Agreed. Maybe he was actually one of the "old-style" Democrats, a la Truman, JFK, etc.?
My guess is rich was a card carrying Democrat. He was really into Bernie Sanders. That was his guy, but going through the d. DNC computer. he found evidence after evidence that Hillary had completely destroyed Bernie’s chances for a win, so he took retribution. He really got p***** off and did it in the way that it really screwed over the democrats.
He,took several
Thumb drives and loaded them with intel and shot him over to wiki.The rest of course is history