I'm perpetually out of the loop. Did Trump's emails get leaked?
this post was submitted on 14 Aug 2024
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If I’m tracking properly, they got hacked and then the internal data was given to the media, and the media hasn’t released anything. Because it benefits them to support Trump.
That's wild. Any idea what media outlet specifically it was leaked to?
Politico, the New York Times, and the Washington Post it seems.
https://apnews.com/article/trump-vance-leak-media-wikileaks-e30bdccbdd4abc9506735408cdc9bf7b
I wonder why it wasn’t sent to wikileaks?
Isn't Wikileaks Russian?
So they were already cc’d on them.
Yes and no; technically they're an independent entity but they've been used as useful idiots by Russian intelligence so many times at this point they're effectively Russian
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Cuz they would have sat on it
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But I thought it was Iran that hacked Trump. Surely they have media that can make this info available.
No, that makes sense. They have the time and energy to hack the Trump campaign email servers. But somehow lack the ability to make that information public. Yeah, that makes much more sense.
Yesterday there was speculation that it was an internal leak, not a foreign country. Remember that Trump's entire staff lies constantly.
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No, they specifically didn’t get leaked. And that’s the story. Trump’s team got hacked, and the hackers sent the emails to the news outlets. The outlets protected Trump, and refused to publish the emails.
Which is in stark contrast to what happened when Hillary’s emails got sent to the news outlets. The outlets were clambering to be the first to publish them.
Almost as if the outlets have a strong bias…
Do you have a link to where the news outlets published them?
They didn't, WikiLeaks did
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Lock them emails up came the cry from the C suite and the editor asked what he should run instead.
I worked in small and medium sized print media for a few decades. Very loosely around 1998 you’d still see the newest, greenest, most eager-to-please editor be able to tell the owner or C’s to fuck right off if there was an attempt to break the wall between the money and the news. It was just assumed and known really - because while few examples happened, for the most part management or money would never even think of doing it.
By the early 2000s, while print was still king and only just preparing to completely fuck up internet advertising and kill the industry, the wall cracked a bit. “It’s the beginning of the end” many would say while others said they were just ads on the front above the fold. The former was correct.
And now we have a media landscape run by the money, for the money.
WIKILEAKS released Hilary's emails. Not the media.
WikiLeaks is a shell now, almost non-existent. For years it's been little more than a Twitter account, but even that hasn't posted since June.
False. The Clinton emails were first released under FOIA by the State Department, not by WikiLeaks. You're mixing it up with the Podesta and DNC email archives, which incidentally contained dirt on Trump as well.
Thanks Dwight
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Much like wikileaks, media outlets claim to be impartial third parties and have annoynmous drop boxes for whistleblowers.
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Jesus Christ, I can't believe how dense people are being about this. First of all, they weren't Hillary Clinton's emails, they were John Podesta's emails. Second of all, and more importantly, the, "Mainstream Political Media," didn't publish those emails, Wikileaks did.
In 2016, Russian hackers got Podesta's emails, Wikileaks published them, and the media reported on them once they were already exposed. In 2024, Wikileaks is functionally dead, so Iranian hackers sent them directly to mainstream media outlets. Mainstream outlets don't want to deal with the legal issues associated with releasing hacked information, so they sit on them.
This isn't some conspiracy by the media to ensure Trump wins. This is a direct result of 20+ of allowing our government to persecute whistleblowers and leakers.
I disagree, the "media" is trying to get trump elected. When I say media, I mean 80% of the mainstream publications. Some are insanely left, so much so that it looks like a parody (looking at you Huffington Post). But here is why I suspect that is so:
- Trump is great for getting outrage clicks from all sides. The people who love him, to see the liberal tears. And the people who hate him because they're worried about America's future and are actually crying.
- They are mostly owned and/or ran by the 1%. See here. https://sh.itjust.works/post/20890256 They're probably being promised tax breaks and lots of other shit. They forget that no one wants to live in a 1% utopia of either being their slaves or living in a rich HOA with libertarians as the president.
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Was trump found to be running a private email server for government classified business? Because that's what the issue with Hilary was. As much as I despise trump, the situation isn't equivalent. Also, WikiLeaks leaked Hillary's emails, not the media. Basically everything stated in the original post is incorrect.
Nah, he just had a bunch of classified government documents stashed in a bathroom.
Which he should have gone to prison for.
Right, but that's not related to these emails as far as anyone knows.
If I recall that case was dismissed without prejudice, which means they can fix the bullshit issue Judge Cannon came up with to delay things, re-indict him and ideally convict his ass. Can't use executive privilege as a defense (no matter how strained) for shit you do after you leave office. That'll kick up a mountain of idiots on Xitter screaming about "double jeopardy" despite not knowing how any of that works though.
Assuming of course he doesn't get reelected and pardon himself or some equally absurd bullshit.
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No, you're thinking of GW Bush
https://www.newsweek.com/2016/09/23/george-w-bush-white-house-lost-22-million-emails-497373.html
Trump just had his daughter and son in law do it for him
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/22/us/politics/jared-kushner-ivanka-trump-private-emails.html
Like I said to someone else here already:
False. The Clinton emails were first released under FOIA by the State Department, not by WikiLeaks. You're mixing it up with the Podesta and DNC email archives, which incidentally contained dirt on Trump as well.
If Trump knew how to use email, you know he'd be sending classified information from his yahoo account.
You're correct about Wikileaks, but you are conflating the scandal around Hillary's emails (she maintained a private email server while she was Secretary of State, and deleted many of those emails when she was meant to retain them) with the Podesta emails (which the user in the image incorrectly identifies as Hillary's emails). The hacking of Podesta's emails is actually very similar to the hack of the Trump campaign, except there's no Wikileaks or equivalent organization willing to publish them this time.
Ah, okay. Then thanks for correcting me. There are too many fucked up shenanigans to keep track of these days.
Easy mistake, especially when it all gets conflated to, "But her emails!"
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Eh, that's about par for the course at this point...
LoL, for as much as you "despise trump", you sure feel compelled to "defend" him by creating your own false equivalence, getting the facts wrong, and by ignoring the entirety of actions Trump and his family committed while in office. It's almost like you don't really despise him at all...
I'm not defending him, I'm saying we need to be better. There are enough valid criticisms, like millions of them. We don't need to make false equivalencies.
Idiot Junior tweeted his own e-mails where the campaign arranged Russian interference for sanctions relief, and it got lost under the ten thousand other high crimes, treasonous acts, and outright efforts toward a coup d'etat.
Any news that doesn’t publish his emails is not fair or balanced.
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