The news that Ivanka Trump used her personal email to communicate about official government business isn’t getting the same outrage or media coverage that Hillary Clinton’s email scandal received. All this has many people using one word a lot today, hypocrisy.
CNN political analyst Bakari Sellers sums it up this way:
“If we’re going to have an FBI investigation for Hillary Clinton, we need an investigation for Ivanka Trump. The saying is what’s good for the goose is good for the gander.
I am tired of the hypocrisy. The American people are tired of the hypocrisy. Even we chant lock her up and investigate her from here until the cows come home or we just are going to say that we were hypocritical and Hillary Clinton’s matter was not that serious.”
https://twitter.com/CuomoPrimeTime/status/1064714250415951872
It doesn’t seem there are any Republicans calling for an investigation into Ivanka’s emails today. But members of the GOP party aren’t the only ones getting criticized today for burying this story. The New York Times is also getting its share of blowback for not placing emphasis on the news. It didn’t even make the cover of the paper today.
“In just 6 days, the NY Times ran as many cover stories about Hillary’s emails as they did about all the policy issues combined in the 69 days leading up to the election.”
Looking forward to relentless coverage of the Ivanka Trump scandal, since it's CLEARLY so disqualifying. pic.twitter.com/76eKttjHqT
— Brian Tyler Cohen (@briantylercohen) November 20, 2018
Weird: after The New York Times treated Clinton’s private email story like a national emergency, Ivanka’s private email story doesn’t even make front page news. pic.twitter.com/lgINrKAHhq
— Matt McDermott (@mattmfm) November 20, 2018
See if you can spot the difference between these two NYT headlines: pic.twitter.com/8mmJ95VBtX
— Kaili Joy Gray (@KailiJoy) November 20, 2018
Nate Silver, Editor-in-chief of FiveThirtyEight has an interesting take on this.
If you're one of those news organizations that treated Clinton's private emails like they were a national emergency, the solution isn't to treat Ivanka's private emails like they're also a national emergency—rather, it's to acknowledge that you kinda fucked up on Clinton.
— Nate Silver (@NateSilver538) November 20, 2018
Of course we aren’t holding our breath waiting for Ivanka’s father to respond, but he sure has had plenty to say about emails in the past. Perhaps Ivanka wasn’t listening when her father said using personal emails for government business was “bad judgement,” “total mess,” “a disaster,” a “BOMBSHELL,” and the list goes on and on.
The invention of email has proven to be a very bad thing for Crooked Hillary in that it has proven her to be both incompetent and a liar!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) July 26, 2016