Steven Cheung, campaign spokesman for the former US president, based his accusations on a report issued by Microsoft to denounce that Tehran's intention to "influence this year's US presidential elections" is increasingly evident.
The former US president's campaign team Donald Trump has reported that “some of his communications” had been 'hacked' and has suggested that Iranian hackers would be behind the alleged attack, pointed out as an attempt to interfere in the November presidential elections.
The alleged 'hacking' was initially reported by the portal Politico, which has assured that in July it began receiving anonymous emails with internal documents from the campaign of the Republican candidate for the White House, which included a dossier about the vice presidential candidate chosen by the magnate, Senator JD Vance.
“These documents were illegally obtained from foreign sources hostile to the United States, with the intention of interfering in the 2024 elections and sowing chaos throughout our Democratic process,” according to Trump's campaign spokesperson, Steven Cheung, in statements collected by Bloomberg.
Cheung based his accusations on a report issued by Microsoft at the end of this week to denounce that, “increasingly, Iran's intention is influence this year's US presidential election”, using “fake news sites to influence the opinions of voters and 'hacks' to obtain intelligence information about political campaigns”, among others.
In the report, called “Iran advances in 2024 elections with cyber-facilitated influence operations”, the company indicates that it has seen this activity from Tehran in the last three election cycles in the US and “in recent months.”
Although Microsoft's letter did not identify the campaign, it did associate these alleged acts of hacking with "groups related to the Iranian government," which "broke into the account of a 'high-ranking official' of the US presidential campaign in June." 2024, coinciding with the deadline for President Trump's selection of the vice presidential candidate," according to Cheung.
Along the same lines, the Republican spokesperson indicated that there are recent reports about a iranian plot to end the life of the former president, apart from the assassination attempt on July 13 in Pennsylvania, within the framework of “a broader pattern of threats against former officials of the Trump administration derived from the murder of Qassem Soleimani, the head of Iran's Revolutionary Guard Corps, in January 2020.
“Any media or news outlet that reprints internal documents or communications is following the orders of the enemies of the United States and doing exactly what they want,” Cheung stated in this regard and has stated as follows. Bloomberg.
“Iranians know that President Trump will end his reign of terror.”, just as he did in his first four years in the White House," Cheung said, adding a warning that "any media outlet or news agency that reproduces internal documents or communications is following the orders of America's enemies and doing exactly what they want.”
Cheung did not immediately respond to questions about the campaign's interactions with Microsoft regarding the matter. Microsoft said Saturday it had no comment beyond its blog post and Friday's report.
In 2016, the Democratic Party and the campaign of then-White House candidate Hillary Clinton were hacked and published by the Wikileaks platform, which served as gasoline for Trump.
A subsequent investigation blamed the Russian government for orchestrating the attack.
(With information from EP, AP and EFE)