The Trump campaign just confirmed that their internal communications has been hacked.
Reports are saying it was Iran. (Yes, they’re blaming IRAN again…)
The stolen documents included a lengthy dossier on President Trump’s vice president pick, JD Vance, and were sent to Politico.
TRUMP CAMPAIGN HACKED: IRANIAN INVOLVEMENT SUSPECTED
Trump’s campaign confirmed that internal communications were hacked, with documents sent anonymously to POLITICO.
The campaign suspects Iranian hackers, citing a Microsoft report detailing a June spear-phishing attack on a… https://t.co/I6P8Uu04ar pic.twitter.com/Qjx6nOkhay
— Mario Nawfal (@MarioNawfal) August 10, 2024
BREAKING: TRUMP’S CAMPAIGN CONFIRMS HACKING INCIDENT
Former President Donald Trump’s campaign has confirmed that internal communications were hacked, allegedly by “foreign sources hostile to the U.S.”
This comes after a Microsoft report revealed Iranian hackers targeted a… pic.twitter.com/upoiCMGbyk
— JAKE (@JakeGagain) August 10, 2024
#BREAKING: The Trump Campaign has been HACKED
A hacker used a phishing link to break into a high-ranking official’s email, then steal internal documents and communications, which they’ve begun leaking to Politico.
The campaign blamed “foreign sources hostile to the United… pic.twitter.com/Pjtu01ptMp
— Nick Sortor (@nicksortor) August 10, 2024
Is anyone else having Deja Vu?..
Are we expected to believe this all just “coincidental?”
So we are to believe that the Trump was almost assassinated, his campaign was hacked, and his plane had to make an emergency landing all in the course of 27 days and think that all 3 of these things just happened to occur in the same month randomly?
Donald Trump’s life is at…
— Laura Loomer (@LauraLoomer) August 10, 2024
Trump was almost assassinated.
Trump ‘s jet had to make an emergency.
Trump ‘s campaign is now hacked.
DEEP STATE TRYING ANYTHING THEY CAN!
— KEEM
(@KEEMSTAR) August 10, 2024
The documents were leaked to Politico.
Here’s what they had to say about it:
On July 22, POLITICO began receiving emails from an anonymous account. Over the course of the past few weeks, the person — who used an AOL email account and identified themselves only as “Robert” — relayed what appeared to be internal communications from a senior Trump campaign official. A research dossier the campaign had apparently done on Trump’s running mate, Ohio Sen. JD Vance, which was dated Feb. 23, was included in the documents. The documents are authentic, according to two people familiar with them and granted anonymity to describe internal communications. One of the people described the dossier as a preliminary version of Vance’s vetting file.
The research dossier was a 271-page document based on publicly available information about Vance’s past record and statements, with some — such as his past criticisms of Trump — identified in the document as “POTENTIAL VULNERABILITIES.” The person also sent part of a research document about Florida Sen. Marco Rubio, who was also a finalist for the vice presidential nomination.
The person said they had a “variety of documents from [Trump’s] legal and court documents to internal campaign discussions.”
Asked how they obtained the documents, the person responded: “I suggest you don’t be curious about where I got them from. Any answer to this question, will compromise me and also legally restricts you from publishing them.”
The scope of the information obtained by the hacker is unclear. But it represents a major security breach for Trump’s campaign.
Last month, reports emerged of the U.S. intelligence community receiving increasing evidence suggesting Iran was working on plots to kill Trump in retaliation for his decision to order the assassination of Iranian military officer Qassem Soleimani in 2020. There is no indication that the shooter who targeted Trump at a rally last month was connected to the plot.
In his statement Saturday, Cheung pointed to those reports, saying, “The Iranians know that President Trump will stop their reign of terror just like he did in his first four years in the White House.”
Iranian government officials could not immediately be reached for comment.
Fox News has more information:
Former President Trump’s campaign confirmed to Fox News on Saturday that some of its internal communications were hacked.
Liberal media outlet Politico had reached out to the campaign after the news outlet started receiving internal Trump documents.
“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,” said Steven Cheung, communications director for the Trump campaign.
“On Friday, a new report from Microsoft found that Iranian hackers broke into the account of a ‘high ranking official’ on the U.S. presidential campaign in June 2024, which coincides with the close timing of President Trump’s selection of a Vice Presidential nominee,” he added.
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