The Department of Justice has announced that they are preparing to file criminal charges for the hacking of Donald Trump’s campaign that was done by the country of Iran. The only problem is that the DOJ doesn’t know who they are even going to indict. Mike Papantonio & Farron Cousins discuss more.
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Mike Papantonio: The Department of Justice has announced that they’re preparing to file criminal charges for the hacking of Donald Trump’s campaign that was done by the country of Iran. The only problem is that the DOJ doesn’t know even who they’re going to indict. Oh my God. Garland, Garland, Garland. Get rid of this guy. Go ahead.
Farron Cousins: Yeah. This is such a dumb story and I love it so much because of how dumb it is. I agree, obviously, they’ve hacked into an American presidential campaign. There needs to be accountability. But our Department of Justice, they know this, I assume they know this, they don’t have jurisdiction in Iran. They really cannot just go over to Iran and say, we’re gonna arrest these couple of people, take ’em back with us. We’re good to go. They don’t even have that. So they come out with this ridiculous announcement last week and say, we are going to indict people. And the reporters say, okay, well, who you got? Okay, well, we don’t know who exactly yet, but we are at the point where we are ready to indict people. You know, basically, if anybody can point us in the right direction, that would be really helpful right now. But we are taking this seriously and we’re gonna do something in a country again, where we actually don’t have jurisdiction and can’t do what we’re saying we’re gonna do, but we’re gonna somehow still do it.
Mike Papantonio: Well, Elon Musk had an interesting point he raises again and again, why is all this targeted to Trump? Why is Iran and China and Russia, what’s it all Trump, Trump, Trump, Trump, Trump? And he raises the question, and DOJ seems to be focused on this one issue, and that is that Iran went after Trump, hacked him and I don’t know that it caused any big problems, but it shows how viable that process is to change an election. Right?
Farron Cousins: Well, one of the things kind of on that subject is, okay, well yes, Iran targeted Trump, Russia’s been doing a lot of pro-Trump stuff out there.
Mike Papantonio: Right. They have been. You’re correct.
Farron Cousins: But in 2016, Hillary Clinton’s campaign was hacked. Those emails were released to media outlets and the media outlets all reported on ’em. Well, this one, the same materials sent to these media outlets that we know, and they said, no, we’re not gonna report on them. So there is a double standard here that I don’t quite understand.
Mike Papantonio: It’s a total double standard.
Farron Cousins: But there’s also the double standard of, okay, well, after that last time, the DOJ didn’t come out and say, well, we’re gonna find these people that did it. They blamed everything on WikiLeaks that only received them, didn’t hack them. So it’s such a weird dichotomy here where nothing, the situations are the same.
Mike Papantonio: Oh, exactly the same.
Farron Cousins: But nothing about the way they’re being handled is the same, and they’re both being handled incorrectly.
Mike Papantonio: Yeah. And then you have, of course, WikiLeaks pays with prison time, right?
Farron Cousins: Yeah.
Mike Papantonio: For God knows how long.
