[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.