2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: Guess who initiated the investigation into Clinton's emails? John Kerry [View all]Peace Patriot
(24,010 posts)...and Sanders visit to the Obama at the White House was after that.
Just stopped to look it up. "Damn emails" was in the 1st debate, on or just after Oct. 13, 2015 (the date of all the google articles on the 1st debate).
Sanders visit to the White House was much later. I'm going to look it up. I saw Sanders visit to the White House recently tied to the bullet hole that was shot into Sanders headquarters in Nevada, maybe on his 1st visit to Nevada (probably Las Vegas)? Commenter said he got Secret Service protection after that. But I don't think that's right. A presidential candidate does not have to go to the White House to get Secret Service protection. A phone call will do. (Nor does a national security briefing need a visit to the White House. I'm pretty sure that presidents don't personally conduct national security briefings for presidential candidates.)
White House visit was January 27, 2016, three months after the "damn emails" comment. Sanders hadn't yet won the NH primary (where he demolished Clinton; Sanders NH won with 60+% of the vote).
It remains a mystery why Obama wanted a one-on-one with Sanders in the midst of the early campaign (Jan. 27, 2016).