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The former US President’s campaign headquarters Donald Trump said on Saturday that “some of his communications” had been “hacked.” and suggested that Iranian hackers were behind the alleged attack, which was seen as an attempt to interfere with the November presidential election.

The alleged “hack” was initially reported by the portal. Political, who assured that In July, he began receiving anonymous emails containing internal documents. campaign of the Republican candidate for the White House, among which was a dossier on the magnate’s chosen vice presidential candidate, Senator J.D. Vance.

“These documents were illegally obtained from foreign sources hostile to the United States, with the intent to interfere in the 2024 election and harm our entire democratic process,” Trump campaign spokesman Steven Cheung said in statements released Bloomberg.

Chung based his accusations on a report released by Microsoft later this week denounce that “Iran’s increasing intent is to influence this year’s US presidential election,” using, among other things, “fake news sites to influence voter opinion and ‘hacks’ to obtain intelligence on political campaigns.”

While Microsoft’s letter did not specifically mention the campaign, it did link the alleged computer hacking to “groups associated with the Iranian government” According to Chung, it “hacked the account of a ‘senior official’ in the US presidential campaign in June 2024, which coincided with the deadline for President Trump to select a vice presidential candidate.”

In the same vein, a Republican representative noted that there are recent reports of an Iranian plot to end the life of the former presidentIn addition to the July 13 assassination attempt in Pennsylvania, it was part of a “broader pattern of threats against former Trump administration officials stemming from the January 2020 killing of Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps chief Qassem Soleimani.”