Politico reports that it was sent communications from inside the Trump campaign, including Sen. J.D. Vance’s (R-OH) 271-page vetting file, allegedly by an Iranian hacker.

The outlet said that it has been receiving anonymous emails containing internal communications from the Trump campaign. The campaign acknowledged the authenticity of the communications on Saturday, accusing “foreign sources hostile to the United States,” for leaking them.

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    I garauntee you that all this was leaked by one of the thousands of folks that thought they were going to be paid and weren’t.

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    Democrats also revealed that they were hacked. Iranians downloaded 2.3 terabytes of photos of Tim Walz hugging puppies. Secret documents as well. High School football plays and an old family tater-tot-hot-dish recipe.

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      I honestly don’t know which I’m more upset about… the play book is one thing… but Meemaw’s hot dish recipe is sacred dammit

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        Clearly the football plays would assist Putins military commanders more than they seem to be able to manage on their own 🥸

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      I seriously hope you guys don’t actually believe that a member of political class being pushed for position of power is a good person.

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        Yeah, we all know that high school teaching attracts the scummiest people. The “political class” (whatever that is) loves toiling away for no money and no status.

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    The real story is not that Trump had a novel length document of everything wrong with Vance (we know he’s basically what you get if Oogy Boogy was filled with empty vapes and paternal disappointment instead of just bugs). No, the real story is that Trump picked him anyway.

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      As others have noted Peter Thiel money might have influenced the choice. Given Vance’s relationship to Project 2025 (he wrote the foreword to Kevin Roberts’s book, remember[1]) it’s also possible he was a strongly pushed Heritage Foundation plant - put in place to ensure the flailing incoherent mess that is Trump’s mind is actually implementing Project 2025 properly when elected.


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    100% “Robert” is that persona trump does when he calls media and pretends he’s his own press agent. This is trump trying to ditch vance without just coming out and saying that he picked a couch fucker

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    foreign sources hostile to the United States

    Anybody who wants to stop Trump should at least be considered a temporary ally.

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      Amidst a sea of Russian bots and trolls shilling for Jill Stein at the hour of need an unlikely force stepped out to bat for democracy: Iran. Partly out of spite it seems - which given Trump is the target can only be described as poetic.

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    Good for Iran for getting some measure of revenge. It was atrocious of Trump to break the Iran nuclear deal. The US defines sanctions or economic warfare as “acts of war” which is unjustified towards Iran.

    Even though US intelligence services said Iran isn’t developing a nuclear weapon, these sanctions and the deal was done to prevent them from developing. This is fundamentally undemocratic behavior because without a modicum of prosperity a country isn’t likely to become more open or democratic. All to support Saudi Arabia (who are worse than Iran) and the exploitation of natural resources in the region.

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    There’s something delightful about the trump campaign complaining about foreign interference, which clearly should only be allowed by Russia.

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    Iran if you’re listening, we would love to see those RNC emails that were floating around.

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    Hey, anybody remember the scandal around Dubya’s Texas Air National Guard record? Somebody leaked a document to Dan Rather, and the Bush campaign even acknowledged that the information in it was 100% accurate. But it wasn’t the original document. Forensic analysis showed that it had been re-created in MS Word.

    Then, the Bushies made it all about the forgery, which cost Rather his job, and sent the damaging information about Bush down the memory hole.

    Remember that? I’m not saying that the DonOld’s campaign is pulling that trick, but IRAN IRAN IRAN!!!1!