X blocks links to hacked JD Vance dossier
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First as tragedy, then as farce.

X is preventing users from posting links to a newsletter containing a hacked document that’s alleged to be the Trump campaign’s research into vice presidential candidate JD Vance. The journalist who wrote the newsletter, Ken Klippenstein, has been suspended from the platform. Searches for posts containing a link to the newsletter turn up nothing.

The document allegedly comes from an Iranian hack of the Trump campaign. Though other news outlets have received information from the hack, they declined to publish. Klippenstein says in his newsletter that a source called “Robert,” with an AOL email address, offered him the document. Contained in it are what appear to be Vance’s full name, addresses, and part of his social security number.

  • jordanlund@lemmy.world
    411·
    21 hours ago

    The Steele Dossier was largely validated, even the more outrageous stuff like the pee tape. It’s fake, but it was a real tape and one of Trump’s goons in Russia tipped off Michael Cohen about it and how they stopped it from getting out.

    Confirmed in a footnote in the Mueller report of all things, that nobody read.

    https://www.advocate.com/news/2019/4/18/mueller-report-confirms-compromising-tapes-trump-russia

    The report found that Cohen received a text from Russian businessman Giorgi Rtskhiladze that stated he had, “Stopped flow of tapes from Russia but not sure if there’s anything else… Just so you know.'”

    In a follow-up text to Cohen, Rtskhiladze makes clear he’s talking about “compromising tapes of Trump rumored to be held by persons associated with the Russian real estate conglomerate Crocus Group, which had helped host the 2013 Miss Universe Pageant in Russia.”