Clinton’s 2016 campaign while running the think tank, and was considered a candidate for a top White House job had Mrs. Tanden, whose salary was $397,000 in 2018, was an unpaid adviser to Mrs. It also received $225,000 from the private foundation of a Walmart heir, Sam Walton. Last year, the center got $1 million from the family foundation of Jonathan Lavine, a managing partner at Bain Capital, and at least $1 million from the tech industry’s Silicon Valley Community Foundation. Money to the Center for American Progress from the personal foundation of the Facebook creator Mark Zuckerberg surged to $665,000 in 2018 from $15,000 in 2017, while Facebook fended off scrutiny for mishandling users’ personal data, fueling violence and providing a platform for Russian election interference. Individual donors can ask to remain anonymous. The think tank has taken in millions from interests often criticized by liberals, including Wall Street financiers, big banks, Silicon Valley titans, foreign governments, defense contractors and the health care industry. Its donor rolls overlap substantially with those of the Clintons’ campaigns and foundation.
Sanders’s team remains convinced that the Democratic establishment worked behind the scenes to deprive him of the party’s nomination in 2016 his campaign has cast the group as beholden to corporate interests set on thwarting him in 2020. The blowup is another reflection of the ideological divisions among Democrats, this time between a legacy Clinton organization and a liberal wing trying to move the party to the left to harness the energy of millennials. Tanden of “maligning my staff and supporters and belittling progressive ideas.” Sanders, angry about a video produced by ThinkProgress that ridicules his new status as one of the millionaires he has vilified on the campaign trail, sent a scorching letter to the center’s board, accusing Ms. Shakir runs Bernie Sanders’s presidential campaign and the enmity between the two camps burst into the open last weekend. Tanden now leads the Center for American Progress, Mr. “I didn’t slug him, I pushed him,” a still angry Ms.
Shakir after the interview and, according to a person in the room, punching him in the chest. Clinton a question about the Iraq war, an issue dogging her candidacy because she had supported it. But Faiz Shakir, the chief editor of the think tank’s ThinkProgress website, asked Mrs. Clinton to what was expected to be an easy interview at the Center for American Progress, the influential group founded by top Clinton aides. In 2008, Neera Tanden, then a top aide on Hillary Clinton’s first presidential campaign, accompanied Mrs. WASHINGTON - The bad blood started early.
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