Politico reports that it was sent communications from inside the Trump campaign, including Sen. J.D. Vance’s (R-OH) 271-page vetting file, allegedly by an Iranian hacker.

The outlet said that it has been receiving anonymous emails containing internal communications from the Trump campaign. The campaign acknowledged the authenticity of the communications on Saturday, accusing “foreign sources hostile to the United States,” for leaking them.

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ButHerEmails.jpg with a side of StopStopHesAlreadyDead.gif

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So now trump will dump Vance. Who’s next lol

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Can he though? Aren’t the ballots more or less fixed now? Didn’t he win the republican primary?

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Oh, is it against the rules? Yeah, Trump probably won’t try to do it then.

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It’s against the rules, but the party can just change those. The issue is that the states won’t print new ballots. So, even if the VP nominee changes, the ballots will still say Vance.

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While I won’t say he won’t dump him, it would definitely make him look weak. I mean, Trump picked him and he dumps him as soon as he has problems and he picked a bad candidate? That just screams poor leadership and weak. Plus the RNC already happened, and with as much as they bitched about switching the dem candidate… although Republicans aren’t exactly famous for doing as they say…

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Yea, the Trump response is often to foolishly double-down, he did last week on Kamala turning Black. I don’t see him being able to admit he was wrong about Vance, he’ll probably double-down again.

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I can see it now: The radical left is coming after JD Vance because they can’t choose their names like he did and they can’t fuck as many couches as he can. Or something like that.

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Idk, practically everything he’s done for 8 years now has screamed poor leadership and weakness to me but his cult keeps eating it up …

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I mean, Trump picked him and he dumps him as soon as he has problems and he picked a bad candidate? That just screams poor leadership and weak.

That was the Trump administration in a nutshell. I wonder how many Scaramuccis Vance will last.

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Yes, but Mooch and others like him weren’t the position of power that a dictator needs as a yes man. Which Vance has promised to be. That’s all Trump needs.

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He’s damned if he does, damned if he doesn’t. He’s just done.

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Trump wouldn’t do it himself, he’d have Vance step down.

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Doubt it. Foreign countries having leverage over you is basically the hallmark of trumps presidential position.

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Wasn’t Vance duly elected at the Republican convention? Could trump unilaterally kick him out?

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They got it through a fucking phishing email

HAHAHAHAHA

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This is what most hacking is.

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Social engineering is the greatest skill a hacker can have

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Nope. It’s creating real looking email templates.

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Vance clicked on a link for hot CILFs in his area.

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CILF omg that is delicioso

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JD Vance pays for pictures of dirty couches when craigslist exists smh

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OnlyCushions

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Wait, just to be clear, does the C stand for Couches or Cetaceans?

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yes

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I bet it was Eric. He seems dumb enough to fall for that.

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Probably a fake OnlyFans link. “Oh I better pay my Onlyfans “invoice.doc” “

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Nah, it was claiming to be a coupon for a free hug from his dad.

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Time to add another item to the vulnerabilities list

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Is it really that farfetched to think that the people working for the Trump campaign are dumb enough to fall for a phishing email?

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The real story is not that Trump had a novel length document of everything wrong with Vance (we know he’s basically what you get if Oogy Boogy was filled with empty vapes and paternal disappointment instead of just bugs). No, the real story is that Trump picked him anyway.

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Was it just a copy of Hillbilly Elegy?

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Tbf all the other candidates are also republicans. I’d pay just to find out how big the dossier of the alternatives would get.

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Repubs are utterly corrupt.

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When you “send your best” from a criminally corrupt pile of dogshit, you get the average republican!

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Maybe the conspiracy has something to do with why Thiel and Musk and others want Trump for president.

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Once the hamberders stop blood flow through his arteries they’ll have their personal puppet on the throne. The orange is unpredictable while JDV can be operated directly through the hand up his puppet hole

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As others have noted Peter Thiel money might have influenced the choice. Given Vance’s relationship to Project 2025 (he wrote the foreword to Kevin Roberts’s book, remember[1]) it’s also possible he was a strongly pushed Heritage Foundation plant - put in place to ensure the flailing incoherent mess that is Trump’s mind is actually implementing Project 2025 properly when elected.


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Trump can’t read so the briefing they gave him was all pictures

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Not enough of him or Ivanka clones so he just dozed off and farted

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He was confused at seeing the Lovesac catalogue and said “sure! I already have a pillow guy!”

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Pretty sure a vetting document would have both negatives and positives, right?

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Correct

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I’m more interested in knowing what the Trump campaign considers a positive…

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Vance had one job - do what Pence wouldn’t on Jan 6th.

Then, back in the fucking box.

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Word!

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But also opposition research is actually normal and prudent. Losing it is obviously not. But do we actually know how damaging the info is?

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It’s my understanding that the length is fairly normal. The vetting process for VP is very intense and thorough. They will go through every tiny aspect of your entire life if they’re doing their job well.

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