The woman who asked a question that former CNN contributor Donna Brazile leaked to Hillary Clinton’s campaign before a presidential debate staged by the network thinks the Democratic candidate “should be disqualified.”
Lee-Anne Walters told Fox News’ Jenna Lee on Tuesday that Clinton “should be disqualified because she had had an advantage she shouldn’t have had.”
A recent batch of hacked emails released on WikiLeaks revealed that Brazile provided Clinton at least one question in advance while she was a CNN contributor. The email sent by Brazile to Clinton chairman John Podesta and communications chief Jennifer Palmieri features the subject line “One of the questions directed to HRC tomorrow is from a woman with a rash.”
Walters identified herself as the “woman with a rash” when speaking to Fox News.
The body of the email said, “Her family has lead poison and she will ask what, if anything, will Hillary do as president to help the ppl of Flint.”
Brazile, who works as both a Democratic strategist and pundit, was vice chair of the Democratic National Committee for part of the 2016 election, and became interim DNC chair in July after Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz stepped down over Wikileaks’ release of emails that indicated the DNC aided Clinton’s campaign in the primary instead of remaining neutral, as it is supposed to do.
CNN cut ties with Brazile earlier this month, but didn’t say so until Monday, after news of the leaks broke.
“On October 14th, CNN accepted Donna Brazile’s resignation as a CNN contributor. (Her deal had previously been suspended in July when she became the interim head of the DNC),” CNN said in a statement. “CNN never gave Brazile access to any questions, prep material, attendee list, background information or meetings in advance of a town hall or debate. We are completely uncomfortable with what we have learned about her interactions with the Clinton campaign while she was a CNN contributor.”