The Trump campaign has confirmed that some of their internal communications have been hacked. Politico also reported that they’ve been sent internal memos from an anonymous account that details some of the Trump campaign’s internal operations.
Trump campaign spokesperson, Steven Cheung, declined to say if they had further information substantiating the campaigns’ suggestion that it was targeted by Iran.
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.”
According to Washington Examiner:
Former President Donald Trump’s campaign has reported it has been hacked, and Politico confirmed confidential memos from the campaign were sent to them.
“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 to the Washington Examiner.
Cheung did not provide confirmation to Politico for how he knew the hackers were from Iran.
The news outlet reported they received documents from a person who called themselves only “Robert” from an AOL email account, and the records included research on Sens. J.D. Vance (R-OH), and Marco Rubio (R-FL).
After the assassination attempt on Trump, reports emerged that there had been unrelated Iranian plots to kill the former president. In his statement to the outlet, Cheung referred to those reports as he accused Iran of this hacking.
Politico described in an article how they came into possession of the information and hinted at some of the data in 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.”
This is a breaking story and will be updated when more is known.
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Have the London chief of police know, he can arrest anyone anywhere for anything he deems misinformation.
No better endorsement of the Trump candidacy than having a terrorist nation like Iran hack your campaign and try to disrupt and upend your campaign.
Well, Politico is one of the outlets the FBI/DOJ uses to get their messaging out. So the FBI/DOJ has hacked Trump already in addition to setting up an assassination attempt. I guess we should look out for what they are going to do next to get rid of him.
It’s more likely that American intelligence hacked the campaign to plan another assassination attempt.
I was thinking the same thing. Our tax dollars at work to blame a foreign nation for our own handiwork.
I feel he same way and it’s disturbing to think that our own agencies would do this in the America I knew.
No it’s not IRAN.
DEM/RINOs, along with their bosses ISR/NWO with the CIA doing the dirty work.
ISR/NWO wants REPS to start a war vs. Iran, now that the REPs have won the election.
Absolutely the current regime will go to any lengths not ruin America and rightful winner of’20 and to not let him in the White House no matter what they have to do. Corrupt SOBs all.
He hacked himself and released the e-mails to give himself another 5 point bump in the poles! Or the US intelligence services are that dumb… which would explain why the US is failing in all arenas, foreign and domestic.
The “Plumbers” are still with us. They use computers now.
I thought Obama was scared of them, on a personal level, to pay them all that secret money Now I realize that he paid them to do his dirty work for him. And now, they want to keep that gravy train rolling. They know they ain’t getting it from Trump. Got more for them Barrack Hussein Obama, you true American, you, and the rest of your ilk?
nah. cia
Well, the FBI tapped Trump’s phone in 2016, so they wouldn’t hack Trumps memos? Sure they would. And when the FBI went thru Mar-a-Lago looking for “classified material”, unaccompanied by any Trump aide or person, how many bugs do you suppose they planted then? If you are guessing into the low double-digits, you are most likely low.
It’s the democRAT way.
They committed a felony to steal “publically available information?” Brilliant!
Curtesy of the F B I no doubt!
Iran wants me to vote for the Kamal. Because I love America and Iran so much, that’s what I’ll do. (When is Valentines Day on the Chinese calendar?)
Open systems (windows, windows servers, handheld, apple’s, tablets) can never be trusted unless you spend a lot of money on firewalls, encryption, stay up on ssl and tls versions, vet access, etc., and even then there could be problems as seen with crowdstrike.
I would do the following as the poor man’s solution: Thinking about windows based because that’s what I use and don’t know about other platforms capabilities as much.
I work on large propriety systems like AS400 which have superior security and do not run .exe’s, OS upgrades are strictly tested and controlled.
1) Create checkpoints you can restore from if you get the “blue screen of death” or your pc looks like its infected, bouncing cursor movement, etc., and can hold down an f key like f8 on boot-up to restore from a checkpoint.
2) Send emails encrypted (you can do this in outlook, not sure about others). I believe that function is free with outlook but not positive.
3) Clean out your windows/temp folder weekly. It contains left behind junk.
4) Click start, type cleanup and perform clean up weekly, click on system files too if you want or need to save space.
5) Have a DR plan, plan B.
I agree. I think it is our own government. They are willing to do anything to stop President Trump from WH. Look at all they have done to him? Who attacks their opponents? If your opponent actually lost the election then why would you attack him like they have? Why would you do a setup on J6 with President Trump supporters if you actually won an election? Why would you have a man who couldn’t even come out of his basement to run against President Trump in 2020? Why would you need to take votes from President Trump and give to basement boy on live TV if you were actually winning an election? Why would you have to kick republicans out of ballot counting if you actually won an election? Why would you call riots destroying communities peaceful while calling J6 an insurrection? Why are people who committed mostly minor chargers, no deadly weapons, escorted into capital by police arrested and placed in prison with no rights what so ever? On the other side you had BLM and antifa committing arson, vandalism, assault, theft, destruction of businesses, destruction of police property, assault on police, destruction of government/state/local property by destroying monuments, burning the American flag, disorderly conduct and murder are walking around free to do it again? Think about all the people who have lied to us for years just to put fear in us for tyranny? Why would you allow a so called dr. To infect us with a virus upon the world then force you to have vaccines? My body my choice for abortion? You can’t have a funeral for loved ones in lockdown, yet they hold a four day funeral for a criminal? A Governor allows riots for three days and said it’s ok you will soon come around to our ideas of communist ideas. Why would you be afraid of truth instead lie about everything? Why would you attack the people who have work hard all their lives so you can have your elite position? Think people is all I ask. Why was a race card played when most Americans aren’t looking at colors just characters?