Iran’s cyberattack on Trump campaign: Stefanik slams FBI for ‘election interference’ to help Democrats

New York Rep. Elise Stefanik claimed the FBI is “covering up” Iranians. election interference to give the Democrats a ‘clinch’.

Stefanik, a Republican, told Fox News Digital that the FBI is asking “very basic, easy” questions about the agency’s knowledge of the Trump campaign’s Iran-linked hack, in which data was then given to the Biden campaign and the mainstream media news were passed on, stopped. sockets.

“I believe there was a politicization by the Biden-Kamala Harris administration that they were briefed prior to the Trump campaign to tip the balance,” she alleged. “The FBI has functioned as an arm of the Democratic Party.”

The Trump campaign claimed in August that it had been hacked by Iran. In September the Department of Justice (DOJ) confirmed that Iran had hacked the campaign and charged three Iranian nationals for their alleged role in the scheme.

On September 19, the FBI held a private briefing with Stefanik and other members of the Intelligence Committee on foreign election interference. During the briefing, Stefanik said FBI officials appeared “panicked” when she questioned them but promised to provide answers.

After the briefing, Stefanik wrote to FBI Director Christopher Wray demanding answers by October 7.

The FBI then said it would provide answers during an in-person briefing, Stefanik said. They then promised written answers – which never came.

Stefanik has demanded to know when and how the FBI knew about the Trump campaign’s Iranian hack, when the FBI notified both campaigns of the hack, whether the FBI knew who was responsible for passing on the information to the media and the Biden or Harris campaigns and whether the FBI had used Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act to listen in on conversations related to the hack.

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The hackers had created fake email accounts and pretended to be current or former US officials and then duped them Trump campaign staff using spear phishing to click on emails allegedly containing malware.

She said the FBI could reveal such information without hampering any investigation or revealing sources or classified information.

“I am one of the longest-serving members of the House Intelligence Committee. If the FBI won’t answer questions, it’s because you discovered something and they’re hiding something. They are corrupt to the core.”

Fox News Digital has contacted the FBI for comment.

Stefanik also raised the issue in an op-ed published in the Wall Street Journal.

“It is my duty to share with the American people what the FBI has failed to answer – and, in my opinion, is deliberately covering up – about Iranian influence in the 2024 presidential election.”

Numerous intelligence reports have revealed that US enemies such as Iran and Russia and China have attempted to interfere in the November elections.

In September, Trump’s campaign said intelligence officials warned the Republican candidate about “real and specific threats from Iran to kill him.”

A report from the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI), released Tuesday, found that “Iran’s efforts to assassinate former President Donald Trump and other former U.S. officials” are likely to continue after the voting ends, regardless of the outcome.

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The report definitively stated that Iran favors Vice President Kamala Harris and will focus its efforts on stopping Trump, and that Russia favors Trump and will continue to attack Harris.

A Microsoft report found Last week, hackers affiliated with the Iranian government searched election websites in swing states for vulnerabilities.

Last week, Iran built a fake online persona known as “Bushnell’s Men” calling on American voters to postpone the election because of both candidates’ support of Israel’s military operations, the report found.

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Both Trump and his senior officials who ordered the attack that killed General Qassem Soleimani in 2020 have received death threats from Iran.

After the initial briefing, Stefanik demanded to know when and how the FBI learned of the Trump campaign’s Iranian hack, when the FBI notified both campaigns of the hack, or whether the FBI knew who was responsible for passing on the information to the media and the Biden or Harris campaigns and whether the FBI had used Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act to listen in on conversations related to the hack.