After her campaign called him “disappointing” and accusing him of “theft,” Hillary Clinton accepted Bernie Sanders’ apology for his campaign’s illicit breach of data, during the Democratic debate on Saturday night.
“Not only do I apologize to Secretary Clinton, and I hope we can work together on this, but I want to apologize to my supporters. This is not the campaign we run, and if I find others, they will also be fired,” Sanders said of the recent data breach accusation.
While the Sanders campaign admitted that the data breach last week did occur within their campaign, they claimed it was only possible because of a malfunction from the Democratic National Committee-contracted software company.
Though the Clinton campaign was not directly involved in the subsequent legal battle between the DNC and the Sanders campaign, they seized the opportunity to condemn the ethics and practices of the Vermont Senator. They raised funds off the breach and called it “totally unacceptable” and a “violation of the law.”
The Democratic Socialist said he looked forward to an ongoing independent investigation on “all the data breaches that have occurred from day one in this campaign, because I am not convinced that information from our campaign may not have ended up in her campaign.”
“I very much appreciate that comment Bernie. It is very important that we go forward on this,” Clinton responded. “Now that I think we’ve resolved your data we’ve agreed on an independent inquiry we should move on because I don’t think the American people are interested in this. I think they’re more interested in what we have to say on all these issues.”
During the first Democratic debate Sanders offered Clinton a similar olive branch, telling the audience that the American people are “sick of hearing about your damn emails!”
