#election hacking

[rantsofaveryhurtperson]

I don't want to sound like a crazy conspiracy theorist.

I really don't, but it's mighty suspicious how Elon Musk was directly involved in this election, and he would absolutely be going to prison if Trump didn't win. Trump said his supporters didn't even need to vote. There was a Duty to Warn letter sent by hacking expert Stephen Spoonamore to the governor of PA, showing that it's not only possible, but perhaps even likely that there was election interference and there ought to be a recount. I've seen numerous anecdotes of voters claiming their votes never made it or have vanished.

Musk's Starlink was connected to voting machines in the swing states. That's mighty convenient for the people who did everything in their power to threaten and disenfranchise voters. There was no election fraud 4 years ago, even though Republicans cried wolf, and I worry that any claims of fraud will not be taken seriously now. I also don't see many people talking about this. I didn't see many people talking about Project 2025 until recently either.

I don't know what to do with this information - it's entirely possible I'm misunderstanding, but I am not an expert. The internet has made it very difficult for people to tell what's real and not anymore. I just can't stop myself from having a tiny bit of hope. I hope they did cheat because that means people at large aren't quite as terrible as I thought.

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[anniemunchkins]

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[aunti-christ-ine]

SO OBVIOUS.

Somebody PLEASE do something.

[neural-blended]

[runninlikewaterr]

I never see anyone talking about this, and not to put on the tin foil hat here but it boggles my mind how every single day of early voting, all over the country, there was massive voter turnout, everyone reporting lines around the building and waiting for hours at their polling places, every single day on twitter I saw so many people saying they had NEVER seen this many people come out to vote, many counties and states reporting numbers that SMASHED the turnout of 2020 and yet…we somehow ended up with 5 million fewer voters than last time? Idk man something smells rotten

[alexanderpearce]

my aunt and uncle separated a little while ago and the first thing i say to my cousins post-that and also for a year and a half is Btw what electorate was your brother my other cousin helping run the election campaign for & did he win the seat

[justinspoliticalcorner]

Judd Legum at Popular Information:

Email communications from individuals associated with the Trump campaign have been hacked by malign actors within the last ten days, Popular Information has confirmed.  On September 18, I was sent a message from "Robert," which contained the cover page of a dossier on Senator JD Vance (R-OH), the Republican vice presidential nominee, dated February 23, 2024. Robert refused to identify himself except to suggest it was the same "Robert" who provided stolen internal Trump campaign materials to Politico, the New York Times, and the Washington Post in July and August. "I thought you must have heard Robert's story," he said. Robert eventually sent me a 271-page Vance dossier, along with similar dossiers on two other potential Donald Trump running mates —  a 382-page document on North Dakota Governor Doug Burgum (R), dated March 2, 2024, and a 550-page document on Senator Marco Rubio (R-FL), dated April 1, 2024. All of the dossiers were marked "Privileged & Confidential."

Robert boasted that he had "a lot" of other Trump campaign materials. He sent me a dozen purported emails to and from top Trump campaign staff, including senior advisor Susie Wiles, senior advisor Dan Scavino, and pollster John McLaughlin. The emails covered an 11-month period, from October 2023 to August 2024. 

Robert also sent a 4-page letter, dated September 15, 2024, from an attorney representing Trump to three individuals at the New York Times. The letter has not been made public by either the Trump campaign or the paper. I provided a copy of the letter to Ben Smith, the editor-in-chief of Semafor, who confirmed its authenticity with someone at the New York Times who had seen it. (Smith has published a piece about the incident on Semafor.)  The legitimacy of the letter proves that the person or people representing themselves as Robert has stolen electronic communications from people associated with the Trump campaign within the last ten days.

Who or what is "Robert"? A threat analysis published by Microsoft on August 9 reported that "[i]n June 2024, Mint Sandstorm—a group run by the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) intelligence unit—sent a spear-phishing email to a high-ranking official of a presidential campaign from a compromised email account of a former senior advisor." On August 10, the Trump campaign said it was the victim of a hack by a foreign actor, citing the Microsoft report.  Three U.S. intelligence agencies have released joint statements, on August 18 and September 19, warning of "Iranian malicious cyber actors" who have obtained "stolen, non-public material from former President Trump’s campaign." Iran has denied any role in the hack. Popular Information will not publish or excerpt the Trump campaign materials provided by Robert. The materials are stolen, and publishing the documents would be a violation of privacy and could encourage future criminal acts.  I believe that, in some circumstances, the publication of leaked materials can be justified. The Pentagon Papers, for example, were obtained illegally by Daniel Ellsberg, but the public interest in revealing the truth about the Vietnam War outweighed those concerns. 

