Iran threatens to release 100GB of Trump aides’ emails: what to know

https://www.newsweek.com/iran-hackers-threaten-leak-trump-emails-2092864

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  1. An Iran-linked hacking group has threatened to release a batch of emails it said it has stolen from President Donald Trump’s longtime aides, including adviser Roger Stone and White House chief of staff Susie Wiles.

    Reuters reported Monday that a cyberattack group that hacked the president’s campaign last year claimed it had roughly 100 gigabytes of emails it could leak.

    The hackers, operating under the pseudonym Robert, did not provide information about the content of the emails or when they plan to release them, according to the news agency. The group previously released some emails in the lead-up to the U.S. presidential election last year.

    A “hostile foreign adversary is threatening to illegally exploit purportedly stolen and unverified material in an effort to distract, discredit, and divide,” the U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency said late on Monday.

  5. If any relate to the Trump’s Bill and how aides know it is a debt bomb and will also screw over Trump’s own supporters, now is the time!

  7. Probably an empty threat, but if not, “turnabout is fair play”! We all remember how gleeful Trump was about Russia hacking into the DNC and giving it to wikileaks to release and embarrass and hurt Hillary’s campaign. He even egged them on, asking them “to find” her “missing’ emails and that “the media will reward you”. He celebrated when they DID release them because they did hurt HRC, esp. because Trump had talked up her email “corruption” so much, making nothing into something. He applauded wikileaks and the Russians doing it, even though it was a crime.

    Stone is likely to describe Trump’s utter corruption as well as his own, and possibly Trump’s contempt for his followers. Maybe something from Jan 6 since Stone, Bannon, Flynn and others were holed up in the Trump hotel suite, in phone contact with him and others as things went down on the Capitol. Hopefully, incriminating stuff!

    Wiles may have some embarrassing personal criticisms/observations of Trump in private. Juicy! Damaging! (One can hope.)

    “What goes around comes around.” Right, Donald?

  10. If they follow through with it –

    this would be medal of honor worthy stuff.

  12. >~~Russia~~ Iran, if you’re listening, I hope you’re able to find the ~~30,000~~ 100 GB of emails that are missing.

    -Donald Trump, sorta

  14. Even if this isn’t an empty threat and they have emails and release them there is no way his base support will believe they are real

  15. It won’t matter to the cult. The Deal Leader can do no wrong. They will call out anything they don’t like as fake or “out of context”.

  16. Don’t threaten us with a good time. I would think they have more than 100GB.

  17. Threatening something means they don’t have anything. If you had something, you would release a very damaging email or two.

  18. Trump 2016: “Russia, if you’re listening, if you leak Clinton’s emails you will be highly rewarded.”
    Trump 2024: “Anyone caught leaking these emails will be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law.”

  19. Considering the timeline we live in, there can be absolutely nothing in these emails that would bring down Trump. It’s just noise at this point.

  20. Iran does realize America elected a convicted felon to the highest executive position available? He’s dodged impeachments, and court proceedings, ignored court orders without repercussion, defied laws from local to federal to Constitutional and is still in command.

    WTF does Iran think this will accomplish? The people fighting against his authoritarianism already know he’s a piece of shit.

  22. Why *threaten* to release? Your sites were just bombed, your general was killed a few years ago. Why aren’t the contents of these email in every news reporter’s email?!? I call bs.

  23. Just do it enough with these threats, I mean it doesn’t matter. They could show his bronzer is ground up Christian babies and his base would love him for it

  25. > CISA spokesperson Marci McCarthy called the intrusion a “calculated smear campaign” intended to damage the president.

    But Marci has no issue with this sort of thing when it’s Trump actively asking Russia to do the same thing in the 2026 campaign …

  26. Please do not threaten the American people with a good time

  27. So what? Does anyone think this would change the mind of one MAGAt? Not a chance. They’d call it fake news and continue cheering ICE as they deport 60-year-old grandmothers. We really need to understand that we are not getting rid of him until Jan 2029, and even that isn’t a certainty at this point.

  31. Anonymous; Iran; whoever: don’t say you’re going to, just fucking do it.

  32. This is the best way for them to respond to the bombing. Perfect attack strategy. No notes, except release it faster.

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