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by uep 3014 days ago
Have you followed the news at all? This is not even up for debate.

The DNC was hacked and the emails released to hurt Hillary Clinton and to aid the Trump campaign. It is not yet known if the Trump campaign was involved, but it is a fact that the emails were released to aid his campaign. Here are some links:

Guccifer 2.0 is the hacker involved in the DNC emails.

https://www.cnn.com/2016/09/13/politics/guccifer-2-0-democra...

Guccifer 2.0 linked to Russian government.

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2018/03/dnc-lone-hacker-...

CIA director calls WikiLeaks Russia-aided "non-state hostile intelligence service"

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/cia-director-calls-wikileaks-a-...

Wikileaks telling Trump campaign they should give them tax returns so that they don't look so biased for Russia

https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2017/11/the-sec...

DNC emails released one hour after Access Hollywood tapes

https://www.cnn.com/2017/10/07/politics/one-year-access-holl...

Russia's hate of Clinton is due to the Magnitsky Act, which targets oligarchs in Russia.

https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/8qbbdx/why-putin-hates-cl...