Former President Donald Trump He recently took to social media to claim that Vice President Kamala Harris' team had obtained information stolen from the Trump campaign by Iranian hackers and was “illegally spying.”
Verdict: No evidence
Iranian hackers sent information to members of the then-Biden campaign (now the Harris campaign), but there is currently no evidence that the Harris campaign received any materials.
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Former President Donald Trump posted a message on Truth Social alleging that the Harris campaign had received information stolen from the Trump campaign by Iranian spies. The message was posted late Wednesday night and has been reposted more than 13,000 times.
The post reads, “Wow it just came out! The FBI caught Iran spying on my campaign and giving all that information to the Kamala Harris campaign, which means she and her campaign were illegally spying on me. This will be known as the Iran Iran Iran incident! Will Kamala retire from politics in disgrace? Will the Communist Left choose a new candidate to replace her?”
This claim is without merit. The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI), and the Cybersecurity Intelligence Agency (CISA) have: statement “Malicious Iranian cyber actors sent unsolicited emails between late June and early July to individuals then associated with President Biden's campaign that contained excerpts of non-public materials stolen from former President Trump's campaign,” the report said.
CBS News The report said there was no evidence that anyone from the Biden campaign responded to or received any information from those messages. The Harris campaign also acknowledged that some individuals received the unsolicited messages, but that the Harris campaign did not receive them. “Spam and phishing scams” Fox News. (Related: Did J.D. Vance Track Trump Assassinations on Social Media?)
A joint statement from ODNI, CISA and the FBI said “at this time, we have no information to indicate that the recipient has responded.” The statement also said the information was sent to a media organization and that “Russia, Iran and China seek to exacerbate divisions in American society in some way for their own national interests and view election periods as a vulnerable time.”
There is no evidence that the Harris campaign is “illegally spying” on the Trump campaign. Check Your Fact has reached out to the Harris campaign and the Trump campaign for comment.