http://pagesix.com/2015/05/19/abc-turned-blind-eye-to-stephanopoulos-clinton-ties/?_ga=1.186242528.853495231.1367328433Stephanopoulos ‘helped hatch’ Dem strategy in 2009
By Emily Smith and Bruce Golding
May 19, 2015 | 11:01pm
George Stephanopoulos never really left Clinton-land — and it didn’t bother his bosses at ABC News.
Back in 2009, when he was already anchoring “This Week” and about to take over “Good Morning America,” Stephanopoulos maintained daily phone contact with high-powered Democrats tied to ex-President Bill Clinton.
According to a Politico report that’s resurfaced amid the scandal over his $75,000 in gifts to the Clinton Foundation, Stephanopoulos was one of four Clinton insiders who took part in “round-robin chatter” during which Democratic strategy was “quite likely . . . being hatched.”
Stephanopoulos was quoted as saying, “We just like talking to each other, and I learn a lot from it . . . and that’s why we’ve been doing it for so long.”
ABC spokeswoman Heather Riley — who also worked in the Clinton White House — insisted Tuesday that the story “wasn’t true then, and it isn’t true now” but also acknowledged: “Does he talk to his friends every once in a while? Sure.”
