Posted on 08/13/2024 5:54:53 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
At least three news outlets were leaked confidential material from inside the Donald Trump campaign, including its report vetting JD Vance as a vice presidential candidate. So far, each has refused to reveal any details about what they received.
Instead, Politico, The New York Times and The Washington Post have written about a potential hack of the campaign and described what they had in broad terms.
Their decisions stand in marked contrast to the 2016 presidential campaign, when a Russian hack exposed emails to and from Hillary Clinton’s campaign manager, John Podesta. The website Wikileaks published a trove of these embarrassing missives, and mainstream news organizations covered them avidly.
Politico wrote over the weekend about receiving emails starting July 22 from a person identified as “Robert” that included a 271-page campaign document about Vance and a partial vetting report on Sen. Marco Rubio, who was also considered as a potential vice president. Both Politico and the Post said that two people had independently confirmed that the documents were authentic.
“Like many such vetting documents,” The Times wrote of the Vance report, “they contained past statements with the potential to be embarrassing or damaging, such as Mr. Vance’s remarks casting aspersions on Mr. Trump.”
What’s unclear is who provided the material. Politico said it did not know who “Robert” was and that when it spoke to the supposed leaker, he said, “I suggest you don’t be curious about where I got them from.”
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saving for october?
That just means there wasn’t any juicy dirt they liked.
They are NOT principled, moral people.
It will be their Oct surprise.
It’s their hold cards.
They are using the information, just not publishing it.
For example, if they know what negatives the Trump campaign feels about Vance, they might just harp on those negatives themselves.
Bingo! you got it that was my exact thought! They’re holding it back for an October surprise? I just wish we had experts on our side to hack the rats computers also …fair game when they start playing this kind of deceptive evil game!
No, because they don’t want to have to explain when they cover for the POTATUS or the putative PUTATUS.
CIA or FBI people still trying to sink Trump.
Good catch. But if this is the case, then there is someone that needs to be caught and let go. If these types of people are running the campaign, no wonder they are falling behind.
They’re holding it for October.
Either that or there was nothing damaging in it
my first thought too. IF there was any damage to Trump they would already be using it. my thought is they won’t use anything because it all proves that Trump IS the real deal. they can’t have that knowledge out there, now can they?
Trump invited Maria Abramovich to a “spirit cooking” dinner at Comet Pizza.
Exactly what I thought, not much juicy stuff there.
No cheese pizzas and hot dogs, if you know what I mean.
This is Watergate II, but what will the press do about it? Nothing.
“That just means there wasn’t any juicy dirt they liked.”
No smart political organization would put “juicy” stuff on the internet.
Hacking needs to be a felony. A capital offense. Hang the turd rollers. Hacking is going to get a lot of people killed the next time there is a war. The freaks and weirdos have made it very popular and something that a lot of Hacking Chimps are very proud of.
If there was nothing damaging, then why bother leaking it? Is that really a leak? “Hey, I got some dirt to leak to you. Trump paid all his taxes!Don’t tell anyone who told you”
I 100% agree. Follow the electron hack and vaporize the hacker.
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