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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.”

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[-] riskable@programming.dev 109 points 1 month ago

Next set of headlines: Hacked Trump documents reveal what everyone already knew and his supporters don't care anyway.

[-] Moops@fedia.io 96 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

“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.

They don't seem to mind that when it's Russia doing it. Weird.

[-] Lemminary@lemmy.world 30 points 1 month ago

How dare you call Russia hostile when it's been nothing but buddy-buddy with the Trumps.

[-] FenrirIII@lemmy.world 29 points 1 month ago
[-] MrVilliam@lemmy.world 30 points 1 month ago

What a terrible day to have eyes.

[-] peopleproblems@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago

Just wait for my "friend" @mad_asshatter to show up.

[-] Omgboom@lemmy.zip 48 points 1 month ago

271 pages and they were blind sided by him fucking a couch

[-] SGG@lemmy.world 17 points 1 month ago

Well to be fair they probably mistook hetero-sectional as heterosexual

[-] troybot@midwest.social 43 points 1 month ago

Let me take a guess... Trump is still using "maga2020" for the password for his email like he did when his Twitter account was compromised.

[-] MrVilliam@lemmy.world 26 points 1 month ago

No, that would be stupid. He changed the password to maga2024 like a smart person.

[-] Corkyskog@sh.itjust.works 15 points 1 month ago

I heard Baron helped, and it's actually maga2O24!

[-] SkybreakerEngineer@lemmy.world 26 points 1 month ago

Russia, if you're listening...

[-] rusticus@lemm.ee 22 points 1 month ago

The narrative shouldn’t be what’s in it but more that his campaign has no business being near the White House when he is incompetent at preventing bring hacked.

[-] BossDj@lemm.ee 7 points 1 month ago

A senior official of the campaign got phished. Fucking hell, man

[-] rusticus@lemm.ee 1 points 1 month ago

I think it’s bullshit. Nothing released was shocking honestly. It’s part of their current “throw shit against the wall and see what sticks” strategery.

[-] NegativeInf@lemmy.world 18 points 1 month ago
[-] protist@mander.xyz 18 points 1 month ago

So Politico's going to release all this, right?

...right?

[-] collapse_already@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 month ago

I am just assuming their diligence wasn't very and failed to uncover couch fucking dolphin porn addict.

[-] Myxomatosis@lemmy.world 14 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Sucks when it happens to you. Things are getting worse and worse for Donnie and his ilk. I’m enjoying every minute of it.

[-] kmartburrito@lemmy.world 9 points 1 month ago

You love to see it, especially later in the summer

[-] ganksy@lemmy.world 11 points 1 month ago

I don't doubt that hackers could infiltrate his campaign. I don't doubt that Iran wants to settle a score with trump. Something always smells with these buttholes though.

[-] vanontom@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

Why would any rational person believe a word T**** or his campaign says. Highly skeptical it was done by Iran. The docs don't even seem very interesting, let alone damaging.

[-] andrewth09@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago

Is the 271 page document available anywhere?

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