If the Biden administration is so concerned about disinformation, it may want to take a closer look at its own “czar.”
Nina Jankowicz, who was recently tapped to head the Department of Homeland Security’s nascent Disinformation Governance Board, had no qualms about pushing the since-debunked claim in 2016 that then-presidential candidate Donald Trump had a tie to Kremlin-linked Alfa-Bank — allegations that were raised by Hillary Clinton’s campaign and are now a focus of special counsel John Durham’s investigation.
Jankowicz tweeted about the purported link on Nov. 1, 2016, one day after the connection was explored in a piece on the left-wing website Slate. Her post was initially uncovered by the Washington Examiner.
“Husband texted me ‘you have news to wake up to.’ Never thought it would be this,” she tweeted at the time. “Confirms our worst fears about Trump. I am horrified.”
Jankowicz shared a tweet from Hillary Clinton that the Democratic nominee had posted one day earlier, on Halloween.
”It’s time for Trump to answer serious questions about his ties to Russia,” Clinton said in the post, which linked to a photo with the caption: “Donald Trump has a secret server (Yes, Donald Trump). It was set up to communicate privately with a Putin-tied Russian bank called Alfa Bank.”
Jankowicz later tweeted that “Trump had not one, but two secret email servers to communicate with influential Russian bank. Unbelievable.”
Her tweet linked to the Slate article about the Trump...
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