What Happened to Bernie Sanders

The story of what went on behind the scenes of the 2016 Democratic primary election—told by the lawyer who filed a class-action suit against the DNC. There have been countless conversations about why Hillary Clinton lost to Donald Trump in the electoral college in 2016—but little attention was paid to the primary process that elevated Clinton as the Democratic candidate. Now, a lawyer who labored to expose the shadowy tactics and campaign double-dealing and who sued the Democratic National Committee and Debbie Wasserman Schultz for collusion and fraud—for conspiring as a whole to make sure Hillary Clinton was the Democratic presidential candidate—offers his take on what truly transpired during the primaries and National Convention. Using uncovered documents and other primary sources, Jared H. Beck shows that Bernie Sanders lost to Hillary Clinton because he never had a chance to win. He illustrates how a web of forces, emanating from elite interests through the mainstream media and Democratic political establishment, and fronted by the Democratic National Committee, operated to ensure that Clinton would secure the nomination. The story of the 2016 Democratic primaries is not one of being “stronger together” or “making America great again”; it is one of how corruption has critically eroded America’s political institutions to the point of crippling democracy itself.