Iran is playing the election interference game, big time
Iran seems to be really, really reluctant to allow Trump to win the election. Now the FBI has announced that one of Iran’s efforts to thwart him involved attempting to enlist Biden aides by enticing them with hacked information:
The hackers sent emails in late June and early July to people who were associated with Biden’s campaign before he dropped out. The emails “contained an excerpt taken from stolen, non-public material from former President Trump’s campaign as text in the emails,” according to a U.S. government statement.
The announcement is the latest effort to call out what officials say is Iran’s brazen, ongoing work to interfere in the 2024 election, including a hack-and-leak campaign that the FBI and other federal agencies linked last month to Tehran. The Justice Department has been preparing charges in that breach, The Associated Press has reported.
Politico, The New York Times and The Washington Post were among the outlets who received the communications from Iran, but they’re not saying what was revealed.
Of course, we have no reason to trust the FBI on any of this, due to past performance regarding Trump, dossiers, foreign involvement, the FISA court, and the media. But in the case of Iran, there’s no need to imagine any convoluted motives: Iran has obvious and very strong reasons to do everything in its power to prevent Trump from ever being elected again.
It’s rather telling that Iran and a lot of Democrats are on the same page.
I think there is reason to “trust” the FBI on it simply because it’s blatantly not anti-Trump.
If it was anti-Trump, THEN it would have a chance of being specious.
I think it’s pretty safe to say that, if anything, it is pro-Trump, because anyone in their right mind would not want to be on the same side as Iran in just about any argument.
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They don’t want their cash flow to get cut off
Ah, October Surprise coming right up. Do you really think Harris or the MSM will not use intel from Iran?
I think it was on Legal Insurrection, that the hacked (or leaked?) material included a vetting dossier on J. D. Vance, from 6+ months ago.
To be fair, I think that assumes that there’s anything in these campaign materials that’s juicy enough beyond itineraries, email and other contact lists, and perhaps some rough strategies that were crafted no more recently than back in June while Biden was still the nominee. It seems unlikely that there would be much that would reach the level of an “October Surprise”, but who can say? Something like the Trump campaign was planning on making a pitch about some controversial topic maybe?