Harris team responds to revelation of stolen Trump docs sent to Biden camp
The Harris campaign addressed the revelation by federal agencies that individuals tied to the Biden campaign were targeted by Iranian actors with emails containing stolen Trump campaign materials, stating that they do not know of any materials sent “directly” to the Biden campaign, but that some people received emails on their personal accounts.
“We have cooperated with the appropriate law enforcement authorities since we were made aware that individuals associated with the then-Biden campaign were among the intended victims of this foreign influence operation,” Harris-Walz campaign spokesperson Morgan Finkelstein said in a statement.
“We’re not aware of any material being sent directly to the campaign; a few individuals were targeted on their personal emails with what looked like a spam or phishing attempt,” Finkelstein added. “We condemn in the strongest terms any effort by foreign actors to interfere in U.S. elections including this unwelcome and unacceptable malicious activity.”
In a joint statement released Wednesday, the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI), the FBI, and the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) said, “Iranian malicious cyber actors in late June and early July sent unsolicited emails to individuals then associated with President Biden’s campaign that contained an excerpt taken from stolen, non-public material from former President Trump’s campaign as text in the emails.”
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“There is currently no information indicating those recipients replied,” the statement continued. “Furthermore, Iranian malicious cyber actors have continued their efforts since June to send stolen, non-public material associated with former President Trump’s campaign to U.S. media organizations.”
The agencies said such “malicious cyber activity” served as the latest example of Iran’s multipronged approach “to stoke discord and undermine confidence in our electoral process.”
“As the lead for threat response, the FBI has been tracking this activity, has been in contact with the victims, and will continue to investigate and gather information in order to pursue and disrupt the threat actors responsible,” the statement said. “Foreign actors are increasing their election influence activities as we approach November. In particular, Russia, Iran, and China are trying by some measure to exacerbate divisions in U.S. society for their own benefit, and see election periods as moments of vulnerability.”
Trump in a new TRUTH Social post on Thursday demanded to know “WHEN DOES KAMALA AND HER CAMPAIGN GO BEFORE A GRAND JURY ON IRAN, IRAN, IRAN?”
“MY CAMPAIGN WHEN THROUGH HELL ON THE RUSSIA, RUSSIA, RUSSIA HOAX. THE BIG DIFFERENCE IS THAT THE IRAN/KAMALA CAMPAIGN CORRUPTION CASE IS REAL!” Trump added.
Karoline Leavitt, Trump’s campaign spokesperson, said the development “is further proof the Iranians are actively interfering in the election to help Kamala Harris and Joe Biden because they know President Trump will restore his tough sanctions and stand against their reign of terror.”
“Kamala and Biden must come clean on whether they used the hacked material given to them by the Iranians to hurt President Trump. What did they know and when did they know it?” she said in a statement.
A Harris campaign official told Fox News Digital that “the material was not used.”
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Federal authorities said they have thwarted Iranian assassination plots against U.S. politicians in recent months. U.S. officials say Trump, as well as President Biden and Nikki Haley, were among the targets. Earlier this week, a Pakistani man with deep ties to Iran was arraigned in Brooklyn federal court for alleging paying undercover agents he believed were hitmen to carry out the assassinations this summer.
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Within two months, Trump has faced two assassination attempts at a rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, and while golfing at his course in West Palm Beach, Florida, though authorities haven’t publicly linked either plot to Iran.
Israel launches attack after hacking terror group’s devices and causing them to explode
Israel launched a series of overnight strikes on sites in Lebanon where the Israeli military says Hezbollah terrorists operated. The strikes follow two waves of deadly electronic device explosions across Lebanon.
The Israeli strikes targeted infrastructure sites in southern Lebanon, including the areas of Chihine, Tayibe, Blida, Meiss El Jabal, Aitaroun and Kfarkela, Israel Defense Forces (IDF) said Thursday. Israel also struck a Hezbollah weapons storage facility in Khiam.
