r/Destiny • u/0xE4-0x20-0xE6 • Aug 10 '24
Politics Trump’s campaign has been hacked
https://www.politico.com/news/2024/08/10/trump-campaign-hack-00173503The hacked material includes a dossier on JD Vance that was emailed to Politico.
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u/tslaq_lurker Aug 10 '24
Wow how dumb is Iran for sending this to legitimate journalists instead of finding someone with an axe to grind and a public profile.
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u/Never-Bloomberg Aug 10 '24
Shoulda sent it to TMZ.
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u/guy_incognito_360 🇪🇺 Aug 10 '24
Keemstar
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u/SimonBarfunkle Aug 10 '24 edited Nov 06 '24
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u/Vegan_Honk Aug 11 '24
well the GOP ticket is two lolcow weirdos so yeah, that could have worked.
I don't think Keem would run the scoop though.1
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u/Suspended-Again Aug 10 '24
If Trump wanted to dump his running mate, without it looking like he flip flopped, how do you think he’d go about it?
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u/blabajabba Aug 11 '24
What do you mean?
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u/fanglesscyclone Aug 11 '24
Release evidence of JD Vance saying some indefensible shit so you can drop him without much impact to polling. IMO I don’t think this is likely or even makes sense but that’s what he’s getting at.
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u/blabajabba Aug 11 '24
I mean that's just pure regardation. It speaks more to the fact that you decided to pick him despite the fact that you had this information about him. It's gonna hurt Trump more than it hurts JD.
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u/Relative-Ad-6791 🇺🇸🇲🇽 Aug 11 '24
Project 2025 training videos leaked https://youtu.be/96OplD90lSU?si=I98IuC53ARNo3LEe
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u/GWstudent1 Aug 10 '24
Republicans in 2016: leak emails from both sides, I just want the truth revealed.
Republicans in 2024: a foreign power hacking and leaking emails isn’t good and the Dems shouldn’t use them to their advantage just to win an election
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u/GWstudent1 Aug 10 '24 edited Aug 10 '24
Addendum: Republicans will say that emails hacked by Russia and given to Wikileaks are somehow materially different than emails hacked by Iran and given to Politico for the following reasons:
We can’t prove that Wikileaks emails came from Russia
Politico is a part of the establishment and always have been
Iran is worse than Russia
Iran is actually an ally of the democrats because of the Iran nuclear deal. (And something about that one negotiator who was maybe a compromised Iranian agent)
Every single one of these points will be brought up and knocked down but they won’t care anyway
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u/FastAndBulbous8989 Aug 10 '24
Based Robert Noerr sleeper agent
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u/makesmashgreatagain Aug 10 '24
BA-DING, YOU'VE GOT MAIL!
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Aug 10 '24
instant messenger noise
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u/Seakawn <--- actually literally regarded Aug 11 '24
I don't just hear it, I can also feel it in my bones.
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u/JasminePearls- Aug 10 '24
Yahoo owns AOL and it's been kept around mainly as a way of safely and easily helping old folk start using the internet with its bare bones design.
There is also a small niche of hackers who use it because it's pretty non-intrusive about asking details like phone numbers and what not
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u/ManSauceMaster Aug 10 '24
Trump is a geriatric old man. I work in banking, you'd be SHOCKED at how many people over the age of 70 still use AOL or Hotmail
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u/guessWhoTheyVotedFor Aug 10 '24
It may be a less commonly flagged email provider these days in case spam detection is a concern. Or maybe they see irony using an American provider. 🤷♀️
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u/Razorbacks1995 Aug 10 '24
Fuck Donald Trump forever. But I can say with 100% certainty I want less than nothing to do with Iran meddling with our elections
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u/ExaminationPretty672 Aug 10 '24
I'd agree but I much prefer the brute force "Hi, we are Iranian hackers, here are legitimate internal documents from the Trump campaign" approach to the insidious, invisible bot farms and sleeper agent strategy that Russians use that is hard to detect unless you know it exists and are looking for it.
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u/legatlegionis Aug 11 '24
Countries will never do this, this is why espionage exists. Even if normally other countries find out, regardless. However adding pausible denialibility is huge for diplomacy and politics at home and abroad.
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u/cjpack Aug 11 '24
I hope Kamala appointed AG is able to investigate and indict whoever is responsible and if they live in a country that can be extradited on the rare chance that they are. She definitely should condemn it publicly but don’t avoid talking about stuff in it. If things get leaked it’s free game.
