The Loudon County Sheriff’s Office is hunting for a suspect seen burglarizing the Trump for President 2024 campaign office in Ashburn.
Police are also currently investigating to see if anything was stolen.
The suspect is on video breaking into the building and going through the office, but it is not immediately clear what they were looking for or if anything was taken.
He is described as a white male wearing dark clothing, a dark cap, and wearing a yellow backpack on his front in the police report.
“It is rare to have the office of any political campaign or party broken into,” Sheriff Mike Chapman said in a statement. “We are determined to identify the suspect, investigate why it happened, and determine what may have been taken, as well as what may have been left behind.”
“We have not identified or located the individual in the photos and would appreciate any help from the public,” a spokesperson said.
Officials will issue an update once more is known.
The office is also the headquarters of the Virginia 10th District Republican Committee. Neither the committee nor the Trump campaign has issued a comment at this time.
Break-In Just After Hack
On Saturday, the Trump campaign said some of its internal communications had been hacked.
According to Politico, the publication received emails from an anonymous account with documents from within the Trump organization.
On July 22, POLITICO began receiving emails from an anonymous account. Over the course of the past few weeks, the person — who used an AOL email account and identified themselves only as “Robert” — relayed what appeared to be internal communications from a senior Trump campaign official. A research dossier the campaign had apparently done on Trump’s running mate, Ohio Sen. JD Vance, which was dated Feb. 23, was included in the documents. The documents are authentic, according to two people familiar with them and granted anonymity to describe internal communications. One of the people described the dossier as a preliminary version of Vance’s vetting file.
The research dossier was a 271-page document based on publicly available information about Vance’s past record and statements, with some — such as his past criticisms of Trump — identified in the document as “POTENTIAL VULNERABILITIES.” The person also sent part of a research document about Florida Sen. Marco Rubio, who was also a finalist for the vice presidential nomination.
The Trump campaign blamed a foreign spearfishing attack.
“These documents were obtained illegally from foreign sources hostile to the United States, intended to interfere with the 2024 election and sow chaos throughout our Democratic process,” Trump campaign spokesperson Steven Cheung said.
“On Friday, a new report from Microsoft found that Iranian hackers broke into the account of a ‘high ranking official’ on the U.S. presidential campaign in June 2024, which coincides with the close timing of President Trump’s selection of a vice presidential nominee.”
Law enforcement officials have not commented on the breach.