“The IDF will continue to operate against the threat of the Hezbollah terrorist organization in order to defend the State of Israel,” the IDF said in a statement.
The strikes followed two deadly waves of explosions across Lebanon in which electronic devices detonated in near-simultaneous explosions on Tuesday and Wednesday.
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Hundreds of pagers used by Hezbollah members exploded on Tuesday, killing 12 people, including two children, and wounding some 2,800 others.
Another wave of electronic devices detonated on Wednesday, killing at least 25 and wounding more than 450. Hezbollah officials said the devices included walkie-talkies and solar equipment.
Israel has largely been blamed for the two rounds of deadly blasts. The Israeli government has not commented on the explosions.
On Wednesday, a senior U.S. official confirmed to Fox News that Israel is behind the explosions of pagers used by members of Hezbollah in Lebanon.
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Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah addressed the deadly two-day attack on Thursday, saying the group is investigating.
“Yes, we were subjected to a huge and severe blow,” Nasrallah said. “The enemy crossed all boundaries and red lines. The enemy will face a severe and fair punishment from where they expect and don’t expect.”
“The enemy went beyond all controls, laws and morals,” he continued, adding the attacks “could be considered war crimes or a declaration of war.”
The Israeli military released another statement on Thursday, blaming Hezbollah for turning Lebanon into “a combat zone.”
“The Hezbollah terrorist organization has turned southern Lebanon into a combat zone. For decades, Hezbollah has weaponized civilian homes, dug tunnels beneath them, and used civilians as human shields,” Israel’s military said.
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The explosions that rocked Lebanon have deepened concerns about an escalation into an all-out war between Israel and Hezbollah.
NFL team responds after security guard forces woman to throw MAGA hat in trash
The Arizona Cardinals have apologized to a woman who was told she had to remove a “Make America Great Again” hat in order to enter State Farm Stadium for the team’s game against the Los Angeles Rams on Sunday.
The team confirmed it has reached out to the woman in a statement to Fox News Digital on Wednesday.
“In an isolated incident at Sunday’s game, a stadium security member misunderstood a policy on prohibited items. Like most venues, ‘signage, posters, flags, or displays that are….political in nature’ are not permitted. However, that did not apply in this instance. Moving forward we will work to provide clarity to all stadium personnel in these situations. We have also reached out to the individual involved to communicate that their experience was not consistent with our policies and practices and to apologize for that,” the statement read.
The woman, an Arizona native and Cardinals season ticket holder, was named Susan Rosener. She and her husband were on their way to their seats to see the Cardinals’ surprising 41-10 win over the Rams, before a stadium staffer mistakenly told her to take off her hat baring the famous slogan of former President Trump’s election campaign, according to multiple reports.
“You can’t bring that in here,” the staffer said, according to Rosener, via News 12 Phoenix.
“She’s like, ‘No political hats or shirts.’ And I said, ‘I haven’t heard that at all.’ And I said, ‘That doesn’t make sense to me.’ And she goes, ‘I said, Take your hat off,'” Rosener said. “In retrospect, I wish I would have stood my ground a little bit, but I wasn’t sure what the repercussions would be, and my husband would kill me if I did something with the season tickets or that jeopardizes them somehow.”
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The incident was initially publicized in a post on X by Turning Point Action Field Rep. VP Alyssa Goncales, who also posted alleged screenshots of text messages with other supposed attendees who were either also forced to remove MAGA hats or witnessed others being forced to.
“We have only heard from one individual. But if there were a couple others that had a similar interaction that should not have happened either. Again, it’s not our practice and in the 18+ seasons we’ve been in this stadium, it apparently has never occurred previously. Moving forward, though, we will work with all of the third party groups that interact with our fans to make sure this abundantly clear,” the team said in another statement to Fox News Digital in response to the other allegations.
While the Cardinals do have a list of banned items for entering State Farm Stadium on game days, “political hats or shirts” are not on that list.
