Sanders can go to hell.

/fin