The Harris campaign has denied having any prior knowledge that Iranian cyber actors hacked Trump campaign materials in June and early July and provided them to the Biden-Harris campaign and media.
Many of President Joe Biden's senior campaign staffers have worked for or are still with Harris' campaign since Democrats replaced Biden as their top presidential candidate.
“Wow, it just came out! The FBI has found that Iran spied on my campaign and provided all of that information to Kamala Harris' campaign, which means she and her campaign illegally spied on me,” former President Donald Trump said. Reacted At Truth Social.
“It will be known as the Iran, Iran, Iran incident! Will Kamala resign from politics in disgrace? Will the communist left choose a new candidate to replace her?” he wondered.
The Harris campaign issued an unusual statement to reporters denying that it had any information about the hack.
“Since learning that individuals associated with the then-Biden campaign were the targets of this foreign influence operation, we have been working with the appropriate law enforcement authorities,” Harris campaign spokesman Morgan Finkelstein said. said said in a statement on Wednesday.
“We are not aware of any materials sent directly to the campaign. Several individuals were targeted with emails that appeared to be spam and phishing attempts,” Finkelstein added.
This revelation by U.S. intelligence and law enforcement agencies highlights a brazen attempt by Iran to interfere in the 2024 elections on behalf of the Democratic Party. The Trump Administration has taken serious steps to curb Iranian aggression against the United States and its allies.
“Kamala and Biden must come clean about whether they used hacking materials provided by Iran to harm President Trump – what they knew and when they knew it,” Caroline Leavitt, the Trump campaign's national spokeswoman, said in a statement.
More details about the hacked materials can be found here.
Wendell Fsebo is a political reporter for Breitbart News and a former war room analyst for the Republican National Committee. He is the author of: The Politics of Slave MoralityFollow Wendell “X” @WendellHusebø or The truth of society @WendellHusebo.
