Neera Tanden, focus of 2016 hack, rips 'double standard' in coverage of Trump campaign's hacked materials

[BumRushDaShow]

Source: The Hill

08/13/24 7:35 PM ET


Neera Tanden, a top official in the Biden White House, expressed outrage over what she called a “double standard” in the media’s response to a hack of the Trump campaign after her communications were extensively covered following a 2016 hack of the Clinton campaign.

Tanden, who leads the White House Domestic Policy Council, aired her frustration with the general lack of coverage of the hacked materials from the Trump campaign, given the focus on hacked materials published by WikiLeaks in 2016.

“Seriously the double standard here is incredible,” Tanden posted Tuesday on the social platform X. “For all the yapping on interviews, it would be great for people making these decisions to be accountable to the public. Do they now admit they were wrong in 2016 or is the rule hacked materials are only used when it hurts Dems? There’s no in between.”

Tanden said The New York Times used hacked emails published by WikiLeaks in 2019 stories but has not used hacked materials from the Trump campaign in recent days. In a subsequent post, Tanden pushed back on the suggestion that the WikiLeaks materials were covered more extensively because they were published in the public domain. “The manner of the hacking made them cover a Russian psyop? That is not a justification. That’s a rationalization,” Tanden wrote.

Read more: https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/4826683-neera-tanden-trump-campaign-hacked-materials/

[Lonestarblue]

1. The Washington Post justified their refusal to publish by saying the information had no public interest.

No public interest for the man who would be next in line for president if Trump is elected! Yet every accusation and salacious story about Hunter Biden, a man not running for any public office, was public interest.

The media is just so depressingly horrible today.

[COL Mustard]

4. I hope that on the day after the election

Joe will pardon Hunter for any offenses. Time to move on.

[2naSalit]

2. Clear double standard...

'nuff said.

[barbtries]

3. i've noticed that.

it cannot be a mistake that nobody is publishing the hacked documents. When it was Hillary it was all over the news. It's so wrong.

Anonymous are you out there? do your thing. i mean please, do your thing.

[Zoomie1986]

5. But according to the media's besties here on DU

We're out of our minds when we criticize the media for blatant anti-Democratic bias.

As with MAGA, no evidence one presents demonstrating it ever changes their minds.

[True Blue American]

6. The Trump info was not hacked. It was leaked by Trump and company

That is why the newspapers refused to print it.

[Miguelito Loveless]

7. How many times does the Corporate Media

have to prove that they want Trump to win?

The Harris/Walz campaign should start giving interviews only to newspapers/networks that actually do their job, like CSPAN and The Guardian.