US Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump’s campaign team said Saturday that some of its international communications had been hacked by those “hostile” to the United States.
“These documents were obtained illegally from foreign sources hostile to the United States, intended to interfere with the 2024 election and sow chaos throughout our democratic process,” Trump campaign spokesperson Steven Cheung said in a statement.
Cheung was responding to revelations by the Politico news outlet that it had begun receiving emails from an anonymous account containing documents from within the Republican Party candidate’s campaign operation.
Trump’s campaign provided no specific evidence of Iran’s involvement but did imply that Tehran was responsible by mentioning a report by Microsoft researchers that was published this week.
The report said Iran government-tied hackers tried breaking into the account of a “high-ranking official” on the US presidential campaign in June.
That report did not provide further details on the official’s identity.
But when Trump told Russia to go ahead and hack the Clinton campaign and release the data, and like three days later, Russia did exactly that, that was fine.
In reality his campaign was working directly with Russian agents to get dirt on Clinton campaign. This was not just wishful thinking on Donny’s part. It was a willful malice.
Yup, fuck the Trump campaign. Glad it’s finally happening to them and they can get a taste of their own medicine.
I think it was the guy who played “My Heart Will Go On” by Celine Dion at his last rally.
“Confirms security breech” = “we’re fucking morons and we deliberately clicked a pop up scam that said ‘free pictures of hulk Hogan with his shirt off’ as long as you tell us your mother’s maiden name and your first dogs name”
Why would a foreign adversary want to stop Trump? This would be a dream come true for them.
Anyone know what docs have been published? I’m semi-tempted to load Google news, but I have a self-imposed blackout on doing so for my own mental health. I don’t need to get massively depressed between now and November.
I don’t know about published, but the article says that Politico received internal email communications and the campaign’s vetting dossier for Vance. So probably nothing earth-shattering.
