As news broke of the WikiLeaks release of thousands of Democratic National Committee emails,

demonstrating DNC coordination with the media and the Hillary Clinton campaign

to help sink the candidacy of Bernie Sanders, the media began spinning.

This was all the work of the nefarious Russians working to get Donald Trump elected.

Representative Adam Schiff, Democrat in California,

he's the ranking member of the House Permanent

Select Committee on Intelligence, he said, quote, given Donald Trump's well-known admiration for Putin

and his belittling of NATO, the Russians have both the means and the motive to engage in a

hack of the DNC and the dump of its emails prior to the Democratic Convention, unquote.

Apparently, Yvon Drago is sitting somewhere behind a computer muttering, if she dies, she dies. Except the two things can be true at once. The DNC can be a deeply corrupt pro-Hillary super PAC, and the Russians can actually be stumping for Trump. According to Eli Lake of Bloomberg, quote, many cybersecurity experts, as well as the Hillary Clinton campaign, are now saying the Russians are responsible for last month's attack of the DNC.

Here's the New York Times.

Quote, researchers have concluded that the National Committee was breached by two Russian intelligence agencies,

which were the same attackers behind previous Russian cyber operations at the White House, the State Department, and the Joint Chiefs of Staff last year.

So here was Trump's response to these reports via Twitter.

Quote, the new joke in town is that Russia leaks the disastrous DNC emails, which

never have been written, stupid, because Putin likes me.

Well, Putin does like him, and Trump sort of likes Putin.

Essentially, the only major platform change at the Republican

National Convention involved the Trump team tearing out a section endorsing giving the Ukrainians

weapons they needed to defend themselves from Russian invasion. The original amendment said,

quote, today the post-Cold War ideal of a Europe whole and free is being severely tested

by Russia's ongoing military aggression in Ukraine.

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