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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...

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.

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...

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.

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

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

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