Clinton campaign chief Robby Mook said Sunday there is “no evidence” that Democratic operatives, who admitted to staging violent incidents at Donald Trump’s campaign rallies and had ties to the party’s national committee, were ever employed by the former secretary of state’s campaign.
“There’s no evidence whatsoever that we have been able to find that anyone ever did anything like this when they were working at the Democratic National Committee,” Mook said on CNN’s “State of the Union.”
“These individuals no longer have a relationship with the DNC,” he said, adding that that “they’ve never had a relationship with the Clinton campaign.”
The individuals in question — Democracy Partners consultant Bob Creamer and Democratic operative Scott Foval — were both caught on camera last week discussing instances in which they hired mentally ill and homeless people to instigate violence at various Trump campaign events.
“What I call it is conflict engagement … we’re starting anarchy here,” Foval said in the undercover video released by Project Veritas. Both Foval and Creamer have since been fired from their respective posts.
“This was a video that was leaked out with the purpose of damaging the campaign. It was edited, so we don’t know what the full context is,” Mook said.
He added, “It’s unacceptable for anyone from either party to do that, but again no one who was working for the DNC or the Clinton campaign was doing that.”
Clinton campaign strategist Joel Benenson also suggested Sunday morning that the videos were “deceptively edited.”
