A former Microsoft executive and Trump administration leader issued a stunning warning Saturday for Americans to “buckle up” in this presidential campaign as “someone is running the 2016 playoff” on campaign email hacking.

“Buckle up,” Chris Krebs, the first director of the Department of Homeland Security’s Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency under then-President Donald Trump in 2018, posted Saturday on X. “Confirmed hack & leak of Trump Campaign sensitive documents.”

He posted: “Initial response by Campaign suggests foreign sources, coinciding with Microsoft’s alert from this past week and the @ODNIgov alert of the week before. Someone is running the 2016 playbook, expect continued efforts to stoke fires in society and go after election systems — 95% votes on paper ballots is a strong resilience measure, combined with audits. But the chaos is the point.”

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