Elon Musk suspends reporter who published JD Vance dossier

Journalist Ken Klippenstein's

“Here is the dossier that the media didn’t want to publish,” Klippenstein previously wrote in a post.

Klippenstein, a former Intercept reporter, posted the dossier on his Substack website about three hours before Thursday's account suspension. At the time of publishing this article it was still available to view.

“The dossier was offered to me and I decided to publish it because it is of great public interest in an election season,” Klippenstein wrote. “It is a 271-page research paper prepared by the Trump campaign to vet current vice presidential nominee JD Vance. As far as I can tell, it hasn't been changed, but even if it had been, its contents would be publicly verifiable. I will.” Let it speak for itself.

Newsweek I emailed Klippenstein and X for comment but did not receive a response in time for publication.

The dossier reviews personal information about Vance, his campaign finances during his Senate run, voting records, military records, business records, and his “anti-Trump record and ties to the establishment.”

It contains information that says Vance was “one of the main blockers of U.S. efforts to provide aid to Ukraine” and “has criticized public health experts and elected officials for supporting the Black Lives Matter protests while anti-crime.” lockdown measures.” [Covid] Protests.”

The dossier also says that Vance “previously criticized the idea of ​​a southern border wall,” called illegal immigration a “money issue,” and that he “opposed Trump's Muslim ban.”

Newsweek has reached out to former President Donald Trump and Vance's campaign for comment

The dossier also mentions Vance's wife, Usha, who worked for Kavanaugh.

The FBI announced in July that Iran had allegedly separately plotted to kill the former president. Federal officials later announced that Iran had hacked and stolen sensitive information from the Trump campaign.

Iranian officials denied any involvement in a plot to assassinate Trump, calling the hacking allegations “baseless and baseless.”

“Such allegations are baseless and baseless,” Iran's mission to the United Nations said in a statement shared with Newsweek. “As we have previously announced, the Islamic Republic of Iran has no intention or motive to interfere in the US presidential election.

In August, the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI), the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), and the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) noted “increasingly aggressive Iranian activity during this election cycle, particularly including influence operations targeting the American public .” and cyber operations targeting presidential campaigns.”

“This includes the recently reported activities conducted by the IC to interfere with former President Trump’s election campaign [intelligence community] Attributions to Iran,” the statement said.

Senator Lindsey Graham told Fox News' Jesse Watters Primetime that Iran should “pay a price” for allegedly targeting Trump and trying to “undermine” the 2024 presidential election.

Klippenstein said the intelligence community would not confirm whether the Vance dossier was part of the stolen campaign materials.

The documents come from a person Klippenstein called “Robert” and who told the journalist that his motives for publishing the documents “play no role.”

“Let the media and the authorities continue with their own assumptions and nonsense.” [sic]said Klippenstein. “Robert” told him. “I just want to bring some light into the dark room.”