Morgan Wright, a former State Department counterterrorism adviser, said Sunday on “Fox & Friends Weekend” that the possibility of foreign hacking of the Trump campaign is “something we're going to have to accept going forward.”
The campaign of 2024 Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump accused “foreign sources hostile to the United States” of stealing the information and providing it to Politico starting in late July. Exit Reported.
Wright told Fox News co-host Will Cain that the hack was “clearly political” and “designed to damage” the Republican candidate, pointing to the fact that stolen information from the Trump campaign was sent to Politico.
“When you look at international crime groups like ransomware groups, it's all about the money. They're not going to get involved in this,” Wright said.
The Trump team Microsoft Intelligence Report The report, released Friday, alleges that hackers with ties to the Iranian military “sent spear-phishing emails to senior presidential campaign officials” in June. Wright noted the close timing of the Microsoft report's release and news of the attack. (RELATED: Szabo: Biden's cybersecurity failures put Americans at risk and criminals are roaming free
“The Director of National Intelligence, the DNI and Microsoft came out with a report a few days ago that senior members of the presidential campaign were targeted in a spear-phishing attack,” Wright told his Fox News co-hosts. “That's significant because it means that they identified specific individuals who either had a relationship or would have agreed to open documents and put in PDFs and links. And that's how the initial breach occurred.”
“This is something we're going to have to embrace going forward,” Wright said, “in this election and every election going forward.”
Earlier this year, the US reportedly had intelligence indicating that the Iranian government was plotting to assassinate Trump, prompting the Secret Service to step up security for the former president.
Trump was the victim of an assassination attempt at a rally in Butler, Pennsylvania on July 13, with a bullet grazed his ear.
