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DonViejo

(60,536 posts)
Fri Feb 22, 2019, 10:21 AM Feb 2019

EXCLUSIVE Trump Won't Rule Out Using Stolen Data in 2020 Campaign

Source: The Daily Beast



Democratic candidates have committed not to use hacked materials against one another. The Trump campaign declined to make such a pledge.

Sam Stein, Jackie Kucinich, Scott Bixby

02.21.19 9:01 PM ET

Nearly three years after hacked materials upended the 2016 presidential campaign, every Democratic candidate running for the White House has pledged not to knowingly use such material should they end up being published during the current election cycle.

Only one 2020 campaign declined to make such a commitment: President Donald Trump’s.

The Daily Beast asked each presidential campaign either up-and-running or in its exploratory phase whether they would commit to not knowingly using or referencing hacked material that appears online on grounds that it may have been obtained illegally.

Each Democratic candidate responded with some form of commitment to not used hacked materials. Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand’s (D-N.Y.) team issued a statement in the senator’s name in which she stressed that both campaigns and members of the media needed to “learn serious lessons from their cyber attack on our election systems in 2016.”


Read more: https://www.thedailybeast.com/every-2020-candidate-but-trump-promises-no-stolen-data

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EXCLUSIVE Trump Won't Rule Out Using Stolen Data in 2020 Campaign (Original Post) DonViejo Feb 2019 OP
They see that as admitting they did something wrong HopeAgain Feb 2019 #1
Much of the proof Trump is crooked is stolen data, most leaks are stolen data Cicada Feb 2019 #2
Then trump just admitted to being an accesory to a crime DirtEdonE Feb 2019 #3
Goodness but that is a sad statement but tragically true. efhmc Feb 2019 #4
I can hear Hannity spinning the "both sides do it" meme in 3-2-1 ffr Feb 2019 #5

HopeAgain

(4,407 posts)
1. They see that as admitting they did something wrong
Fri Feb 22, 2019, 10:29 AM
Feb 2019

Their very last line of defense will be "Yes, okay, so we did it all, but it wasn't illegal or even unethical."

Cicada

(4,533 posts)
2. Much of the proof Trump is crooked is stolen data, most leaks are stolen data
Fri Feb 22, 2019, 10:30 AM
Feb 2019

Investigative journalism often relies on leaks of stolen information. The Pentagon papers. Classified information given to the Washington Post about the Watergate burglary. The huge New York Times story about massive Trump family tax fraud came from stolen Trump family documents.

 

DirtEdonE

(1,220 posts)
3. Then trump just admitted to being an accesory to a crime
Fri Feb 22, 2019, 10:33 AM
Feb 2019

I won't even bother saying "lock him up" because it just doesn't look very likely to me anymore that justice will ever be done.

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