Hillary Clinton’s campaign on Saturday compared the recent hacks of her campaign chairman’s emails to the Watergate scandal.
“What did Trump know, and when did he know it?” the campaign asks in a post on Medium, an ode on the famous line from the Senate’s Watergate investigation.
“We’re witnessing another effort to steal private campaign documents in order to influence an election,” Clinton campaign spokesman Glen Caplin writes in the post. “Only this time, instead of filing cabinets, it’s people’s emails they’re breaking into … and a foreign government is behind it.”
The Medium post comes as more than 800 emails from Clinton campaign chairman John Podesta were published early Saturday by WikiLeaks. The campaign has been increasingly critical of the release of Podesta’s emails, which have come by the thousands every morning.
Clinton and her team have upped their attacks on both WikiLeaks and the Russian government, as well as lashing out at Republican nominee Donald Trump for not referring to the email hacks as a national security threat.
Caplin calls on Trump to condemn the hacks and “denounce Russian efforts to intervene in our election.”
“Why is Trump protecting Putin by lying about Russia’s role in these hacks? What did his campaign know and when did they know it? Why won’t he condemn this?” he asks in the post, adding, “With less than a month until Election Day, these are the questions we need answered — and soon.”
