Former US President Donald Trump’s campaign has claimed that “some of his communications” have been hacked and suggested that Iranian hackers were behind the alleged attack, which it said was an attempt to interfere in the November presidential election.
The alleged hack was initially reported by the Politico website, which said that in July it began receiving anonymous emails containing internal documents from the Republican candidate for the White House’s campaign, including a dossier on the vice-presidential candidate chosen by the tycoon, Senator JD Vance.
“These documents were illegally obtained from foreign sources hostile to the United States, with the intent to interfere in the 2024 election and sow chaos throughout our Democratic process,” Trump campaign spokesman Steven Cheung said in statements reported by Bloomberg.
Cheung based his accusations on a report released by Microsoft at the end of this week, which alleged that “Iran is increasingly seeking to influence this year’s US presidential election” by using “fake news sites to influence voter opinion and hacking to obtain intelligence information on political campaigns,” among other things.
In the report, titled “Iran Pushes Forward on 2024 Elections with Cyber-Facilitated Influence Operations,” the firm says it has seen such activity from Tehran in the past three U.S. election cycles and “in recent months.”
While Microsoft’s brief did not identify the campaign, it did link the alleged hacking to “groups linked to the Iranian government” that “hacked the account of a ‘senior official’ in the U.S. presidential campaign in June 2024, coinciding with the deadline for President Trump’s vice presidential nominee selection,” Cheung said.
Along the same lines, the Republican spokesman indicated that there are recent reports of an Iranian plot to end the life of the former president, apart from the assassination attempt on July 13 in Pennsylvania, within the framework of “a broader pattern of threats against former officials of the Trump administration derived from the assassination of Qassem Soleimani, the head of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps, in January 2020.”
“Any media outlet or news organization that reprints internal documents or communications is doing the bidding of America’s enemies and doing exactly what they want,” Cheung said, as reported by Bloomberg.
“Iranians know that President Trump will end their reign of terror, just as he did in his first four years in the White House,” Cheung said, adding a warning that “any media outlet or news agency that reproduces internal documents or communications is following the orders of America’s enemies and doing exactly what they want.”
Cheung did not immediately respond to questions about the campaign’s interactions with Microsoft regarding the matter. Microsoft said Saturday it had no comment beyond its blog post and Friday’s report.
In 2016, the Democratic Party and the campaign of then-White House candidate Hillary Clinton were hacked and published by the Wikileaks platform, which served as fuel for Trump.
A subsequent investigation blamed the Russian government for orchestrating the attack.
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