Along with that release, the Shadow Brokers this time posted a fifteen-hundred-word rambling open letter pleading with Trump to stay in touch with his far-right nationalist base, and not to give in to the “deep state” and “globalists.” The hackers criticized Trump’s decision to launch air strikes in Syria in retaliation for chemical weapons used by the country’s Russia-backed dictator, Bashar al-Assad. They now claimed that despite theories of their Russian origin they were actually former U.S. intelligence officers who had become conscientious objectors. They railed against Goldman Sachs,
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