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submitted 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) by MicroWave@lemmy.world to c/news@lemmy.world

Summary

A hacker accessed a file containing damaging testimony about former Congressman Matt Gaetz, President-elect Donald Trump’s attorney general pick.

The file includes sworn statements from a woman alleging she had sex with Gaetz in 2017 when she was 17, corroborating testimony from a witness, and other evidence from a civil suit involving Gaetz ally Christopher Dorworth.

The hacked materials, which remain unpublished, also include unredacted personal information of witnesses and evidence tied to federal and congressional investigations.

The hacker’s motive remains unknown.

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[-] whithom@discuss.online 206 points 5 months ago
[-] njm1314@lemmy.world 65 points 5 months ago

The fact that he's saying it instead of publishing is how you know he's not for real

[-] DScratch@sh.itjust.works 28 points 5 months ago

Counter-offer: hacking wants that sweet sweet BTC payout.

[-] Rubanski@lemm.ee 1 points 5 months ago

Or baguettes

[-] corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca 21 points 5 months ago

Maybe we don't doxx the witnesses, okay?

[-] whithom@discuss.online 5 points 5 months ago

So, just let him get away with it then? Because, Canadian, that’s what will happen.

[-] atzanteol@sh.itjust.works 3 points 5 months ago
[-] ZoopZeZoop@lemmy.world 2 points 5 months ago

Any idiot with Adobe Acrobat can do that. It shouldn't delay anything.

[-] whithom@discuss.online 2 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

The delay is that it’s not real.

Edit: the hack part

[-] ZoopZeZoop@lemmy.world 1 points 5 months ago

Agreed. Clogging up our news cycle with B.S.

[-] errer@lemmy.world 8 points 5 months ago

Witness prolly has the very real fear of “they release it, he gets confirmed anyway, Gaetz throws the book at him.” Easy for keyboard warriors to chide this person with no consequences to themselves.

[-] baldingpudenda@lemmy.world 4 points 5 months ago

I can't remember exactly how it was said but, "The internet is all gas no breaks. Random strangers will hype you up and gleefully watch you ruin your life."

[-] whithom@discuss.online 3 points 5 months ago

So black out the name and release it.

[-] Scubus@sh.itjust.works 1 points 5 months ago

Then why perform the hack in the first place? It doesnt add up unless the dude is just trying to blackmail into $

[-] nutsack@lemmy.world 8 points 5 months ago

I don't think that would have the effect within the legal system that you think it might have

[-] whithom@discuss.online 10 points 5 months ago

Can’t know if it isn’t released

[-] jaggedrobotpubes@lemmy.world 2 points 5 months ago

Still good to have it out there.

[-] TexMexBazooka@lemm.ee 54 points 5 months ago

Publish or shut the fuck up

[-] A_Filthy_Weeaboo@lemmy.world 51 points 5 months ago

Oh please...let this be true...Let Gaetz squirm like the spineless pedo he is

[-] gi1242@lemmy.world 62 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

he's not in the slightest bit worried. his boss got away with worse, and as long as he toes the line he will be fine

[-] justhach@lemmy.world 26 points 5 months ago

Exaclty. Blackmail only works if the target has a sense of shame, and clearly MAGAts abandones theirs long ago.

[-] newbeni@lemmy.world 1 points 5 months ago

I always thought it was "tows" lol

[-] Mongostein@lemmy.ca 35 points 5 months ago

It won’t change anything. The pedophiles are in power.

[-] RagingRobot@lemmy.world 13 points 5 months ago

Yeah I don't even think they are going to do confirmations like they usually do. Trump already said he wants recess appointments and he always gets everything he wants from these idiots

[-] JCreazy@midwest.social 32 points 5 months ago

The hacker won't release shit. Nothing will happen. Everything will continue on like normal. We've been hearing about damning evidence about multiple people for years now. Here we are with none of it.

[-] justhach@lemmy.world 18 points 5 months ago

Still waiting on that Redditor to reveal the gay senator he was having an affair with.

[-] corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca 2 points 5 months ago

Ohhh, that fiction. I forgot about that.

[-] Erasmus@lemmy.world 24 points 5 months ago

Release the pedofiles!!

[-] AbouBenAdhem@lemmy.world 17 points 5 months ago

A file with damaging information about Gaetz?

Isn’t that like... any news article covering him?

[-] WrenFeathers@lemmy.world 16 points 5 months ago

If they had it, they’d release it. There’s no extortion to be had here, no reason to delay. The only reason to have gotten it would be to release it. That they haven’t- pretty much means they haven’t got anything.

[-] Hacksaw@lemmy.ca 6 points 5 months ago

Well it has all the info to completely dox anyone who testified against the ~~attorney~~ child rapist general. Magas would literally kill them where they sleep.

[-] brezel@piefed.social 12 points 5 months ago

Who cares anymore? You guys voted a criminal into power. Facts don't matter anymore.

[-] TexMexBazooka@lemm.ee 2 points 5 months ago
[-] Rapidcreek@lemmy.world 11 points 5 months ago

An amazing number of “secure links” sure turn out to not be that. Damn humans.

[-] letsgo2themall@lemmy.world 11 points 5 months ago

release it, or shut the hell up. Not that it will change anything.

[-] inb4_FoundTheVegan@lemmy.world 11 points 5 months ago

This isn't a hack, that is just the cover for a leak.

[-] Sam_Bass@lemmy.world 10 points 5 months ago

Publish it now

[-] MattTheProgrammer@lemmy.world 7 points 5 months ago

It will change nothing

[-] TimLovesTech@badatbeing.social 6 points 5 months ago

If released, I hope that the victim/witness information is redacted, unless of course this is a hack done by the Right to get the women's names out to the cult so they can do what the cult does best. =(

[-] nutsack@lemmy.world 5 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

conservatives do not care about this. this is not what they care about. they don't care. it does not matter. liberals will never figure this out.

[-] andyburke@fedia.io 2 points 5 months ago

We know they don't care. 🤷‍♂️

We care, that's why it's being discussed.

[-] HellsBelle@sh.itjust.works 4 points 5 months ago

With all the shitty news out there, I'm begging the hackers to throw us a bone and release the files. I mean c'mon ... were dying here.

[-] Bluefalcon@discuss.tchncs.de 4 points 5 months ago

Or Trump has someone from russia hack gaetz files so they can't be used in court.

[-] andrew_bidlaw@sh.itjust.works 3 points 5 months ago

Let it have reach and traction in a way it can't be ignored, can't be doubted.

[-] x00z@lemmy.world 3 points 5 months ago

Gaetz would have been around 35 at the time.

[-] Mouselemming@sh.itjust.works 1 points 5 months ago

A child!

Meanwhile we're trying 10 year olds as adults...

[-] finitebanjo@lemmy.world 3 points 5 months ago

Smart, they can't smoke out the whistleblower if there is no whistleblower.

[-] RattlerSix@lemmy.world 2 points 5 months ago

Sounds like a member of Congress getting ready to leak the report and blame it on hackers

[-] captainlezbian@lemmy.world 1 points 5 months ago
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