Trump campaign confirms security breach, blames Iran
Trump campaign confirms security breach, blames Iran
Politico said it had received anonymous emails from inside Donald Trump's campaign operation. The Republican presidential nominee's team says its communications were hacked and inferred that Iran was responsible.
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.
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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.
the campaign’s vetting dossier for Vance
Wouldn't this kinda read like a list of all the things about Vance they'd prefer were not part of the public discourse?
No, in the actual politico article (I don't know why people keep posting other sources) it says everything in the documents was already publicly available information. Just an organized collection of it all
Yeah probably something about Vance has a fetish for furniture or the like.
What I've read so far indicates that Politico has received the documents, but hasn't published them directly yet.