The public warning by the FBI, Department of Homeland Security and Office of the Director of National Intelligence was issued because "the FBI has learned additional details about Iran's efforts to sow discord and shape the outcome of U.S. elections," the agencies said in a joint statement.

"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," the agencies said in a statement. "There is currently no information indicating those recipients replied. 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 Justice Department has been preparing charges in that breach, the Associated Press has reported.

At least the hypothetical from 2016 has now become reality. Instead of praising the release of criminally-gotten campaign information and broadcasting it in the worst possible light to hurt his opponent, Joe Biden - even when markedly behind in polls - engaged the FBI and never made use of what he was given.

What a selfless patriotic thing to do. Diamond Joe for the win.

These people are absolute cretins.

Karoline Leavitt, national press secretary for the Trump campaign, said the announcement by federal authorities "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," Leavitt told USA TODAY. "What did they know and when did they know it?"

At least Trumpers are consistent. They truly think that everyone else is corrupt as they are. The only thing Kamala Harris has used against Donald Trump is the truth about what he's said and his pathetic record of failures throughout his entire life, but more specifically in allowing Covid to sicken and kill millions more Americans than needed to be.