longer timeline, it s clear that the hunt for russians with e-mail dirt on hillary clinton was a recurring theme in the trump campaign. let s go back to march 19th, 2016. when russian operatives first hacked clinton campaign chairman john podesta s e-mail account which wasn t public knowledge until wikileaks released those later that year in october. a month after the podesta hack, in april, learned russian government hacked the dnc. during that same month, april 26th, trump campaign adviser george papadopoulos met in london with a professor who claimed to have contacts with russian government officials in possession of dirt on hillary clinton. in the form of thousands of e-mails. about two weeks later on may