[mrschwabe]

For additional context, also note Eric Schmidt's consultant role which was revealed in HRC's leaked emails:

https://qz.com/823922/eric-schmidt-played-a-crucial-role-in-...

https://www.businessinsider.com/wikileaks-emails-google-eric...

https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/37262

[mikeyouse]

There was essentially no new news in the hacked emails -- People had been reporting for years that Schmidt was supporting HRC's presidential bid, including forming a startup to help her with engineering talent:

https://qz.com/520652/groundwork-eric-schmidt-startup-workin...

[mrschwabe]

Well it is a confirmation a paid arrangement was in place, which is actually big deal.

Anyone paid to consult or render services for that campaign should be under intense scrutiny.

[mikeyouse]

They are.. which is why they have dozens of entries in the FEC's disbursement database since June 2015:

https://www.fec.gov/data/disbursements/?two_year_transaction...

[akhilcacharya]

He’s been a notable Democratic donor for a while - he even invited Obama to a talk at Google and asked him about how to sort a billion integers.

[lamarpye]

I have meet people that believe Obama knew how to do it.

[magicalist]

Wow, he advised them to make a smartphone app and to use the cloud instead of spinning up their own servers. What a scoop.

[mciak]

When Schmidt was ousted, people speculated that it was in part due to his links to the candidate who lost