Democratic activist David Hogg shed fresh light on his internal battle with the Democratic National Committee during his tenure as vice chair earlier this year at The Hill Nation Summit in Washington on Wednesday.

Hogg said he was ultimately given an ultimatum to do nothing with his group, Leaders We Deserve, and “collect a check” or keep his “largely ceremonial title” as vice chair at the DNC.

“I want to say this publicly because I think I’m going to be vindicated in four years unfortunately,” Hogg told this reporter. “There have been vice chairs before that have had leadership PACs that have given to people in primaries, that have given to and against incumbents in primaries, and in the 107-plus years of the DNC, there has not been a bylaw that has been put into place that say to vice chairs you cannot be involved in primaries other than the presidential.”

Hogg argued that his treatment by the DNC was effectively a “double standard” that was selectively enforced against him and warned that the “archaic” restrictions barring vice chairs from giving to candidates with their leadership PACs will ultimately come back to haunt the party.

“When I talked to people in the DNC about a theoretical situation where a future president appoints, lets say a governor to be a vice chair, and that vice chair has a leadership pac, and they give to somebody in their own state whether it’s for an incumbent or against an........

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