1/ Trump’s presidential campaign was hacked. The scope of the information obtained is unclear. On July 22, Politico started receiving emails from an anonymous sender, who called himself Robert and used an AOL email account, offering internal communications from a senior Trump campaign official, including a copy of the 271-page vetting document related to JD Vance. Two people familiar with the document confirmed it was authentic. The campaign blamed “foreign sources hostile to the United States,” citing last week’s Microsoft report that Iranian hackers “sent a spear phishing email in June to a high-ranking official on a presidential campaign.” Microsoft, however, didn’t publicly identify the campaign or confirm whether it believed the hack had been successful. Separately, reports emerged last month that the U.S. intelligence community had obtained evidence suggesting Iran was planning to assassinate Trump in retaliation for his decision to order the airstrike that killed Iranian military officer Qassem Soleimani in 2020. There’s no indication that Thomas Matthew Crooks was connected to the plot. (Politico / Washington Post / Axios / CNN / Associated Press / NPR / NBC News / Wall Street Journal / Bloomberg / CNBC)
This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://whatthefuckjusthappenedtoday.com/2024/08/12/day-1301/