Sunday’s incident is not the first time that an American sporting event attendee carrying pro-Trump merchandise had to face orders from security.
In the spring and summer of 2021, a man was removed from MLB games at Yankee Stadium, Fenway Park and Citizens Bank Park for hanging banners from the stands that read “Trump Won! Save America!” The man, Dion Cini, now a conservative political influencer on X, posted bodycam footage of his police escorts out of the stadiums multiple times.
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On June 27 of that year, Cini posted images on X (then known as Twitter) of an alleged letter from MLB informing him that he had been barred from MLB games until further notice.
Cini commented on the recent incident involving Rosener in an interview with Fox News Digital on Wednesday.
“That’s just the country that we’ve become, and the fact that she did it and put it in a can is the reason why they asked her to do it, because they know that she would probably comply. And that basically sums up the whole state of America right now,” Cini said. “You’d have to kill me for me to take off my MAGA hat without force! I’ve never taken off my MAGA hat for anybody.”
Arizona is considered one of the “sunbelt” battleground states in the upcoming election, as Trump won the state in 2016 but lost it in 2020.
A Fox News election survey published on Aug. 28 shows that VP Harris currently leads the former president by less than 1 point.
In the Arizona Senate race, Democrat Ruben Gallego leads Republican Kari Lake by 56%-41%. Democrat Jacky Rosen bests Republican Sam Brown by 55%-41% in the Nevada Senate race. In the North Carolina gubernatorial race, Democrat Josh Stein tops Republican Mark Robinson by 54%-43%.
In the aftermath of Rosener’s incident, Lake has called on every Cardinals fan to wear MAGA hats to the team’s home games for the remainder of the season.
“Every [Cardinals] fan who loves America should wear their MAGA hat to EVERY AZ Cardinals game this season,” Lake wrote in a post on X in response to a story on the incident.
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Meanwhile, concerns in the state that illegal immigrants may be able to cast votes in the upcoming election have become rampant over the current cycle.
A “coding oversight” in state software is calling into question the citizenship status of 100,000 registered Arizona voters, prompting the state’s Democratic secretary of state to insist he will send out ballots to those affected anyway.
“I am unwilling to disenfranchise this many voters by limiting them, suddenly, and with little notice, to a federal-only ballot when none of them had actual notice of or blame for this issue,” Secretary of State Adrian Fontes said during a Tuesday news conference. “We inherited this problem. We’re on it, and we’re going to fix it. It’s as simple as that.”
Trump admits he used to like Howard Stern and the shock jock’s show — until now
Former President Trump said SiriusXM radio host Howard Stern’s ratings have “gone down the tubes” since the shock jock “went woke.”
Trump appeared on Fox News’ “Gutfeld!” on Wednesday, where he was asked about surviving a pair of assassination attempts, the ABC Presidential Debate and criticism he receives from celebrities, among other topics. Host Greg Gutfeld played a video of Stern, George Clooney and others who have disparaged him in the past, including when the SiriusXM radio host said he hated Trump supporters.
“I know some of them, like Howard, I was on Howard Stern as much as anybody, and he was great at that time, and then he went woke,” Trump told Gutfeld.
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“Since he’s gone woke his ratings have gone down the tubes, and he sort of went anti-Trump for a couple of reasons, but I was on his show a lot,” the former president continued. “He has a best of, the best of Howard Stern, I don’t want to promote it, necessarily, but I was there for just about all of them.”
Trump said he used to have “good shows” with Stern, but those days are over.
“He’s changed, and he doesn’t do the ratings anymore,” Trump said.
SiriusXM did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
Last weekend, Stern made headlines by declaring that he has “no respect” for Trump supporters.
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“I don’t agree with Trump politically, I don’t think he should be anywhere near the White House. I don’t hate the guy. I hate the people who vote for him. I think they’re stupid. I do. I’ll be honest with you, I have no respect for you,” Stern said on “The Howard Stern Show.”
