[nl]

> Even if we posit that such a hack was requested

Which we do, and was the whole point

> how does that transmute into a request to "hack the Democrats"?

Hillary Clinton (the person under discussion) was the Democratic candidate for president at the time.

[defen]

You still haven't answered how a hack could find deleted emails?

[nl]

I'm not arguing that Trump knows anything about how hacking works at all.