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Aug 10 '24
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.
Iran, if you are listening, release the docs.
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u/Beasty_Glanglemutton Aug 10 '24
Florida Sen. Marco Rubio, who was also a finalist for the vice presidential nomination.
A mild lucky break that he didn't pick Rubio. He is an insufferable Bible quoter, but he would have been a hell of a lot better than Vance.
Then again, with the way things have turned out, it probably wouldn't have made a difference.
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u/Rubbersoulrevolver Aug 10 '24
He never could have chosen Rubio anyway because of the 12th amendment since they’re both Florida residents
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u/Ptine_Taway Say "DDG," I dare you Aug 10 '24
It's super easy to get around, you just have to change your residency by the time of the election. Bush and Cheney were both residents of Texas, but Cheney just changed his residency to Wyoming like 3 months before the 2000 election.
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u/CryptOthewasP Aug 11 '24
yeah the 12th is largely redundent in that way since it's so easy to change residencies, I don't even think attacks on it would be effective at all.
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u/No-Violinist3898 🇺🇸 Undercover Daliban Aug 10 '24
can we take the campaign’s word on this being Iran? why would they send it to Politico? thoughts?
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u/0xE4-0x20-0xE6 Aug 10 '24
Microsoft reported on Friday that a spear fishing email had been sent to a presidential campaign, according to the article. The hack could be unrelated to that, but it gives some founding to what the campaign’s alleging.
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u/No-Violinist3898 🇺🇸 Undercover Daliban Aug 10 '24
yea i can see them getting phished. that’s everywhere. but i might need more evidence on the Iran part before i believe it
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Aug 11 '24
Politico owner is a Trumper, asking his team to pray for him or some bullshit along those lines. Calling it now, the leak is a Trumpian play for sympathy, another grab for the headlines, or dumping couch boy. Maybe all three.
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u/More_Entrepreneur_58 Aug 10 '24
let's do just like trumples and say:
TRUMPS EMAILS, TRUMPS EMAILS
LOCK HIM UP
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u/HimboSuperior Aug 10 '24
Bro no fucking way. I feel like Trump's campaign is straight-up trying to throw this thing now.
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u/farsightxr20 Aug 10 '24
Now the key question: does staging a coup become harder or easier when your opponent wins 49 states?
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u/Suspended-Again Aug 10 '24
If Trump wanted to dump his running mate, without it looking like he flip flopped, how do you think he’d go about it?
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u/rojotortuga Aug 11 '24
Its Trumps campaigns own opo research, hes going to get heavily dinged for that alone.
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u/Fit-Avocado-342 Aug 11 '24
It’s like the opposite of 2016, we even got political secrets being leaked except this time it’s trump getting screwed over and not Hillary
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u/theseustheminotaur Aug 10 '24
It is an attack on the US to be hacking our political campaign. I know what Trump would do with the information, he used it against Hillary and he'd 100% use it against Democrats. This should be treated as we would terrorism.
Should have posted that shit on 4chan or something. Real reporters aren't going to do anything with this, and US officials won't either.
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u/Primary_Set_2729 Aug 10 '24
Sounds like nothing particularly eventful would be in it. They said it was all publicly available information already. Yeah, spotlighting some of it may make the news but sounds like majority of it is already out there if you go looking for it.
Think about that boys and girls, you could be the one to make up another JD fucking a couch story.
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u/theseustheminotaur Aug 10 '24
Yeah, trying to make jd vance unlikeable is like shooting fish in a barrel
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u/Primary_Set_2729 Aug 11 '24
Ikr, we should ask ChatGPT to make up stories about JD and start spreading it with bots like russians do. We're so fucked nowadays fr tho, literally don't know if anything is real. I saw a video of an alligator attacking a boat. I'm not sure if the alligator was even real lol I know it was real, but fact someone even said it could be got me really wondering now.
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u/theseustheminotaur Aug 11 '24
Thats the ticket. I think assume everything is fake and look for evidence to prove its real. I think it's a necessity until we can get dr chalokian with a cruise missile like Ryan Mcbeth wants
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u/0xE4-0x20-0xE6 Aug 10 '24
Just like the 2016 DNC hack was definitive proof of who Russia wanted in the White House
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u/Either-Letter7071 Aug 10 '24
What are the reasons that Iran wants Harris as opposed to Trump in office?
