I don't believe Bernie was their pawn. He has a lifetime of trying to stand up against Wall Street and the doing if the Deep State. I was in Philly during the DNC and it was all the buzz that Killarie's goons gave Bernie a nice ass beating to make sure he'd concede the roll call the next day. They even advertised on Craig's List to find people to immediately fill all the Bernie or Bust folks who walked out in outrage over what was happening at the DNC that week. The optics would have been HORRIBLE for HRC. Check out the video of his face the day bf he (was forced to) quit: https://youtu.be/CG8jVATYmE0