by Frank Holmes, reporter
Joe Biden’s supporters say that anyone who questions the 2020 election is a “conspiracy theorist,” but his would-be Cabinet includes the woman behind one of the most potent, discredited conspiracy theories in U.S. history.
Biden announced that he wants Neera Tanden to become director of the Office of Management and Budget, which oversees the federal budget—one of the most powerful roles in Washington.
Tanden has promoted Christopher Steele’s now-discredited Russia dossier longer, harder, and more shamelessly than almost anyone in Washington.
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Tanden has a long and shady history as one of the closest Clinton insiders. She bounced between the staffs of Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama. And for nine years, she’s run the Center for American Progress—which George Soros founded with a $3 million grant.
From that well-funded perch, she hasn’t missed a chance to highlight tales of alleged “Russian collusion.”
She began sharing Russian conspiracies days before the election, tweeting on Halloween 2016 that there was a “Trump server connected to Russian bank”—a theory shot down by both Inspector General Michael Horowitz and the Senate Intelligence Committee.
Why does he lie about this?Because he knows people have intuitive sense Russians did enough damage to affect more than 70k votes in 3 states https://t.co/VFiptUz6gV
— Neera Tanden (@neeratanden) January 7, 2017
Hillary’s loss left Tanden teary-eyed, angry, and ready for revenge.
“I would do whatever Hillary needs always. I owe her a lot. And I’m a loyal soldier,” Tanden said.
So, Tanden began insisting that Russian intelligence agents had actually changed votes in the 2016 election.
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Tanden tweeted, “Russians did enough damage to affect more than 70k votes in 3 states.”
When people pointed out that everyone including Barack Obama denied her scenario, Tanden asked, “Why would hackers hack in unless they could change results?”
Why would hackers hack in unless they could change results? What's the point? https://t.co/n6tBLBNTjf
— Neera Tanden (@neeratanden) November 13, 2016
Then came the Steele dossier, which the Deep State cooked up after a lawyer named Marc Elias hired Fusion GPS to produce it on behalf of the Clinton campaign. It was funded by Hillary Clinton’s 2016 campaign as opposition research.
One of the top advisers to Hillary Clinton’s 2016 campaign was Neera Tanden. Doesn’t that mean Tanden has a conflict of interest every time she promoted the dossier?
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Tanden’s conspiracy-mongering went into overdrive after Buzzfeed published the dossier in January 2017. Tanden said the document “presents profoundly disturbing allegations” that “should shake every American to the core,” and she began a “Moscow Project” to get to the bottom of things.
The idea of Tanden as a spy-hunter made D.C. laugh. Glenn Greenwald—a rare left-wing journalist who is honest—describes Tanden as “a thoroughly mediocre and ordinary D.C. swamp creature from the perspective of both ideology and competence.” What sets Tanden apart is that she is “uniquely unhinged, venomous, corrupt and pathologically dishonest.”
Even after the chinks in the dossier became obvious, Tanden insisted the phony intelligence had “been mostly proven to be true” and “mostly established as right.”
When a left-wing website called The Intercept published the claim that Russia sent phishing emails to 100 local election workers, Tanden said that unsourced story proved her right—that Russia switched tens of thousands of votes in the 2016 election.
Tanden has been “disseminating over the course of several years some of the most unhinged, evidence-free and deranged conspiracy theories in which she deliberately deceived Democratic partisans into believing that Moscow’s dastardly hackers invaded the sanctity of the U.S. voting system to change Hillary’s votes to Trump’s,” wrote Greenwald.
And the Democratic Party drank it up. Two out of every three Democrats really believed that “Russia tampered with vote tallies in order to get Donald Trump elected President,” according to a 2018 poll.
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Tanden kept riding the Russian collusion horse until this October, tweeting that Robert “Mueller found Russian interference in the election. He also found Trump coordinated with Russia. These are facts.”
One day I hope to understand why you dissemble on behalf of Russia. Mueller found Russian interference in the election. He also found Trump coordinated with Russia. These are facts. As much as you’d like to gaslight us.
— Neera Tanden (@neeratanden) October 17, 2020
Actually, Mueller—or whoever wrote his report—said the investigation “did not establish that members of the Trump Campaign conspired or coordinated with the Russian government.” After reading that, Tanden wrote on Twitter that “Mueller has failed the country.”
No wonder Tanden deleted more than 1,000 tweets before being chosen to head up OMB.
After the Biden campaign tapped someone who spent the last four years pushing discredited conspiracies about the KGB hacking voting machines, it has the nerve to accuse anyone who doesn’t join in “unity” of wearing tin-foil hats.
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“Democratic leaders and their media allies love to patronizingly warn that conservative media outlets and their audiences are prone to spread and believe crazy conspiracy theories. They purport particular worry when such conspiracies are designed to undermine faith and trust in the U.S. electoral system itself,” wrote Greenwald. “Yet few have done more to destroy such confidence and faith than Neera Tanden.”
If she’s confirmed, imagine how such a dishonest figure could destroy our country.
Frank Holmes is a veteran journalist and an outspoken conservative that talks about the news that was in his weekly article, “On The Holmes Front.”