[...]

My personal emails were weaponized by the media and the Trump campaign in 2016

In 2016, Russian hackers were able to access years of emails from the personal account of John Podesta, who was serving as Hillary Clinton's campaign chair. I started working for Podesta in 2001, when I was a first-year law student at Georgetown. By the 2016 election, Podesta had been a colleague and friend for 15 years. So the materials obtained by Russian hackers and published by Wikileaks included correspondence between me and Podesta. 

Media organizations, including the Washington Post, the Denver Post, the National Review, and others, isolated a handful of my private emails to Podesta and used them as grist for articles that attacked my integrity and professionalism. I believe these insinuations were unfounded, but I was forced to defend my reputation in the media and with my colleagues at ThinkProgress, where I worked before starting this newsletter.  I was a bit player in this drama, but it is still disturbing to have your private communications stolen by a foreign government and broadcast by major media outlets.  As Popular Information previously reported, outlets like Politico, the Washington Post, and the New York Times produced dozens of unflattering articles and blog posts about Podesta's emails. 

[...]

There were a few tidbits of news buried in Podesta's emails, but no significant scandal. Most of the coverage amounted to little more than voyeurism. A Politico "live blog" of Podesta's stolen emails had more than 50 entries published over three weeks. "All the Juiciest Dirt in The Podesta E-mails, Explained," Vanity Fair headlined a November 3, 2016 article that was representative of the coverage. Unlike the Trump campaign materials from "Robert," Podesta's emails were posted online by Wikileaks. But the media played a critical role in amplifying the material and turning a collection of mostly anodyne emails into an ongoing scandal. The media also did not verify the authenticity of the hacked materials. The Clinton campaign declined to review 50,000 emails and contest or validate each one. The New York Times and others interpreted that as proof that they were all legitimate.  The coverage lasted for weeks because the stolen emails were released by Wikileaks in small batches. Each time a new batch of emails was released, the media swung into action, mining the stolen materials for any morsel that could be used in a story. There appeared to be little concern that both the content and cadence of political coverage at a critical juncture of the election was being dictated by foreign actors. 

The New York Times published at least 199 articles about the stolen emails between the first leak in June 2016 and Election Day. The New York Times Editorial Board wrote that any negative impact their coverage had on the Clinton campaign was Hillary Clinton's fault for not voluntarily releasing the information contained in the stolen emails. "Imagine if months ago, Mrs. Clinton had done her own giant information release," the New York Times Editorial Board wrote on October 22, 2016. "[E]veryone would have long since moved on." The media frenzy over Podesta's emails was actively encouraged by Trump and his campaign. On July 26, 2016, Trump publicly implored Russia to acquire Clinton's internal emails, promising that the media would amplify them. "Russia, if you’re listening, I hope you’re able to find the 30,000 emails that are missing, I think you will probably be rewarded mightily by our press," Trump said. (It was later revealed that Russia began targeting Clinton campaign officials "on or around" the same day.)  When Wikileaks began posting the emails acquired by Russian hackers, Trump celebrated. He publicly mentioned WikiLeaks 141 times in the month before the election. "WikiLeaks, I love WikiLeaks," Trump told a crowd in Pennsylvania on October 10, 2016. 

The Trump campaign is being hacked just like how Hillary Clinton’s was in 2016.

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[backtonormallife]

Russia started a war in Ukraine in 2014.

Trump installed as POTUS 2016.

Biden installed as POTUS 2020.

Russia invades Ukraine 2022.

Biden doesn’t cooperate, imposes sanctions on Russia.

Trump installed as POTUS 2024.

2016 was a test run. 2024 is what happens when you don’t contest the small fake charge on your credit card.

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FBI says Iran behind Trump campaign hack

[freedomrobot]

Letter to Congress 07-11-24

Hack Attack Election 2024

[puppyboyfranco]

Sunak saying Putin “wants a Labour victory” I….💀 that’s not even just desperate anymore, it’s also incredibly insulting/insensitive