advisers took that campaign-authorized trip to moscow. well, about a week after that platform fight, the day after the republican convention ended, there was another political bomb that was dropped on the u.s. presidential election from russ russia. the day after the republican convention ended, right before the democratic convention began we got what u.s. intelligence agencies believed to be the next big russian incursion into our election. we got the first wikileaks dump. we got the first wikileaks publication of documents hacked and stolen by russian government sources from the dnc, from the democratic party, and they started publishing those stolen documents from the dnc right before the democrats started their convention. that s how the democrats got to start their nominating convention, with the chair of the party resigning and the party and campaign being blindsided by selectively
start their nominating convention, with the chair of the party resigning and the party and campaign being blindsided by selectively curated and selectively released documents designed to make the democratic party look as terrible as possible. good timing, right? good political timing if you re trying to help trump and hurt the democrats. what was particularly impressive by the trump campaign at the time is how they were so organized around the wikileaks stuff. they were able to jump right on those wikileaks releases and instantly dove tail their own message with the curated point of the wikileaks dump which was to highlight and deepen and aggravate the rift between hillary clinton and bernie sanders wings of the democratic party. the trump campaign turned on a dime instantly as soon as those wikileaks dumps started. that was their new message. they were right on it. and by the end of that month, by the end of august, what was weird on the trump side was that people close to trump were
presidential election from russia. the day after the republican convention ended, right before the democratic convention began we got what u.s. intelligence agencies believed to be the next big russian incursion into our election. we got the first wikileaks dump. we got the first wikileaks publication of documents hacked and stolen by russian government sources from the dnc, from the democratic party, and they started publishing those stolen documents from the dnc right before the democrats started their convention. that s how the democrats got to start their nominating convention, with the chair of the party resigning and the party and campaign being blindsided by selectively curated and selectively released documents designed to make the democratic party look as terrible as possible. good timing, right? good political timing if you re trying to help trump and hurt the democrats. what was particularly impressive by the trump campaign at the time is how they were so