Trump's campaign was hacked, but by whom?
Why would the Iranians want to hack Donald Trump's campaign? What could they possibly get out of it? Perhaps it wasn't the Iranians at all?
We are deep into the midst of the silly season, and the silliness never ends. Trump’s campaign has said that they were hacked, and fingers are now being pointed at Iran:
Former President Donald Trump's campaign has said that some of their communications had been hacked.
The campaign blamed 'foreign sources hostile to the United States' and cited a Microsoft report on Friday that Iranian hackers attempted to hack a high-ranking official of a presidential campaign.
Politico reported that they had started receiving emails from an anonymous account with documents from inside Trump’s operation.
Trump campaign spokesperson Steven Cheung told the outlet that they didn't have further information relating to the suggestion that they were targeted by Iran.
He said: '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.
'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.'
I’m forced to ask the obvious question here: What would Iran get out of hacking Trump’s campaign? Why would they spend five minutes of their time hacking it?
The information about JD Vance is public, and why would Iran care if he criticized Trump in the past? What on earth would Iran get out of it? Do any of you believe that Iran gives two shits about JD Vance?
The story continues:
Researchers for Microsoft disclosed on Thursday they found multiple Iranian groups peddling polarizing messages and inflammatory posts about controversial politically-divisive issues.
According to Microsoft's newest threat intelligence report, cybercriminals have been using covert news sites that cater to voter groups on opposing ends of the political spectrum to further alienate both sides.
Evidence discovered by the company suggests that these sites have been using AI-enabled services to plagiarize some of their content from US publications.
I call total bullshit on Microsoft’s report. No other country on this planet needs to use AI or anything else to “alienate” voters from each other. Do you know who has been doing that for many years now? The oligarchs that own and control the United States and the US government itself, along with the US regime’s media, are the primary sources for the partisan vitriol that flows online.
Microsoft, of course, has deep connections to the US government, including its intelligence agencies. Microsoft recently provided a generative AI model to the US government that is not connected to the Internet, so it can be used for classified purposes. So you will excuse me if I don’t take Microsoft’s “report” seriously. 🙄
Also, in case you haven’t noticed, Iran has become the de facto boogeyman being pushed by the regime. They have tried to smear Iran with the assassination attempt on Trump. Every time something bad happens, Iran is somehow involved in it. Before Iran, it was Russia that was the regime’s boogeyman. But now that the conflict in Ukraine is winding down, Iran has taken Russia’s place and is being blamed for everything under the sun.
So if Iran didn’t hack Trump, then who did? Gee, I don’t know. Let me think about it for a moment. Could it be…THE DEEP STATE? Yeah, maybe the people who tried to murder Trump were the ones who hacked his campaign and then blamed Iran for it. It seems to me that the Deep State is the likeliest suspect here, not Iran.
Hacking Trump to find potentially damaging information, then releasing it to cause chaos in the electorate, is EXACTLY the kind of crap the Deep State would pull. They stole the 2020 election, caused a fake pandemic, forced Russia to invade Ukraine, and thus caused a proxy war that has resulted in the deaths of hundreds of thousands of Ukrainians as well as Russians, and they are funneling weapons and money to the Israelis to continue the Gaza Holocaust. Do you think they would hesitate to hack Trump’s campaign?
Trump’s campaign spokesman had me rolling my eyes with this stupid remark:
“The Iranians know that President Trump will stop their reign of terror just like he did in his first four years in the White House,” he added.
Cheung declined to say if there was further information to substantiate Iran’s involvement.
He noted that the hack came “after recent reports of an Iranian plot to assassinate President Trump around the same time as the Butler, PA tragedy.” Trump was wounded July 13 in an assassination attempt during a rally in the western Pennsylvania town.
What “reign of terror” is he referring to? Hey Cheung, take a look at Gaza if you want to see what a reign of terror really looks like, you moron. 🙄
Anyway, I’m not buying this bullshit that the Iranian government would take five seconds of its time to hack Trump or Kamala the Idiot. Neither of their campaigns has information that would be of any real value to Iran in a geopolitical sense. What would Iran get from hacking Kamala? Discovering what kind of hair spray or mascara she uses?
Beware of the “Iran is the Devil!” propaganda being pushed by the regime. It’s part of the neocon preparation for a war with Iran. They want you filled with hatred anytime Iran is mentioned to manufacture consent for yet another endless war.
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Option D: nobody hacked Trump. Somebody in his campaign team leaked the emails.
Just like the DNC emails were leaked by an insider and it was used as material to prop up Russia Russia Russia.
The new eternal enemy is Iran. Because the proxy war with Russia isn't going so well and we need to shift focus. And because Bibi has had a bubug up his bubutt about Iran for 40 f'ing years.
Therefore everything that happens is going to be blamed on... Iran. In hopes of drumming up popular enthusiasm for a war with Iran.
The fact that Trump is being staged as the victim of Iranian "hacking", and he's doing his best imitation of John McCain over it, is extremely troubling.
Looks to me like Trump is Their Guy now.
edit: *in b4 'you're an Iranian bot!'
As soon as I read the first paragraph for two, but Iran responsible for this hacking has bullshit written all over it. We all know who the guilty party was.