PHILADELPHIA — Hours before the start of the Democratic convention, Hillary Clinton’s campaign on Monday advanced the theory that Russian state actors hacked the Democratic National Committee email system and leaked out the information to help Donald Trump.
“All we know now is what experts are telling us,” Clinton campaign manager Robby Mook said. “I would refer everybody here to reporting today in the New York Times and today in the Washington Post. What the experts are saying and what the experts said when this breach initially happened at the DNC was they believe it was Russian state actors who took these emails and what further experts are saying, and again, I refer you to the reporting on this, but further experts are saying that then, because they possessed those emails, the Russian state actors were feeding the emails to hackers for the purpose of helping Donald Trump.”
Hours before the start of the party’s national convention, the Clinton campaign and the DNC were scrambling to contain damage and maintain party unity after a leak of DNC internal emails showed favoratism toward Clinton over Sen. Bernie Sanders, I.-Vt., during the primary process.
The leak confirmed the suspicions of Sanders supporters who had long charged that the primary process was “rigged” against him, and forced DNC Chairwoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz to say she would resign after the conclusion of the convention.
