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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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[-] aramis87@fedia.io 116 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

But when Trump told Russia to go ahead and hack the Clinton campaign and release the data, and like three days later, Russia did exactly that, that was fine.

[-] WanderingVentra@lemm.ee 33 points 1 month ago

Yup, fuck the Trump campaign. Glad it's finally happening to them and they can get a taste of their own medicine.

[-] LEDZeppelin@lemmy.world 29 points 1 month ago

In reality his campaign was working directly with Russian agents to get dirt on Clinton campaign. This was not just wishful thinking on Donny’s part. It was a willful malice.

[-] MummifiedClient5000@feddit.dk 9 points 1 month ago

Eventually we are going to learn that at the time trump said "russia, if you're listening..." he already knew what was going to happen.

[-] AmidFuror@fedia.io 78 points 1 month ago

"Iran, if you're listening, release the n-word tapes!"

[-] tigeruppercut@lemmy.zip 52 points 1 month ago

When you're Iran, they just let you do it. You can just grab em by the email.

[-] riskable@programming.dev 20 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

They have the best emails. Like MIT. Emm Eye Tee. Ya know, I have a thing with MIT. Genius. Smart people. So I said to them, "what do you think of Iran having my emails?" And they said, "are you sure it's Iran? it's probably the Democrats." They're like sharks, Democrats! Sharks swarming this beautiful boat with a battery. Which, if you ask me is a very dangerous thing, the battery. Because what if it electrocutes you? I'll take the sharks over electrocution any day. Ding! Ding! Ding! Ding! We have a winner, folks. Just like that nasty, nasty woman. I bet she feeds the sharks, Nancy Pelosi. AND HER HUSBAND! The leader of the transgenders. They want to take it all away. Take it all away. They want to give your job to transgendered immigrants. Let me tell you. The late great Hannibal Lecter would know what to do.

[-] Aku@lemm.ee 9 points 1 month ago

I wish I could upvote this twice

[-] some_guy 44 points 1 month ago

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.

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

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?

[-] BossDj@lemm.ee 6 points 1 month ago

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

[-] Erasmus@lemmy.world 7 points 1 month ago

Yeah probably something about Vance has a fetish for furniture or the like.

[-] kn33@lemmy.world 13 points 1 month ago

What I've read so far indicates that Politico has received the documents, but hasn't published them directly yet.

[-] tiefling@lemmy.blahaj.zone 41 points 1 month ago

You got phished. Maybe you should've had better cybersecurity, fuckers.

[-] TransplantedSconie@lemm.ee 31 points 1 month ago

He doesn't pay people. It's all on him.

[-] pastabatman@lemmy.world 28 points 1 month ago

The hackers sent the documents to Politico from an AOL.com email address with the name "Robert" lmao

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

Should have signed it Bobby Jr.

[-] Waldowal@lemmy.world 20 points 1 month ago

I think they leaked this themselves:

  • Makes it look like they knew how much Vance sucks going into it, so their decision looks less stupid
  • Tries to re-create a boogeyman in Iran for everyone to be scared of
  • Doesn't actually leak anything that damning (i.e.: "See, no more pussy grabbing!")
[-] the_crotch@sh.itjust.works 11 points 1 month ago

Makes it look like they knew how much Vance sucks going into it, so their decision looks less stupid

Doesn't that make their decision look more stupid?

[-] TBi@lemmy.world 7 points 1 month ago

Maybe they are too stupid to realise that?

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

"Confirms security breech" = "we're fucking morons and we deliberately clicked a pop up scam that said 'free pictures of hulk Hogan with his shirt off' as long as you tell us your mother's maiden name and your first dogs name"

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

Given how much IQ is talked about, I was thinking it was a free IQ test.

It's like 10,000 spoons when all you need if a knife.

[-] cynthorpe@discuss.online 16 points 1 month ago

Is this the new Republicans scapegoat? Iran?

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

New? Hardly. Republicans have been using Iran as a scapegoat for decades. I can remember Bush admin being filled with Iran hawks and I wouldn't be surprised to see it go back to Reagan or further still

[-] TransplantedSconie@lemm.ee 15 points 1 month ago

I think it was the guy who played "My Heart Will Go On" by Celine Dion at his last rally.

[-] scaredoftrumpwinning@lemmy.world 15 points 1 month ago

Why would a foreign adversary want to stop Trump? This would be a dream come true for them.

[-] Tire@lemmy.ml 9 points 1 month ago

Iran doesn’t want the US to collapse, they want rational actors in the White House. They had a stable plan under Obama then Trump came along and started complaining about random “bad deals” and scrapped the agreements.

[-] Yeldarb12@toast.ooo 8 points 1 month ago

Trump blew up one of Irans top military guys while president.

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

They see how inconpetent the campaing is and are just trying to help.

[-] LEDZeppelin@lemmy.world 15 points 1 month ago

He will use this as an excuse to dump Vance

[-] OlinOfTheHillPeople@lemmy.world 5 points 1 month ago

Who would be the replacement?

[-] rusticus@lemm.ee 24 points 1 month ago

Hannibal Lector

[-] cosmicrookie@lemmy.world 13 points 1 month ago

Hulk Hogan or Chuck Norris

[-] 418_im_a_teapot@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 month ago

Hey, don’t forget Clint Eastwood and his empty chair.

[-] MegaUltraChicken@lemmy.world 7 points 1 month ago

Now is when you get Marco Rubio to move out of Florida, and then still don't pick him.

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

Serious answer? Elise Stefanik

Not so serious answer? Marge Green

Why does he want to dump Vance?

[-] auzy@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

He's getting bad press at the moment and Trump probably thinks that's why he's losing

He basically needs a paperweight who is a VP who gets no attention

The person said they had a “variety of documents from [Trump’s] legal and court documents to internal campaign discussions.”

[-] fox2263@lemmy.world 6 points 1 month ago

Queue Mike Pillow talking about cyber and the machines

[-] elrik@lemmy.world 5 points 1 month ago

My assumption is Trump and his top advisors all have regular and friendly dealings with foreign adversaries.

So I expect this was less of a security breach and more of an accidental disclosure along with other intentionally disclosed information. Something along the lines of an assistant was asked to email the candidate dossiers and oppo research, and they zipped up the entire folder sitting on their desktop named "candidates".

[-] SlippiHUD@lemmy.world 5 points 1 month ago

Something something Barrel

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

Hack them to itty bitty bits

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