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.

    • @gibmiser
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      Vance clicked on a link for hot CILFs in his area.

      • Semi-Hemi-Lemmygod
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        Social engineering is the greatest skill a hacker can have

        • @_bcron
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          deleted by creator

          • Vox
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            If there is one universal truth for US Politics, and a majority of corporations as well, is that they all woefully underpay for IT

              • @Fedizen
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                trump is also well known to not pay bills

              • Semi-Hemi-Lemmygod
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                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.

                • @suction
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                  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.

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          Nope. It’s creating real looking email templates.

    • @dhork
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      I bet it was Eric. He seems dumb enough to fall for that.

      • @kayos
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        Probably a fake OnlyFans link. “Oh I better pay my Onlyfans “invoice.doc” “

    • @Raiderkev
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      Is it really that farfetched to think that the people working for the Trump campaign are dumb enough to fall for a phishing email?

    • @meeeeetch
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      Time to add another item to the vulnerabilities list

  • @Gradually_Adjusting
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    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.

      • @barsquid
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        Repubs are utterly corrupt.

        • @WhatAmLemmy
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          When you “send your best” from a criminally corrupt pile of dogshit, you get the average republican!

      • @[email protected]
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        Maybe the conspiracy has something to do with why Thiel and Musk and others want Trump for president.

        • @[email protected]
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          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

          • @Gradually_Adjusting
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            That’s it, really. Trump was only ever a Trojan horse for far more coherently evil men.

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      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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    • @slickgoat
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      Vance had one job - do what Pence wouldn’t on Jan 6th.

      Then, back in the fucking box.

      • @[email protected]
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        He was confused at seeing the Lovesac catalogue and said “sure! I already have a pillow guy!”

      • Optional
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        Not enough of him or Ivanka clones so he just dozed off and farted

    • @emax_gomax
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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.

    • @recapitated
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      But also opposition research is actually normal and prudent. Losing it is obviously not. But do we actually know how damaging the info is?

        • David
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          I’m more interested in knowing what the Trump campaign considers a positive…

          • @Rapidcreek
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            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.

    • Cethin
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      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.

  • @TehWorld
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    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 recipe.

    • @NormalPerson
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      Anyone got that tater tot recipe leak?

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        Turns out, he shared a tater tot recipe recently. Either it’s a coincidence or this thread OP is the mole.

      • Nfamwap
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        Come on guys, it’s nearly been an hour, we’re starving here.

    • @[email protected]
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      I honestly don’t know which I’m more upset about… the play book is one thing… but Meemaw’s hot dish recipe is sacred dammit

    • @werefreeatlast
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      putin got a copy of it and is examining it for inventing new methods of tort… cutenessless?

      • @TehWorld
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        Clearly the football plays would assist Putins military commanders more than they seem to be able to manage on their own 🥸

    • @Sunroc
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      Iran should mind their own damn business.

      • @paf0
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        They’re so weird

    • @riodoro1
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      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.

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        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.

  • @aesthelete
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    The most shocking part about this is that Trump’s team vetted JD Vance.

    • @mriguy
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      To be fair, compared to Trump, nobody looks that problematic.

    • @Rustywhims
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      The vetting concluded after a Bing search result.

    • @Fedizen
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      I mean does trump even know how to read?

    • @angrystego
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      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?

  • Billiam
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    foreign sources hostile to the United States

    Anybody who wants to stop Trump should at least be considered a temporary ally.

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      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 out of spite it seems - which given Trump is the target can only be described as poetic.

      • @MegaUltraChicken
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        It would be sweet if Iran became cool again. Old Iran looked like a somewhat good time.

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          Don’t hold your breath. Their government is still as oppressive as ever.

        • @suction
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          I mean you could go to Dubai to simulate the experience. Or maybe Cairo.

    • @proudblond
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      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

    • @Maggoty
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      There’s no evidence for that yet either though. It’s just Trump claiming it.

