Justice Department indicts three Iranians for hack-and-leak operation on Trump campaign

The Justice Department unsealed an indictment Friday charging three members of a notorious Iranian paramilitary group with hacking Trump campaign staff and leaking sensitive information to the campaign of President Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris to undermine the former president’s re-election effort.

Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) members Masoud Jalili, Seyyed Ali Aghamiri and Yasar Balaghi were charged in the “wide-ranging hacking campaign” that employed fake online personas and targeted four Trump campaign operatives, current and former US government officials, journalists and others.

The hackers impersonated the wife of a sitting US Supreme Court justice, claimed to be running a Middle East non-governmental group that didn’t exist and sent an invitation to a phony holiday party at the United Arab Emirates embassy in Washington.

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[grabbag]

Should indict the Brandon regime as co-conspirators.

[janettporter]

Question: So what are you going to do about these things? 2, Are you going to do something now and not later? What about the threat of the threat to blowing up Trumps plan. What are you doing to stop that? 😡

[stop_lying_to_me]

During Donald Trump's presidency, the U.S. economy contracted at the fastest rate since 1946 and the unemployment rate reached 14.7%, the highest since the Great Depression. Housing costs increased 25%. Homelessness increased 6%. The inflation rate rose by 7.75%, and the poverty rate climbed by 1.76%. Immigration surged by 14.7%, while the U.S. national debt expanded by 40.43%. The national homicide rate rose to the highest level since 1997. Hate crimes increased 20%. The trade deficit grew to $679 billion.