GETTY Hillary Clinton aide Neera Tanden sparked a row with Wikileaks on twitter

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Neera Tanden, who was mentioned repeatedly in the controversial hacked John Podesta’s emails took on the WikiLeaks Task Force in a row that claims Mr Trump deliberately used the information to harm his Democratic opponent's chances of winning. Ms Tanden, who works as the president of Think Progress, an offshoot of US Think Tank the Center for American Progress (CAP), claims Mr Trump's repeated use of the information contained within the emails destroyed Mrs Clinton's chances of success. In a tweet with a link to an article published by her organisation, citing how many times Donald Trump mentioned WikiLeaks, she wrote: “Hard to argue that Wikileaks had no impact on the election when Trump used it multiple times a day to attack".

GETTY Donald Trump was accused of using the information leaked for political gain

Hard to argue that Wikileaks had no impact on the election when Trump used it multiple times a day to attack Neera Tanden

However almost as soon as she sent out the message, the Julian Assange supporting WikiLeaks Task Force, replied to her tweet with a rebuttal and a link to a poll which indicated the public believe Wikileaks over the US intelligence agencies. An online poll posted by US TV journalist John Harwood showed 83 percent of 84,115 voters trust WikiLeaks. Tanden then tackled the task force by asking: “Isn’t it your posture that WikiLeaks did affect the election? Wasn’t that the point of going only thru Election Day?”

GETTY Mr Assange is still holed up in the Ecuadorian embassy

Before the Wikileaks Task Force responded: “No. WikiLeaks has stated that it is impossible to tell, but that many millions read how the DNC acted unethically.” Responding to the jibe against the Democratic party Tanden then asked: “Why did you stop publishing on Election Day if affecting the election wasn’t your goal?” She then continued: "Podesta was hacked in March. Why wait to release until last month unless purpose was maximum impact on election?”

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