The radio shock jock said he doesn’t mind losing “half my listeners” who disagree with his political views, adding that he anticipates “hate mail” from those that support Trump.
Stern’s disdain for Trump voters isn’t new. He expressed a similar sentiment before the 2020 election, remarking at the time, “I don’t hate Donald. I hate you for voting for him, for not having intelligence. For not being able to see what’s going on with the coronavirus, for not being able to see what the Justice Department is doing. I hate you. I don’t want you here.”
Stern has said he takes being called “woke” as a compliment.
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Trump meets young supporter with rare brain disorder, brings him ‘the best present’
UNIONDALE, N.Y. – The family of an 8-year-old boy who received the surprise of his young life when former President Trump greeted him in person during his rally Wednesday in New York welcomed the surprise in their first public remarks on the matter.
Liam, who has a rare brain disorder, recently received a happy birthday letter from Trump just before he turned 8 – and his reaction to the surprise went viral.
“It’s a pipe dream, I can never imagine, to thank the world for helping my son come this far and showing support and making his dream come true, because, believe it or not, this is definitely probably one of his big dreams, to meet Donald Trump, his hero since he was probably born. If not, very close,” Liam’s dad said, choking back tears.
Doctors warned the family Liam might never walk, talk or eat on his own, according to his mother, Siobhan.
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“My buddy here plays ice hockey, he does roller hockey, he does very good in school, plays sports…we’re so proud of him,” she told Fox News Digital in an interview moments before Trump’s rally at Nassau Veterans Memorial Coliseum in Uniondale near the family’s Long Island home.
She said he has been a Trump supporter since he was 18 months old.
After receiving the letter, Liam’s family was invited to Trump’s Unidondale rally as VIP guests, where they sat three rows from the candidate’s stage and Liam received an even bigger birthday gift — meeting the Republican presidential nominee.
“I’m supposed to be on that stage, but that doesn’t matter because I got you the best present,” video shows Trump telling Liam in a private meeting before walking out before a capacity crowd at Nassau Veterans Memorial Coliseum in Undiondale. “This is the best present you’ll ever have.”
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Trump handed Liam a box and said “in there is real good stuff.”
“We’re gonna have that picture for life, you and I,” Trump told Liam after taking a photo.
Trump thanked Liam and his family for joining him.
“Take care of yourself, okay? I wish I looked like that or if I looked like that, I’d be president,” Trump told Liam.
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‘Trump 2024!” Liam added.
Trump also gave Liam and his family a shout-out during the rally, telling the crowd about Liam’s bravery and their visit while pointing him out from stage while the crowd erupted in applause.
“I’m in tears,” Liam’s mom told Fox News Digital.
The original viral video, which caught national attention, showed Liam eagerly opening an envelope with a letter addressed to him from the former president.
“This is a side of Donald Trump that nobody gets to see,” said Kevin Smith, who shared the original video before it blew up online. “Most Americans, he said, only see Trump’s public persona and widespread media coverage.”
The video opens with Liam sitting on a couch as his mom hands over the envelope. She asks if he wants to read the letter or have her read it, as he fights back tears realizing what is happening.
“Dear Liam, Happy birthday, Mrs. Trump, and I hope you enjoy this special occasion surrounded by the love of your family and friends,” Liam’s mom, Siobhan reads.
“We are so encouraged by the strength and determination you have shown throughout your life and send our love and best wishes to you as you continue to fight,” the letter continued. “Remember you are never alone, and we are keeping you in our thoughts and prayers for continued care and good health. May God bless you and your family, stay strong.”
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Siobhan then mentions that Trump knew Liam’s birthday was coming up and asked him how he felt about him wishing him a happy birthday.
“Sincerely, can you tell me who signed that?” Siobhan asks.
“Donald Trump,” Liam responds shakily, holding back tears.
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“He knew it was your birthday coming up? What do you say to him,” Siobhan asks.
“Thank you, I love you,” Liam says while also signing “I love you.”
