The DNC just had its first meeting since Hillary Clinton lost. It didn't go well.

The Democratic National Committee's meeting Thursday, its first since Hillary Clinton unexpectedly lost Tuesday's presidential election, culminated in a staffer shouting at interim DNC chair Donna Brazile for enabling Donald Trump's success. While Brazile was giving a "rip-roaring" speech apparently intended to hearten the Democratic troops, a staffer identified only as Zach stood up to ask a question, The Huffington Post reports: "Why should we trust you as chair to lead us through this?"
Zach, as confirmed by two DNC employees, continued to criticize Brazile, saying, "You backed a flawed candidate, and your friend [former DNC chair Debbie Wasserman Schultz] plotted through this to support your own gain and yourself." He then went on to tell Brazile that she and her "friends will die of old age," while he'll "die from climate change." "You and your friends let this happen, which is going to cut 40 years off my life expectancy," Zach said, per The Huffington Post's report.
Two DNC staffers confirmed the incident. A DNC spokesman declined to comment, while Brazile declined in an email to The Huffington Post to "discuss our internal meetings." Brazile will be the DNC's interim chair until March 2017, when chairmanship elections are held.
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