Citing historical tensions between himself and Iran, Donald Trump has claimed that parts of his campaign’s internal communications have been compromised and he has placed the blame on the Iranian government.
The campaign for the Republican Party issued a statement soon after Politico, a news website, revealed that it had started receiving emails in July from an unidentified source providing genuine papers from within Trump’s administration, including a dossier regarding running mate JD Vance’s “potential vulnerabilities.”
Trump campaign spokesperson Steven Cheung said “These documents were obtained illegally from foreign sources hostile to the United States, intended 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.”
Late on Saturday night, Trump announced on his Truth Social app that the campaign had just received information from Microsoft (MSFT.O) that one of its websites had been hacked by Iran. Citing Iran as the source of the problem, he said that they “only able to get publicly available information.” He didn’t go into any more detail about the hack.
The Trump campaign cited a study released on Friday by Microsoft researchers, which claimed that in June, hackers with ties to the Iranian government attempted to breach the account of a “high-ranking official” on a U.S. presidential campaign.