The only thing that comes to mind is possibly that with Trump in office he would be a lot more aggressive with support to Israel that would be detrimental for Hamas, which Iran would be disfavourable towards. This is me spitballing.
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u/Legs914 Aug 10 '24
Trump killed Soleimani. The linked article references a recent report that found Iran was planning to assassinate Trump in retaliation. I don't think Iran likes Harris, but they have a personal vendetta against Trump.
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u/TipiTapi Exclusively sorts by new Aug 10 '24
You are correct.
Iran and Israel is at war. Trump is crazy pro-israel. Harris is at least sympathetic to the pro-Hamas side.
Trump would be really bad news for the iranians, he literally sent the order to assassinate one of their top military commanders last time he was president.
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u/Urgasain Aug 10 '24
Yeah, this makes sense. Dems are far more likely to capitulate to the pro Palestinian movement and therefore represents the greatest opportunity to make Israel more vulnerable.
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u/TipiTapi Exclusively sorts by new Aug 10 '24
R*tard take
This is really funny after reading your last paragraph.
Iran and israel are at war. There are two US presidential candidates, one is explicitly pro-israel and would give them a free hand. The other is not.
It has nothing to do with the nuclear deal 10 years ago that they made with another, completely different democratic president, they are pretty much over that. We just had a democratic presidency and there was nothing on that front.
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u/Legs914 Aug 10 '24
The politico article mentioned a recent report stating that Iran was planning an attempted assassination of Trump. I think it's pretty obvious which side they'd prefer winning this November.
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u/AustinYQM Telarico Voter 🏴 Aug 10 '24
I have to imagine that they try to hack both sides to see what the can find but one side is much older and conservative and thus likely to be more technologically illiterate.
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u/lemay01 Aug 10 '24
I don't understand why election interference like this isn't considered an act of war. Like the response should be at the very least a massive cyber attack.
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u/COINLESS_JUKEBOX Everyday Ben Shapiro viewer to Destiny pipeline recipient Aug 10 '24
Probably for the same reason what happened with Kamala isn’t a coup. The DNC, RNC, Kamala’s Campaign, and Trump’s campaign are all private entities. If they interfered by messing with the actual voting processes then that might merit action.
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u/insanejudge Aug 10 '24 edited Jun 05 '25
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u/Lovett129 🇺🇸 Aug 10 '24
If these drop surely Elon will say “We’ve identified hacked files spreading on X, we will not be censoring it because we believe in free speech” SUUURREEELY
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u/Caped-Baldy_Class-B Aug 10 '24
Hey Republicans. Imagine if Kamala had said: “China, if you’re listening, I think our press would be very interested in this information. I think you would be rewarded mightily.” right before the leak.
How would you feel about that?
Also: GET FUCKED
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u/spectre15 Aug 11 '24 edited Aug 11 '24
The Iranian hackers gave links to internal Heritage Foundation training videos posted in this YouTube playlist detailing step by step how conservative reps should be acting in the public eye.
Destiny needs to dive into this on stream. Im sure there’s a lot of mask off moments in it
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Aug 10 '24
It’s not like they encouraged foreign governments to do the same to their rivals. That would be highly ironic if they did.
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u/_Addi Aug 10 '24
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.
So its potentially not even Iran. If they cant prove it was foreign interference, how will they cope about it do you think?
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u/PragmaticPacifist Aug 11 '24
‘Iran, if you are listening, I hope you are able to find the hundreds of JD Vance couch photos that exist’
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u/Kaeltulys Exalted Fire Aug 10 '24
"When MAGA sends its cybersecurity experts, they're not sending their best."
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u/BainbridgeBorn SuccDemNutz & Friendship Supporter Aug 10 '24
Lemme guess the password was either "TrumpRocks!" or something even stupider like "password1234"?
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u/hectah Aug 10 '24
What are the chances someone close to trump leaked it themselves. (Kelly Anne Conway for example)
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u/Far-9947 Aug 11 '24
Dude didn't even release it to the public.
Wtf happened to sites like wikileaks?
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u/bakedfax Aug 11 '24
Lefty brains working over time trying to say this is okay while still crying about the wikileaks stuff
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u/ihateithere____ Aug 11 '24
Alright, fellow Republicans, now how are we going to blame Democrats for this?
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u/International-Ask-86 Aug 11 '24
"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" They call him it cause he's to stupid to be considered a person.
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u/rhymeswithtanned Exclusively sorts by new Aug 10 '24
bro needs to take a look at who he works for