Hackers tied to Iran preparing 'calculated smear campaign' on Trump, cyber agency says

[BumRushDaShow]

Source: Politico

07/01/2025 11:56 AM EDT


Hackers suspected of working for Iran are threatening to leak allegedly stolen data in a bid to undermine President Donald Trump, the nation’s top cybersecurity agency said Monday night.

Though the warning from the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency did not reference a specific foreign adversary, an agency spokesperson confirmed the hackers were suspected of working with Iran.

“A hostile foreign adversary is threatening to illegally exploit purportedly stolen and unverified material in an effort to distract, discredit and divide,” reads the statement attributed to Marci McCarthy, CISA’s director of public affairs. “This is a calculated smear campaign meant to damage President Trump and discredit honorable public servants who serve our country with distinction.”

The alleged hacking campaign comes as relations between the United States and Iran remain tense after the U.S. joined Israel in striking Iranian nuclear sites last month. A shaky U.S.-mediated ceasefire remains in place, and Trump previously signaled that diplomatic talks between Iran and the U.S. could resume as early as this week.

Read more: https://www.politico.com/news/2025/07/01/iran-hackers-trump-susie-wiles-00434892

[chicoescuela]

1. Yeah sure

[Roy Rolling]

46. Oh, don't

Please don’t smear Melanie’s husband. That would make him unhappy.

Oh, please. Don’t do it.

Or at least do it before July 4th, none of the GOP organized crime family deserves a vacation.

[Bayard]

2. That sounds like fun.

[58Sunliner]

4. Can you actually discredit a pathological rapist?

[slightlv]

28. Thats what I was thinking!

Everybody in the world knows how much of an evil demon trump actually is. How can you discredit a demon? It's not going to be news to anyone. Those who'd care can't do anything about it; those who'll sluff it off will discredit and demean the information. Only if it enables one or more people to take the law into their own hands will it make any difference.

Rather than leaking information on a known evil individual, I'd rather see the country take care of the "matter" themselves.

[JoseBalow]

5. Sounds like something good is fixing to drop

[Prairie Gates]

12. It's both stolen AND unverified

[Marie Marie]

34. Stolen Fake news...

[sprinkleeninow]

44. "Stollen"....yummy served during the winter bolidays.

🤪

[rampartd]

52. stolen and unverified

and how could it be worse than "nazi pedophile"

[dweller]

6. lol

bring it on




✌🏻

[taxi]

7. Okay fine. Is sliming an eel any different than sliming Trump?

One more layer isn't going to make an eel any sliprier or Trump any less corrupt.

[maspaha]

53. Be nice to eels

[Bettie]

8. What this actually sounds like to me

is that there is some more damning stuff coming out about him and his 'people' are trying to blame someone else and pretend it is not true.

[JoseBalow]

10. Precisely

His shtick is old and tired, and entirely predictable by now.

[evolves]

22. To those of us here.

The base still eats it up. They apparently love being lied to.

[Pachamama]

54. Ding ding ding

Exactly

[AStern]

9. I don't buy any of this.

[Prairie Gates]

11. Epstein files about to be leaked?

[slightlv]

29. I don't think the Epstein files

have any power to hurt trump or anyone else associated with them (unless those associated are dem). The entire republican party is waist deep in pedophiles and sexual perverts. And maga cultists just eat up the knowledge like ice cream. Maybe they're all incels and just live vicariously through trump. I dunno. But sexual perversion no longer rankles this crowd.

[eppur_se_muova]

13. I already got an anonymous email claiming Turnip has dozens of felony convictions.

I didn't pay much attention, since it was so obviously an incomplete list.




(Talk about an easy assignment. These guys could send out videos of Turnip's rally ""speeches"" and that would do it.)




((Because one pair of scare quotes just wasn't adequate, that's why.))

[11 Bravo]

14. How does one go about discrediting a walking, talking piece of shit?

[ToxMarz]

15. "discredit honorable public servants who serve our country with distinction"

Maybe they have hired DOGE, that seems to be their specialty.

