She was once in hot water for slipping questions to Hillary Clinton ahead of town hall events in the 2016 primaries. Now, Donna Brazile is coming out against Hillary in full force. On Thursday, the political analyst confirmed what many already suspected.

Hillary’s campaign wielded financial power over the Democratic National Convention, securing Hillary’s rise as the 2016 DNC presidential nominee.

Brazile divulged the details in a column for Politico, excerpted from her forthcoming book.

“If the fight had been fair, one campaign would not have control of the party before the voters had decided which one they wanted to lead,” she writes. While not criminal, “it compromised the party’s integrity.”

Following the Money

Last year what was thought to be a Russian hack left thousands of DNC emails exposed on the Internet. Some of the email leaks suggested Hillary’s campaign was rigging the nomination process. After the leak, Brazile stepped in as interim DNC chairwoman in July 2016. From the outset, Brazile was on a mission to expose corruption, she claims. “So I followed the money.”

In her column, she points fingers at former DNC chairwoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz, who stepped down after the email release. According to Brazile, Wasserman Schultz didn’t keep other Democratic Party officers well informed. Nor did she maintain control over party finances.

So when Brazile, an officer, called Hillary’s campaign CFO, she was shocked. The party was broke, he said. And $2 million in debt. How was it staying afloat? Hillary. Brazile explains:

Obama left the party $24 million in debt …. Obama’s campaign was not scheduled to pay it off until 2016. Hillary for America (the campaign) and the Hillary Victory Fund (its joint fundraising vehicle with the DNC) had taken care of 80 percent of the remaining debt in 2016, about $10 million, and had placed the party on an allowance.

Hillary Gave “Life Support” to the DNC

Such “financial shenanigans” kept the party “on life support,” Brazile writes. Meanwhile, “the campaign was using the party as a fund-raising clearinghouse.”

Individuals cannot legally donate more than $2,700 to a presidential campaign, Donna writes. “But the limits are much higher for contributions to state parties and a party’s national committee.” So Hillary’s campaign manager Robby Mook and Wasserman Schultz signed an agreement. Under it, much of the money donated to state parties was quickly transferred to the DNC. Then the money went to Clinton headquarters.

The same agreement stipulated that Hillary would control Democratic Party finances, strategy, fundraising — even staffing decisions. And when was this agreement signed? August 2015. “Just four months after Hillary announced her candidacy,” Brazile writes. And “nearly a year before she officially had the nomination.”

Brazile says she called Sanders in September 2016 to report what she had found. He took it “stoically.” She cried.