Trump's campaign worked with Musk's X to keep leaked JD Vance file off platform | Donald Trump

Donald Trump's presidential campaign cooperated

The former president's team contacted , as The New York Times reported.

X reacted by blocking links to the material and claiming that they contained sensitive personal information such as the social security number of Ohio's US senator, and banished cliff stone from the platform.

Materials posted by Klippenstein on his Substack in September appear to be linked to a hack of the Trump campaign earlier this year that the FBI has linked to Iran. Documents from the hack were leaked to several media outlets, which chose not to publish them.

The media didn't reach the same conclusion when it paid close attention to files from Hillary Clinton's 2016 presidential campaign, which were hacked and leaked by Russian intelligence before she ultimately lost that election to Trump. Trump once said he hoped Russia could “find” some of Clinton’s files.

The removal of the material from After buying Twitter in 2022, Musk said he was a supporter of free speech and the open exchange of information, even if it offends one of the political parties.

Last week, Musk appeared alongside the former president at a rally in Pennsylvania, awkwardly jumping onto the stage before declaring, “I'm not just Maga – I'm dark Maga,” while referencing the slogan “Make. Make.” “America Great Again” of the Republican candidate.

Musk added that “this will be the last election” if Trump doesn't win against Kamala Harris in November, complaining that she and her fellow Democrats “want to take away your freedom of speech and your right to bear arms.” “They effectively want to disenfranchise you.”

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“The real election interference is that a social media company can make certain information inappropriate for the American electorate,” he wrote.

“Two of our most sacred rights as Americans are freedom of speech and assembly, online or elsewhere. It is a national humiliation that these rights can be restricted by anyone with enough digits in their bank account.”

Musk is expected to appear at more Trump rallies — and he may even knock on voters' doors in Pennsylvania next week. He has funded a political action organization called America Pac, which has spent about $80 million to help Trump reach voters in key swing states like Pennsylvania.