Though Trump and his ilk won't need to worry if they really just target "honorable public servants who serve our country with distinction"

[Native]

16. Hurry up!

[Linda ladeewolf]

17. Maybe Iran got some goodies from Putie.

[33taw]

30. Or, Elon? Seems they are out of sorts the past few days.

[DENVERPOPS]

18. By the way............

Anyone know what happened to "ANONYMOUS" the white hat/good guys of hacking??? Haven't heard much of anything from them for years...

[BonnieJW]

48. The only thing they do

Is produce those grainy creepy videos warning everyone what they're going to do, and then disappear. It's bullshit.

[republianmushroom]

19. Well they have a lot to work with.

" preparing 'calculated smear campaign' on Trump," hell, just telling the truth about trump is not smear.

[mdbl]

20. Like I've said before, they don't give a shit

This administration is one big smear already and the idiocracy voted for it anyway. Do you think they care about any new revelations of already exposed vile behavior?

[Wonder Why]

21. Oxymoron - how can you smear DONkey? What can you claim he has done that he already has been charged with doing?

[Dan]

23. Don't have to smear Donald Trump, just tell the truth about Donald.

[Martin68]

24. My question is, how can they undermine Trump more than he has already undermined himself - and still maintained the

Congressional amd MAGAt support.

[EastBayGuy]

25. Delightful and then let Elon know it's time to shutdown that Starlink thing he setup for the White House...

[Jacson6]

26. What kind of ridiculus propaganda is this?

BRDS is not responsible for this he is just posting it.

[RockRaven]

27. If his ugly reality doesn't stick where it matters, and it doesn't, any Iranian fiction won't either.

But nice to know yet another federal security agency is carrying PR water for The Dotard.

[33taw]

31. The photo looks like they are members of the Iranian ICE team.

[karynnj]

32. What smear could be worse than many actual facts?

I can think of nothing that his base would hold against him. You already have religious evangelicals not caring that he is a twice divorced man who cheated on all of his wives, had sex with a prostitute, and is convicted of sexual assault. This in addition to running a fraudulent college and charity.

Then there was that attempted coup in 2020.

I know they will have those close to him vouching that this MAGA stuff is not really and his most private secret is that he was actually born "Donna" but his dad was so disappointed in Fred that he transitioned to please his dad ... And that is why he is publicly so antiLBQT.

[Figarosmom]

33. Leak it then

[Marie Marie]

35. Gee, too bad Trump and DOGE gutted cybersecurity down to the bare minimum.

[pandr32]

36. Bring it on!

[creeksneakers2]

37. If its sufficiently embarrassing

They'll go after anybody who publishes it or even posts it on the Internet. If it isn't a hoax, and it probably is, and Roger Stone is involved, there may well be crimes exposed.

[Figarosmom]

38. Theyve already waited too long for it to be a threat.

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Trump already mitigated it.

[Mz Pip]

39. Whatsver

Do or do not.
There is no “preparing to.”

[BidenRocks]

40. How do you smear a schmuck?

[PortTack]

41. JHC! All they have to do is tell the truth

[Brainfodder]

42. Please proceed.

[Initech]

43. Hey bring it!

[sprinkleeninow]

45. Huh? Discrediting honorable public servants? Hold up! We're still lookin' for them...🔭

Marci McCarthy, CISA’s director of public affairs: “This is a calculated smear campaign meant to damage President Trump and discredit honorable public servants who serve our country with distinction.”😝

[Irish_Dem]

47. In other words they will simply release the truth about Trump's many crimes.

[twodogsbarking]

49. Stabbed with his own sword.

[Javaman]

50. why threaten? I never got that. just do.

[Vinca]

51. Maybe they have the pee tape.

[Conjuay]

55. Jeez, he killed a million people his first time out,

did he set a new goal for this time?