The origin story of Hillary Clinton's fan note to Julia Louis-Dreyfus might be the most Veep thing ever

The Veep actress has a Veep moment.
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Julia Louis-Dreyfus could hardly be mad when she found out that Hillary Clinton didn't actually write the fan letter she sent to the actress back in 2013. While the star of the HBO comedy Veep admits she initially thought that Clinton's letter meant she was a big fan of the show, she later found out it was instead evidence that the show's satirical portrayal of politics was even more spot-on than she'd realized.

One of the many Clinton email dumps revealed that the now-Democratic presidential candidate's letter wishing that Louis-Dreyfus gets "everything you want as Veep — gun control, immigration, and education reform" was actually the byproduct of some brainstorming with her then-aide, Robert V. Russo, who had never even seen the show:

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