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.
Release it. Release it all. Let the public decide.
There’s something delightful about the trump campaign complaining about foreign interference, which clearly should only be allowed by Russia.
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.
Was it just a copy of Hillbilly Elegy?
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…
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!”
Vance had one job - do what Pence wouldn’t on Jan 6th.
Then, back in the fucking box.
Word!
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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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?
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.”
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.
Repubs are utterly corrupt.
When you “send your best” from a criminally corrupt pile of dogshit, you get the average republican!
LOCK HIM UP!
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.
“Mr. Trump, the buttery males are coming from INSIDE the campaign!”
Iran, if you’re listening…
The most shocking part about this is that Trump’s team vetted JD Vance.
The vetting concluded after a Bing search result.
I think that actually checks out. For mob bosses like Trump it’s not good if people are too clean. It means they could turn on them in the future. Problematic past is leverage and that means loyalty. How severe problems do you have to have to stay loyal to Trump longterm?
I mean does trump even know how to read?
To be fair, compared to Trump, nobody looks that problematic.
I knew it was a couch. I clicked it anyhow. I was not disappointed.
When do we get to see the pregnant couch ultra sounds?
According to the Politico article I read the only group saying it’s Iran is the Trump campaign. Can we not give them free exposure?
Yeah I have doubts Iran would release to Politico and Washington Post first
That would be the move if they think they’re about to be carpet bombed by Israel with American weapons under Trump.
Exactly. This headline is inaccurate garbage. It should be something like “Trump blames Iran” + preferably “without evidence”
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!
Iranian Phisher weeks ago: “Wow, this guy fucked a couch…”
Mueller finally released his report!
Tbh if this was a foreign source, I’d say the actions so far are friendly to the United States.
