Yup, this sounds like a psychopaths reasoning and excuse-list:

You knew that we were biased and still donated to your candidate - you should have known that we were lying and that it was not merely biased but completely rigged, so it's your own fault that you were defrauded and the case should be chucked - and you have no proof (apart from a stack of it) that our epic cheating affected the nomination results - so the case should be thrown out.

In any event, it's OK for us to say you have a choice in your nominee when we won't allow you one and let you donate to what we pretend is a nomination race when it isn't, since we're a private party and can tell you who you're allowed to have as a Presidential non-choice. Because we've decided that the pretend-democracy we once allowed you should be thrown out for direct corporate/billionaire rule.

They are, indeed, done pretending - in most areas.

"Good Democrats" seem to do these days...

Decline to answer under the 5th amendment...

"The guy with the gold makes the rules."

End of story.

The wording of their defense indicates malice aforethought to commit fraud. How fuckin' stupid can they get?

Who cares about 'em anyway?

--Hoe;s that? I am French/English bilingual, might have been possible earlier. Some communities in the Maritimes may be granting citizen rights, and jobs. Look around.

Well, they've come out and clearly stated that anyone who donates to the DNC is a sucker waiting to be defrauded; that they will lie and cheat; that they'll produce results according to whatever their big donors want against virtually every informed voter/small donor's desires and interests - so do not trust or donate to them unless you want to be taken advantage of. SUC-KERSSSSS!

This is evidently the last fake election that will be run, if any corporate/TPP supporting candidate gets in (leaving a Bernie miracle or Jill as the only survivable choices) probably because legislation is about to be outsourced offshore anyway, for corporate/billionaire power and gain only.

It's indicative of a feeling not merely that they don't need voters because they can make their own votes again, but that the voters are nothing but disposable chattels deserving of contempt even as they are used. (Much as they themselves will be served, in turn.)

This seems especially obvious when taken in conjunction with the multiple additional unauthorized charges recently stolen from small-time Hillary supporters, possibly so that her number of donors looks very high in current FEC records pre-election, as it now does due to this, even though many may be refunded where complaints were made, and so that Hillary's time spent at big-money fundraisers rather than campaigning doesn't result in a low number of donors, showing, also, perhaps too low for legality, since campaign finance and other 'rules and laws do not apply to the Clintons' but the optics for that still matter pre-election, with so many grimy Clinton crimes showing already.

In any event, DNC staff have evidenced no problem feeling contempt even for their own large donors, as demonstrated in released/leaked emails, and absolutely no problem publicly showing it for the American electorate, even for their own small donors, to the point of blatantly stealing from them, never mind cheating them of any choice as to Presidential candidates, even stating that they did not need Bernie supporters votes, albeit still demanding fealty, and generally ensuring that a high level of the population would never vote Dem again, even if further elections are held.

This indicates to me that all pretense is likely done as soon as Her Royal Coronation takes place, if not as soon as President Obama hands domestic law over to the New Corporate Empire with the TPP. But it seems that that's to be done in November, as soon as the corporate candidate has been named the lucky winner of the job of corporate manager of the North American corporate Assets, while they have need of her and/or while those human and other corporate assets survive unlimited corporate abuses. So I'm betting on then.

But this needs to be viral, if we don't wish to be factory-farmed to death in the interest of maximized corporate profits, with no protections at all, in any area.