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Mar-a-Lago Murmurs: Loomergate, Don-and-Kim & Debate Dilemmas

News and notes on the latest rumblings inside Trumpworld amid another assassination attempt, hazy poll numbers, and abounding distractions, both external and self-inflicted.

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An uneasy feeling is settling in for some veterans of past Trump campaigns: In short, they can’t quite assess whether they are winning or losing this late in the game. Photo: Saul Loeb-Pool/Getty Images
Tara Palmeri
September 20, 2024

Like several other journalists covering the 2024 presidential campaign, I was contacted earlier this month, and again on Tuesday, by an individual peddling what appeared to be sensitive documents pertaining to Donald Trump. I alerted federal authorities, and I’m not reporting the contents, but the materials themselves confirm that the hackers, whom the Justice Department apparently suspects to be agents of Iran, have absconded with more than just the oppo files on J.D. Vance, Marco Rubio, and Doug Burgum that have been disseminated to multiple news outlets. It appears that they may also have breached Trump’s legal team.