Former President and GOP presidential candidate Donald Trump asked if Vice President Kamala Harris would “resign in disgrace” from politics after the Federal Bureau of Investigations (FBI) said Iranian hackers sought to interest President Joe Biden’s campaign in information stolen from the former president’s campaign.
On Wednesday, the FBI and other agencies sent unsolicited emails to individuals connected to Joe Biden to try to interfere in the 2024 election.
Vice President Harris replaced Biden as the Democratic Party’s presidential nominee following the president’s disastrous debate performance in June. Some Biden campaign members are now working for Harris.
“WOW, JUST OUT! THE FBI CAUGHT IRAN SPYING ON MY CAMPAIGN AND GIVING ALL OF THE INFORMATION TO THE KAMALA HARRIS CAMPAIGN. THEREFORE SHE AND HER CAMPAIGN WERE ILLEGALLY SPYING ON ME,” posted Trump Wednesday evening on his Truth Social.
“TO BE KNOWN AS THE IRAN, IRAN, IRAN CASE! WILL KAMALA RESIGN IN DISGRACE FROM POLITICS? WILL THE COMMUNIST LEFT PICK A NE CANDIDATE TO REPLACE HER?”
Thursday, Trump continued commenting on the situation.
“WHEN DOES KAMALA AND HER CAMPAIGN GO BEFORE A GRAND JURY ON IRAN, IRAN, IRAN? MY CAMPAIGN WHEN THROUGH HELL ON THE RUSSIA, RUSSIA, RUSSIA HOAX. THE BIG DIFFERENCE IS THAT THE IRAN/KAMALA CAMPAIGN CORRUPTION CASE IS REAL!” Trump posted.
Government officials said there wasn’t any evidence of any response from the recipients, preventing the hacked information from surfacing in the last months of the close presidential election.
Hackers sent emails with stolen material from Trump’s campaign
Hackers sent emails in late June and early July to individuals who were associated with Joe Biden’s campaign before he withdrew. The emails “contained an excerpt taken from stolen, non-public material from former President Trump’s campaign as text in the emails,” said a statement from the U.S. government.
Earlier in the month, the Department of Justice (DOJ) charged two people connected with allegations Russia funded a content creation company based in Tennessee to publish almost 2,000 videos containing Russian propaganda.
“This is further proof the Iranians are actively interfering in the election to help Kamala Harris and Joe Biden because they know President Trump will restore his tough sanctions and stand against their reign of terror,” said Trump campaign national press secretary Karoline Leavitt.
“Kamala and Biden must come clean on whether they used the hacked material given to them by the Iranians to hurt President Trump. What did they know, and when did they know it?