Hillary Clinton’s campaign chief John Podesta approved of a discussion about a rapper’s “sexualized image,” telling a donor it was relevant to “gender and racial and booty equity.”

The exchange began with an Aug. 2, 2014, message from Herbert Sandler, a former banker and founding member of the Center for American Progress, to Neera Tanden, the group’s president, about a blog post published by ThinkProgress, a website run by the organization.