FBI Planted Child Porn on Computers of Trump Supporters
Real Raw News
Nov 5, 2022

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The Federal Bureau of Investigation is guilty of planting child pornography on personal computers belonging to Trump backers and employees of the Trump Organization, said a JAG employee who aided a U.S. Army Cyber Command inquiry to figure out the depth of the deplorable act and who had sanctioned it.

The military first heard the allegations in early September, when a former FBI agent reached out to Cyber Command with a startling story: He alleged that agents in the FBI’s Cyber Crimes Division–the lead federal agency for investigating cyber-attacks and intrusions—were committing crimes of their own rather than investigating the crimes of others. Agents (he did not know names, or the number involved) had discreetly embedded child pornography in emails sent to at least 25 of President Trump’s prominent financial backers, as well as four employees at Trump’s New York City offices.

The whistleblower, our source said, provided Cyber Command with digital copies of the emails, each of which appeared to have originated from either President Trump or his Save America fundraiser. In short, the true sender had spoofed names and I.P. addresses. Within that PDF were fundraising statistics and the familiar Save America logo colored red, white, and blue. Merely opening the PDF triggered undetectable malicious code that wrote hidden pornographic files to the recipients’ boot drive and buried them in invisible folders inside Windows ShellComponents folder.

“This type of attack is nothing new and was pioneered in the 90s. It’s normally rudimentary and picked up by anti-virus and anti-malware software. Federal agents have much more sophisticated means of cyber intrusion, so why the culprit chose this is a bit of a mystery. He—or they—did have skills to bypass Microsoft Defender, Norton, McAfee, Malware Bytes, Bit Defender, and so on,” our source said.

He added that the malicious code would trigger only on personal computers running Windows; Apple products and Android-based mobile devices were impervious to the code.

“It seemed tailored to take advantage of Windows vulnerabilities,” he said.