Tuesday, August 13, 2024 - The FBI has launched an investigation into the alleged hacking of documents belonging to former President Donald Trump’s campaign, the bureau said in a statement.
“We can confirm the FBI is
investigating this matter,” the FBI said Monday night, August 12.
On Saturday, the Trump campaign accused Iran of being behind
the alleged hack after Politico reported that it had received anonymous emails
that included internal documents related to the vetting of Sen. JD Vance
(R-Ohio) – who was tapped as Trump’s running mate last month.
The outlet said it began receiving campaign communications
belonging to a “senior Trump campaign official” on July 22 from an
anonymous AOL account, and insiders confirmed the documents, which detailed
Vance’s record, past statements and “potential vulnerabilities,” were
authentic.
Trump campaign spokesman Steven Cheung asserted that the
documents were “obtained illegally from foreign sources hostile to the United
States” in an effort to “interfere with the 2024 election and sow chaos
throughout our Democratic process.”
“The Iranians know that
President Trump will stop their reign of terror just like he did in his first
four years in the White House,” he added, noting that Microsoft revealed last
week that Iranian hackers had targeted a presidential campaign and that the
alleged hack came “after recent reports of an Iranian plot to assassinate” the
45th president.
Trump, 78, also claimed Saturday that one of his “many
websites was hacked by the Iranian Government.”
“They were only able to get
publicly available information but, nevertheless, they shouldn’t be doing
anything of this nature,” he wrote on Truth Social. “ Iran and others will stop
at nothing, because our Government is Weak and Ineffective, but it won’t be for
long.”
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