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.

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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.

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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.

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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?

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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.

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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

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

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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.

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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

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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

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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?

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

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    I can’t believe they’ve modeled the Trump 2024 campaign after Hillary 2016 campaign.

    Next up: “Vote Vance 2024, its his turn”

    Edit: I completely forgot that Rogan, Tim Pool, and Kyle Rittenhouse were all vote shamed to publicly endorse Donald Trump in line with the ‘celebrity resume’ strategy of Hillary Clinton.