FLASHBACK: High-profile Democrats have had their fair share of collaborations with rapper Sean “Diddy” Combs, whom federal authorities have charged with sex trafficking, racketeering conspiracy and more in a disturbing indictment unsealed Tuesday.
Vice President Kamala Harris, former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, New York Mayor Eric Adams and former President Barack Obama have all been connected to the “Hello Good Morning” artist for Democratic causes over the years. Combs has been one of the major celebrities backing Democrats throughout his career.
In 2020, Harris, – now the Democratic frontrunner in the 2024 race – thanked Combs for hosting a political town hall about COVID-19.
“There’s a lot at stake for our communities right now and it’s critical we bring to the forefront how coronavirus is perpetuating racial inequality and health disparities,” Harris wrote on X.
Combs also played a crucial role in engaging young voters for Democrats at the 2004 Democratic National Convention, where he interviewed young delegates and Democrat lawmakers – including Obama and Clinton – for MTV.
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In 2008, just days before the election, Combs made a last effort to court Black voters for Obama’s presidential campaign at a Democratic event – dubbed the “Last Chance For Change Rally” – in Fort Lauderdale, Florida.
In 2020, Combs endorsed then-candidate Joe Biden for president and launched the “Political Black Party” while saying that “White men like Trump need to be banished” in a podcast interview with Charlamagne tha God.
Combs was awarded the key to New York City in September 2023, only to return it later at Mayor Adams’ request following the release of a 2016 video allegedly showing the rapper assaulting his ex-girlfriend, singer Cassie. Adams informed Combs of the key’s rescission in a letter, and the key was returned to the city on June 10.
Combs was part of a group of dozens of Black individuals who sent a letter to Biden in August 2020 urging him to select a Black vice presidential candidate, which appeared to reference reports that then-Sen. Harris was too “ambitious” to be his choice, The Hill reported.
Combs has appeared with former President Donald Trump in photos in the past, primarily at galas and other apolitical celebrity functions.
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Combs pleaded not guilty after appearing in a Manhattan courtroom for his arraignment Tuesday. He was arrested Monday by federal agents based on a sealed indictment, the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York confirmed.
The rapper was charged with racketeering conspiracy, sex trafficking by force, fraud or coercion, and transportation to engage in prostitution in the indictment unsealed earlier Tuesday.
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Authorities claimed Combs ran a criminal enterprise through his businesses, including Bad Boy Entertainment, Combs Enterprises and Combs Global, among others. He used “violence, use of firearms, threats of violence, coercion, and verbal, emotional, physical, and sexual abuse” to fulfill his sexual desires, according to the unsealed indictment obtained by Fox News Digital.
Combs engaged his victims in “physical, emotional, and verbal abuse” in order to force them into participating in the “freak offs,” the court docs read. Combs would also supply drugs to the sex workers and female victims to facilitate sexual encounters.
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“Freak Offs were elaborate and produced sex performances that Combs arranged, directed, masturbated during, and often electronically recorded,” authorities stated. Combs often provided IV fluids to his victims following “freak offs” to recover from physical exertion and drug use, the indictment read.
During raids on Combs’ home in March, authorities seized “freak off supplies” along with three AR-15s with defaced serial numbers, the court docs stated. The feds took “cases and cases of the kinds of personal lubricant and baby oil that Combs’ staff allegedly used to stock hotel rooms for the freak offs – more than 1,000 bottles altogether,” Williams said at a press conference.
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Fox News Digital’s requests for comment sent to Clinton, Obama, Adams and Harris were not returned before publication.
When reached for comment, a White House spokesperson referred Fox News Digital to press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre’s statements during Tuesday’s press briefing. “Look, it’s an ongoing — ongoing situation, legal matter. I would have to refer you to the Department of Justice. Everything, kind of, is happening today. And so, I’m just — we just don’t comment on ongoing legal matter. I’m not going to do that from here. So, I’m going to leave it there.”