PoliticoĀ reports that it was sent communications from inside theĀ Trump campaign, including Sen.Ā J.D. Vanceā€™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 ā€œforeign sources hostile to the United States,ā€ for leaking them.

  • The Snark Urge@lemmy.world
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    The real story is not that Trump had a novel length document of everything wrong with Vance (we know heā€™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.

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          When you ā€œsend your bestā€ from a criminally corrupt pile of dogshit, you get the average republican!

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          Once the hamberders stop blood flow through his arteries theyā€™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

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      As others have noted Peter Thiel money might have influenced the choice. Given Vanceā€™s relationship to Project 2025 (he wrote the foreword to Kevin Robertsā€™s book, remember[1]) itā€™s also possible he was a strongly pushed Heritage Foundation plant - put in place to ensure the flailing incoherent mess that is Trumpā€™s mind is actually implementing Project 2025 properly when elected.


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      Tbf all the other candidates are also republicans. Iā€™d pay just to find out how big the dossier of the alternatives would get.

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          Iā€™m more interested in knowing what the Trump campaign considers a positiveā€¦

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            He was named before Biden stepped down, so Iā€™m guessing they thought heā€™d help Trump with veterans and suburban women. Of course there is also money involved.

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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?

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      Itā€™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 theyā€™re doing their job well.