Trump Campaign hacked; information provided to Politico
The Trump campaign reported that it had been hacked. A hacker obtained some documents from the campaign, and then turned them over to Politico. When the Politico contact tried to get more information about the circumstances surrounding the obtaining of the documents, the hacker refused to provide more details. The hacker did not want to be compromised and if Politico’s question was answered, the latter would not be able to publish the documents.
From Politico:
The campaign blamed “foreign sources hostile to the United States,” citing a Microsoft report on Friday that Iranian hackers “sent a spear phishing email in June to a high-ranking official on a presidential campaign.” Microsoft did not identify the campaign targeted by the email and declined to comment Saturday. POLITICO has not independently verified the identity of the hacker or their motivation, and a Trump campaign spokesperson, Steven Cheung, declined to say if they had further information substantiating the campaigns’ suggestion that it was targeted by Iran.
“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,” Cheung said. “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.”
Cheung declined to say whether the campaign had been in contact with Microsoft or law enforcement about the breach, saying it would not discuss such conversations.
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.
Additional Reading:
Isenstadt, A. (2024, August 10). We received internal Trump documents from ‘Robert.’ The campaign just confirmed it was hacked. Politico. Link.
Category: 2024 Election, Donald Trump, Iran
Thank God the FBI is right on it. They will spend the next four years doing an exhaustive investigation at break neck speed, with phony leaks everywhere, about Iranian collusion with the Democrats to interfere in the election.
Hacker phot o revealed…
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we don’t need foreign hackers to release confidential information on Donald Trump, plenty of “civil servants” have been accessing his records and releasing them to the hostile press.
Like the BIG SCANDAL they’re about to unleash on Donald Trump, the one alleging that HE HIMSELF tore the tag off of a new mattress 23 years go!
Breaking News!
Trump farted!
Not just any mattress, but 1 of his own brand. The horrors.
“BUTbutbut, it was a uhhm, you-know, MOSTLY PEACEFUL hack, and, uhhm, the Government will look at it, uhhm, so they can dismiss it, and, uhhm, Orange Man bad, you-know, uhhm, mean tweets, mmmmkay?”
So say the no-nuts D-rat minions.
Do ya think hillary might be involved somehow??
Never taunt a housecat. Not only are they little serial killers but they have long memories.
The lack of Iranian response to the killing of Ismail Heyniah has been chilling. I have to wonder what the current administration offered them?
Obviously Netanyahu came to DC before the attack to get the green light. The US was fully tied in. I imagine it was something similar to Obama’s; “I have more flexibility after the election”; when he was colluding with Russia back in 2012. So I can’t help but wonder what the Iranians think they got?
Maybe they will discover that Phil Monkress (CEO of All-Points Logistics) is a turd.
Green Thumb,
Just curious….
IF I pass through Florida this fall,
and decide to stop by APL,
with a bunch of prints (including VG and this old company bio)
for the lobby secretary / screener,
and ask to speak to the mighty Phony Navy SEAL Phil…..
What can I expect?
https://coab.us/987/Bruce-Bole-Commissioner-Seat-2
Wow in 2017 Trump was boasting about how Dumb the Democrats were for being hacked. This whole affair stinks
and feels like someone is paying the favor back
Just because X country tries to interfere in an election to Y’s benefit, it probably means they consider Y the weakest candidate and does not mean Y knew anything about it.
Absolutely.
Of course Y very well could have known what X was doing, collaborated with them, steered them through to the correct source to leak the information and even thrown a few suggestions in. Nothing in the rules says that can’t happen either.
Sounds like someone clicked on a sketchy link when they should’na’otta.
It’s those damn Nigerian princes.
Sooo…have Trump’s staff leaned their lesson on buying outdated, Red Hatted Soft Wear from some dood standing at the off ramp near Bethesda, Maryland? The mailbox door will be the next thing to come up missing.
And now in my best Gomer Pyle face; “Surprise! Surprise!”
https://nypost.com/2024/08/11/us-news/biden-specifically-names-nancy-pelosi-in-first-interview-about-why-he-dropped-out-of-presidential-race/
Must be a pretty boring vetting file. If there was anything of consequence in there, “unnamed administration officials” would have already blasted it out to the leftist media.
This could also be Trumps way of finding moles in his organization. He puts A in charge if this, B in charge of that and C in charge of the other. He let’s the news break he was hacked, the media gets their Trump is an asshole moment, Trump claims he was hacked to back up their story, and searches out who in A, B or C department let it out.
You’re correct tho, it must be a very boring info dump, otherwise it would lead to near 24/7 coverage if there was anything to it.