Eight years after targeting Hillary Clinton's email protocols, Trump's transition team is relying on private servers instead of secure government accounts.

Summary

Donald Trump’s transition team is relying on private email servers and devices instead of secure government accounts, raising cybersecurity concerns among federal officials as sensitive government data could be exposed.

This decision comes despite Trump previously criticizing Hillary Clinton’s email practices during the 2016 election, when he and Republicans framed her use of private email as reckless and dangerous.

Critics argue this inconsistency highlights insincerity, suggesting the prior outrage over Clinton’s emails was a politically motivated attack rather than a genuine concern about national security.

  • usernamesAreTricky@lemmy.ml
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    23 hours ago

    The language one uses matters in the long run even from hypocrites. It shifts national conversations and can sometimes force your hand. Eventually the people who fully believe the messaging will take over the party. It’s part of how the Republicans have let their own party shift so far to the right

    In terms of Wilker, I hadn’t read about that from him but looked into it some more as the article linked was brief. Found some others with more insight in to what he thinks about that. It very much still sounds like he thinks the system is broken, but doesn’t want to lose harder by not fully playing in it

    We have to be a party that can legislate based on our values. If that means a bunch of donors jump ship, so be it.

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    Wikler acknowledges he’s part of a broken political system and still believes, as he did at 17, that money should not determine who can run for office. “I think we should have public financing of elections.” But, he adds, “I don’t believe in unilateral disarmament.”

    https://isthmus.com/news/cover-story/teaching-an-old-party-new-tricks/