People claiming to have hacked the Democratic National Committee have released what they say is the party’s playbook for running against Donald Trump.
The over 200 pages of purported opposition research aimed at the “divisive and dangerous” Trump surfaced just days after Russian hackers breached DNC databases. The “Donald Trump Report” was created on Dec. 19, before Trump even won his first primary.
Gawker obtained the documents. A Romanian hacker named “Gucifer 2.0” claimed credit, saying this was just “one of the many thousands” of documents acquired through hacking the DNC.
The contents include many familiar lines of attack, including Trump’s controversial remarks, past failed business deals, “dangerous” political policies and attitudes toward women.
“Through both his words and actions, Trump has made clear he thinks women’s primary role is to please men,” the apparent DNC report reads under the sections “Misogynist in Chief.”
“Trump’s derogatory and degrading comments to and about women, as well as his tumultuous marriages, have been well publicized,” the document’s authors continued. “And as a presidential candidate, Trump has adopted many of the backwards GOP policies that we’ve come to expect from his party.”
The same section also notes that Trump has said that Muslim women who wear burkas have an “easier” time looking beautiful because “they don’t have to put on makeup.”
The DNC has yet to confirm the authenticity of this document.
