Elections
Multiple Iranians Indicted in Relation to Trump Campaign Hack Charges
A federal grand jury has secretly approved an indictment related to the hacking of the Trump campaign, with the charges expected to be announced by the Department of Justice (DOJ) as soon as Friday. The names of the defendants and specific criminal charges are not immediately available, but the indictment, approved on Thursday afternoon, is the latest development in a high-profile case involving foreign interference in U.S. elections.
Both the DOJ and the Trump campaign declined to comment on the indictment.
Last month, the Trump campaign confirmed it had been hacked after several media outlets received internal campaign documents via an anonymous email account. The leaked materials included a research dossier on Sen. JD Vance, Trump’s running mate. The campaign blamed the breach on Iranian hackers. The accusation was supported by a Microsoft report dated August 8, which revealed that Iranian hackers had sent a spear-phishing email in June to a high-ranking official within the Trump campaign.
POLITICO reports U.S. security agencies released an “unusual” statement earlier this month indicating that the stolen materials from the Trump campaign had been sent to individuals linked to President Biden’s reelection team. However, the statement clarified that there is no evidence the recipients responded to the hacked information. This transfer of stolen campaign data underscores a broader concern about foreign interference in the U.S. electoral process.
Google’s cybersecurity division has also confirmed that Iranian hackers attempted to infiltrate Biden’s campaign but reported no success in those efforts.
The statement from U.S. security agencies highlights the growing threat from foreign actors, particularly Russia, Iran, and China, who are seeking to exploit divisions in American society during sensitive periods such as elections. “Russia, Iran, and China are trying by some measure to exacerbate divisions in U.S. society for their own benefit, and see election periods as moments of vulnerability,” the agencies said in their statement.
This case adds to a string of federal actions against foreign entities engaged in cyberattacks on U.S. political infrastructure, underscoring the persistent threat of foreign interference in American democracy.
In November, president-elect Donald Trump announced on social media that he would impose a 25% tariff on all products from Canada and Mexico if they do not take an active role in containing illegal immigration as well as the level of illicit drugs entering into the United States.
Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau met with Trump at his residence in Mar-a-Lago, after which the Canadian government vowed to secure the border. “We got, I think, a mutual understanding of what they’re concerned about in terms of border security,” Minister of Public Safety Dominic LeBlanc, who accompanied Trudeau at Mar-a-Largo, said of the meeting in an interview with Canadian media. “All of their concerns are shared by Canadians and by the government of Canada.”
“We talked about the security posture currently at the border that we believe to be effective, and we also discussed additional measures and visible measures that we’re going to put in place over the coming weeks,” LeBlanc continued. “And we also established, Rosemary, a personal series of rapport that I think will continue to allow us to make that case.”
The Daily Caller News Foundation reports the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) is preparing to beef up its immigration enforcement capabilities by hiring more staff, adding more vehicles and creating more processing facilities, in the chance that there is an immigration surge sparked by Trump’s presidential election victory. The moves are a change in direction from Trudeau’s public declaration in January 2017 that Canada was a “welcoming” country and that “diversity is our strength” just days after Trump was sworn into office the first time.
The Daily Caller notes the differences in response from the Canadian government verses Mexico’s:
Trudeau’s recent overtures largely differ from Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum, who has indicated she is not willing to bend the knee to Trump’s tariff threats. The Mexican leader in November said “there will be a response in kind” to any tariff levied on Mexican goods going into the U.S., and she appeared to deny the president-elect’s claims that she agreed to do more to beef up border security in a recent phone call.
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