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 Trumps.
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 Gillibrands (D-N.Y.) team issued a statement in the senators 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
HopeAgain
(4,407 posts)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)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)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.
efhmc
(14,709 posts)nt
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(22,649 posts)Fuck Russpublican traitors!