Clintons nearly drove top staffer to suicide, email claims

[MikeWB]

Chelsea Clinton was "more concerned" about an article in The Post "about her father and a multitude of women over the years" than about the health of two senior Clinton Foundation officials — one of whom threatened to kill herself, according to an explosive WikiLeaks email released Monday.

In a December 2011 email exchange, Bill Clinton's closest aide, Doug Band, told other Clinton aides that he had to talk foundation COO Laura Graham out of driving her car into the water on Staten Island because she was under such stress caused by "wjc and cvc as well as that of her family." The reference appears to be to William Jefferson "Bill" Clinton and Chelsea Victoria Clinton.

"She was on staten island in her car parked a few feet from the waters edge with her foot on the gas pedal and the car in park. She called me to tell me the stress of all of this office crap with wjc and cvc as well as that of her family had driven her to the edge and she couldn't take it anymore," Band wrote to Hillary Clinton's then-State Department chief of staff, Cheryl Mills, along with Bill Clinton's former chief of staff, John Podesta, and Justin Cooper, the aide who helped set up and maintain Hillary Clinton's private email server.
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Laura Graham, executive director of the Clinton Foundation, with former President Bill Clinton in 2010.Photo: Getty Images

Band said he reached her brother and her shrink, and Graham pulled back. She was the foundation COO and is now an adviser to the foundation.

Band also wrote how "stress" at the Clinton Foundation directly caused "very serious health issues" for board chairman Bruce Lindsey.

"But I'm sure Chelsea is more concerned with a mostly false story in the distinguished ny post about mf global and teneo not her role in what happened to laura/bruce, what she is doing to the organization or the several of stories that have appeared in the ny post about her father and a multitude of women over the years," Band wrote.
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"Its going to hurt teneo to have wjc on the adv bd any longer but we need come up with a reorg concept for the relationship with wjc and teneo that is lower key and handled privately and properly that we should discuss. Life is to short so let's have a call and get this over with," he added.

In a separate email, Clinton campaign chief Podesta also knocked a big Clinton booster, David Brock, a conservative-turned-liberal advocate, for bringing up Bernie Sanders' health records.

"Maybe he actually is a republican plant," said Podesta in an email to former aide Neera Tanden.

"Hard to think of anything more counterproductive than demanding Bernie's medical records."