As always, thanks for the info and link. Couple of things. First, I haven't downloaded and read the actual dossier. It's 271 pages and a little too much for a Friday morning (it might keep Noir busy until our Nation's next birthday). My only concern is the spin and lack of context with how the media will use it. There are examples galore that you yourself have parroted (Charlottesville, dictator, bloodbath, and so on) and now that it's been placed "out there" the normal media types will have no reason to resist the normal urge to attack Orange/Vance.@pooponduke somebody finally has gone public with the Trump campaign hacked file
Read the JD Vance Dossier
We’re publishing the supposed Iran-hacked document. Here’s why.www.kenklippenstein.com
Funny side note is that free-speech advocate (har har) Elon Musk deleted this guy's Twitter acct when he posted a link to the article.
Second, I don't know that this guy really explains a good reason for doing this "reveal" when everyone else obviously made the decision to not publish this material. Seems "Robert" kept pushing the info out there until he/they found someone willing to do so. This is not earth shattering stuff and it appears to be all things we knew about Vance that the media has already covered. I really think this guy did this for two reasons. The biggest is he's the "journalist" version of Andy Katz from the bball world. He's driving hits and makes his living on Substack, so he needs them. His other motivation is he's a hater (and appears to be a jerk).
I looked him up. He started off at the Young Turks, has worked at The Nation, and The Intercept before doing Substack. Not exactly a murders' row of high level, neutral journalism. More importantly, he fancies himself as a bit of an anti-government/anti-establishment exposer. Which, you know, I can appreciate, but he's not always done it in a straight, high level integrity manner, and has attacked some from the angle of an "influencer" type of tactics. For example, he apparently has done numerous "pranks" on twiiter/X where he entices someone relevant to repost something he puts up, and when they do, he changes his screen name to attack that person. That's the kind of thing we see here, not from a serious journalist.
His mom's family were criminals. Woops, for all the soft, revisionist, dishonest libs here, I meant to say undocumented immigrants from El Salvador. He's no fan of Trump and Vance, so you'll have to forgive me if I don't believe he did any of this for virtuous reasons. He posted this for hits and gets to attack them in the process. It's a win/win.
Regarding your side note, Elon has been one of the people he picked a fight with in the past. So, it's no shock that they are viewing this as violating their policies. Mess with the bull, you get the horns. What would be funny is if he tries to post it on TruthSocial.