  • @Rakonat
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    Iran if you’re listening, we would love to see those RNC emails that were floating around.

      • JollyBrancher
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        I read this online, and nobody has been able to provide entire proof to the contrary!

      • @Snowclone
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        Now now. As far as we know, he’s only into consenting adult men.

        • @Rakonat
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          I remember reading an anonymous sex worker report that indirectly pointed to him as having a diaper fetish.

            • @Rakonat
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              Yes but not that he deserves it, benefit of the doubt nobody has actual evidence of it, the sources are even less credible than the hunter biden laptop bullshit.

  • @[email protected]
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    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.

  • @Snapz
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    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

  • @Lauchs
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    There’s something delightful about the trump campaign complaining about foreign interference, which clearly should only be allowed by Russia.

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    Not so funny when it’s you, is it

    Come on let’s talk about how foreign nations shouldn’t be interfering in US elections

    And about how the “Persians” chumped the Obama administration on the nuclear deal until you got the best of them and now they fear and respect you and only you

    You nincompoops

  • @Maggoty
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    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?

    • @rsuri
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      Yeah I have doubts Iran would release to Politico and Washington Post first

      • @MutilationWave
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        That would be the move if they think they’re about to be carpet bombed by Israel with American weapons under Trump.

    • @enbyecho
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      Exactly. This headline is inaccurate garbage. It should be something like “Trump blames Iran” + preferably “without evidence”

  • @expatriado
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    this is how we find out the couch joke was actually serious?

    • Optional
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      There’s a couch tape?!?

    • peopleproblems
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      Given just how absolutely fucked this timeline is?

      If it is mentioned in there that he did, and it’s completely pure coincidence that the meme started, I don’t know how I’d process it. I feel like it would be that episode of South Park where Erik breaks his funny bone

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        “Fucked timeline”

        “South Park”

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    So now trump will dump Vance. Who’s next lol

    • @mean_bean279
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      While I won’t say he won’t dump him, it would definitely make him look weak. I mean, Trump picked him and he dumps him as soon as he has problems and he picked a bad candidate? That just screams poor leadership and weak. Plus the RNC already happened, and with as much as they bitched about switching the dem candidate… although Republicans aren’t exactly famous for doing as they say…

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        Yea, the Trump response is often to foolishly double-down, he did last week on Kamala turning Black. I don’t see him being able to admit he was wrong about Vance, he’ll probably double-down again.

        • @mean_bean279
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          I can see it now: The radical left is coming after JD Vance because they can’t choose their names like he did and they can’t fuck as many couches as he can. Or something like that.

      • @NounsAndWords
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        Idk, practically everything he’s done for 8 years now has screamed poor leadership and weakness to me but his cult keeps eating it up …

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        I mean, Trump picked him and he dumps him as soon as he has problems and he picked a bad candidate? That just screams poor leadership and weak.

        That was the Trump administration in a nutshell. I wonder how many Scaramuccis Vance will last.

        • @mean_bean279
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          Yes, but Mooch and others like him weren’t the position of power that a dictator needs as a yes man. Which Vance has promised to be. That’s all Trump needs.

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        He’s damned if he does, damned if he doesn’t. He’s just done.

      • @Rapidcreek
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        Trump wouldn’t do it himself, he’d have Vance step down.

    • @emax_gomax
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      Doubt it. Foreign countries having leverage over you is basically the hallmark of trumps presidential position.

    • Semi-Hemi-Lemmygod
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      Can he though? Aren’t the ballots more or less fixed now? Didn’t he win the republican primary?

      • @Volkditty
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        Oh, is it against the rules? Yeah, Trump probably won’t try to do it then.

        • @Telodzrum
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          It’s against the rules, but the party can just change those. The issue is that the states won’t print new ballots. So, even if the VP nominee changes, the ballots will still say Vance.

    • @Got_Bent
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      Wasn’t Vance duly elected at the Republican convention? Could trump unilaterally kick him out?