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Read the JD Vance Dossier We’re publishing the supposed Iran-hacked document. Here’s why. Ken Klippenstein Sep 26, 2024 https://www.kenklippenstein.com/p/read-the-jd-vance-dossier Photo by Matthew Hatcher/Getty Images We publish what others won’t. Subscribe to support our work and for updates on this breaking story. Type your email... Subscribe Behold the dossier. It reportedly comes from an alleged Iranian government hack of the Trump campaign, and since June, the news media has been sitting on it (and other documents), declining to publish in fear of finding itself at odds with the government’s campaign against “foreign malign influence.” I disagree. The dossier has been offered to me and I’ve decided to publish it because it’s of keen public interest in an election season. It’s a 271-page research paper the Trump campaign prepared to vet now vice presidential candidate J.D. Vance. As far as I can tell, it hasn’t been altered, but even if it was, its contents are publicly verif...

Hypocrisy, Spinelessness, and the Triumph of Donald Trump 2KThe Atlantic by Mark Leibovich / Sep 9, 2024 at 5:33 AM//keep unread//hide Feedly AI found 1 Company (Fiserv) https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2024/10/trump-gop-support-jd-vance-2024/679564/ See Insights Card Illustrations by Ben Hickey This article was featured in the One Story to Read Today newsletter. Sign up for it here. In the summer of 2015, back when he was still talking to traitorous reporters like me, I spent extended stretches with Donald Trump. He was in the early phase of his first campaign for president, though he had quickly made himself the inescapable figure of that race—as he would in pretty much every Republican contest since. We would hop around his various clubs, buildings, holding rooms, limos, planes, golf carts, and mob scenes, Trump disgorging his usual bluster, slander, flattery, and obvious lies. The diatribes were exhausting and disjointed. But I was struck by one theme that Trump ke...