Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump has filed a lawsuit against the US Department of Justice, seeking $100 million in damages for attempted "political persecution" during the search of his estate in Florida in 2022 by the FBI for classified documents, reported Agence France-Presse, quoted by BTA.
The suit, filed last week and accessed by AFP today, accuses Attorney General Merrick Garland and FBI chief Christopher Wray of "departing from protocol (relating to former presidents - note AFP) to harm" of Trump.
"Garland and Ray should never have authorized the search and subsequent prosecution," says the suit, which seeks $100 million in damages and $15 million in legal costs.
The Republican candidate for the presidential election in November has consistently claimed, without providing evidence, that Democrats are using the law against him, not hesitating to file claims and then withdraw them, according to AFP.
The owner of the social network "X" Elon Musk reported technical problems on his platform, where the live broadcast of his interview with the candidate of the Republican Party for President of the United States Donald Trump was planned, reported Reuters, quoted by BTA.
"It appears to be a massive DDoS attack" (a relatively unsophisticated cyberattack directing large volumes of Internet traffic to targeted servers in order to disable them - ed.), Musk wrote on his "X" profile.
Many of the users are unable to join the live interview. "In the worst case, we will continue with a smaller number of listeners and publish the interview later,", he added.
The FBI is investigating alleged attempts by Iran to hack into advisers from the Democratic Party's US campaign headquarters, first to President Joe Biden and later to Vice President Kamala Harris, as well as an aide to Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump Trump announced today in the Washington Post, quoted by Reuters and BTA.
The federal agency began its investigation in June, when Biden was still the Democratic presidential candidate, suspecting Iran of trying to steal data from the campaign headquarters of both candidates for the Nov. 5 election, the paper said, citing sources familiar with the matter. .
Harris' campaign team has not yet responded to Reuters' requests for comment.
Investigators have found no evidence that attempts to hack the campaign headquarters of the Democrats were successful, the newspaper adds.
The Trump campaign said over the weekend that Iran had hacked one of its websites and that the FBI was investigating. Iran denies in any way that it interfered in the US elections, Reuters points out.