WSJ: White House, State Dept. officials cooperated to sidestep 'swirl of crap' over Clinton's email server

Brett T. | 10:06 PM on October 06, 2016

Now that the election is close both in the polls and in the days remaining until Election Day, reporters are “obtaining” some interesting documents. The New York Times, of course, received one of Donald Trump’s old tax returns in the mail from an anonymous sender, and now the Republican National Committee has obtained even more emails about Hillary Clinton’s home-brew server, which it passed on to the Wall Street Journal.

What could possibly be left to learn? A lot, apparently.

White House interceded with State Department on Clinton emails, asked Kerry to avoid queries, new disclosure shows https://t.co/J32gLdciwp

— Gerard Baker (@gerardtbaker) October 7, 2016

New emails show Clinton camp was in close contact w/Obama officials about fallout from her private server @ByronTau https://t.co/6rY1Ikb5pu

— Rebecca Ballhaus (@rebeccaballhaus) October 7, 2016

If President Obama really does learn everything by hearing it on the news along with the public, this new email leak ought to garner his interest.

Reminder: Obama said that he first learned about Clinton emails through news reports. But he had been emailing to her private account. https://t.co/O5WdUk5Vgu

— Gabriel Malor (@gabrielmalor) October 7, 2016

The Journal reported Thursday night that emails obtained by the RNC show, 10 days after the server story broke, White House communications director Jennifer Palmieri and State Department spokeswoman Jennifer “Promise of Hashtag” Psaki apparently coordinating efforts to shield Secretary of State John Kerry from having to confront “the swirl of crap out there” in the wake of the New York Times’ story on the server — “think we can get this done so he is not asked about email,” one exchange reads.