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.
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.
Iranian Phisher weeks ago: “Wow, this guy fucked a couch…”
They got it through a fucking phishing email
HAHAHAHAHA
Vance clicked on a link for hot CILFs in his area.
JD Vance pays for pictures of dirty couches when craigslist exists smh
OnlyCushions
All of JD Vance’s former high school classmates are rethinking Vance’s high school locker room bragging about “More cushion for the pushin’”.
OnlyDivans
OnlyPouffes
OnlyFutons.
Siemens furniture.
CILF omg that is delicioso
Wait, just to be clear, does the C stand for Couches or Cetaceans?
yes
This is what most hacking is.
Social engineering is the greatest skill a hacker can have
Nope. It’s creating real looking templates.
But still you think with how much control they want over other people, you’d think that no one would even have a chance at social engineering. Some gestapo-style blacklist intranet work email setup with a bunch of interns poring over every single little thing that gets stuck in the filter
If there is one universal truth for US Politics, and a majority of corporations as well, is that they all woefully underpay for IT
trump is also well known to not pay bills
Ugh, I had to deal with the “What do we pay you for” thing recently. I had to go back through an entire year of chat messages and emails and meeting notes to show them exactly all the shit they’re paying for, and after that they said “Oh, yeah, that’s actually useful, we’ll keep paying you.”
The Galactic Intelligence notion of “If you do things right people won’t think you’ve done anything at all” is not the goal for IT. You need to make it blatantly obvious to all of the people two or three rungs above you that what you do is vital and necessary.
I’ve been in the position. The better way is to run from the company because that’s a red flag. They hired morons to manage it.
Is it really that farfetched to think that the people working for the Trump campaign are dumb enough to fall for a phishing email?
I bet it was Eric. He seems dumb enough to fall for that.
Probably a fake OnlyFans link. “Oh I better pay my Onlyfans “invoice.doc” “
Nah, it was claiming to be a coupon for a free hug from his dad.
Leave off the “nah”.
That was an interesting read for me. Thank you, I’ll experiment with Yes, and.
Time to add another item to the vulnerabilities list
Tbh if this was a foreign source, I’d say the actions so far are friendly to the United States.
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.
It’s not some big complex conspiracy.
He picked him to guarantee friendly financial backing.
Everyone knows 🪗-hands isn’t a real billionaire… so anyone who is that also offers him some cash can buy their way in. It’s how he’s always done “business.”
Repubs are utterly corrupt.
When you “send your best” from a criminally corrupt pile of dogshit, you get the average republican!
Maybe the conspiracy has something to do with why Thiel and Musk and others want Trump for president.
Once the hamberders stop blood flow through his arteries they’ll have their personal puppet on the throne. The orange is unpredictable while JDV can be operated directly through the hand up his puppet hole
That’s it, really. Trump was only ever a Trojan horse for far more coherently evil men.
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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Was it just a copy of Hillbilly Elegy?
Vance had one job - do what Pence wouldn’t on Jan 6th.
Then, back in the fucking box.
Word!
Pretty sure a vetting document would have both negatives and positives, right?
Correct
I’m more interested in knowing what the Trump campaign considers a positive…
He was named before Biden stepped down, so I’m guessing they thought he’d help Trump with veterans and suburban women. Of course there is also money involved.
Tbf all the other candidates are also republicans. I’d pay just to find out how big the dossier of the alternatives would get.
But also opposition research is actually normal and prudent. Losing it is obviously not. But do we actually know how damaging the info is?
Trump can’t read so the briefing they gave him was all pictures
Not enough of him or Ivanka clones so he just dozed off and farted
He was confused at seeing the Lovesac catalogue and said “sure! I already have a pillow guy!”
It’s my understanding that the length is fairly normal. The vetting process for VP is very intense and thorough. They will go through every tiny aspect of your entire life if they’re doing their job well.
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.
Anyone got that tater tot recipe leak?
Turns out, he shared a tater tot recipe recently. Either it’s a coincidence or this thread OP is the mole.
He knew he got hacked and he was trying to get ahead of the story.
Just going to save that one.
Come on guys, it’s nearly been an hour, we’re starving here.
Iran should mind their own damn business.
They’re so weird
putin got a copy of it and is examining it for inventing new methods of tort… cutenessless?
Clearly the football plays would assist Putins military commanders more than they seem to be able to manage on their own 🥸
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.
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.
I’m going to go ahead and wait until the FBI finishes their investigation before I believe a word that shit bird’s campaign says about who is responsible for this.
foreign sources hostile to the United States
Anybody who wants to stop Trump should at least be considered a temporary ally.
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 due to spite it seems - which given Trump is the target can only be described as poetic.
It would be sweet if Iran became cool again. Old Iran looked like a somewhat good time.
I mean you could go to Dubai to simulate the experience. Or maybe Cairo.
Don’t hold your breath. Their government is still as oppressive as ever.
There’s no evidence for that yet either though. It’s just Trump claiming it.
Yeah I’m having a hard time feeling negative about Iran doing this when we know what Russia is up to. At least it levels the playing field a bit. Feels icky though!
Obligatory VOTE
When do we get to see the pregnant couch ultra sounds?
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.
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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This is Trump throwing Vance under the bus to find a new VP
“Mr. Trump, the buttery males are coming from INSIDE the campaign!”
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!
