Does this mean Seth Rich had nothing to do with it? No, of course it doesn't. Just because Russians were snooping and quietly spying for months and months doesn't mean that a totally unrelated activity, a disillusioned young man downloading a bunch of emails one night, DIDN'T happen. I doubt the Russian hackers and Seth Rich had anything to do with one another, or were aware of one another at all.
When Putin says he didn't give the emails to Wikileaks, he's probably telling the truth, because Assange said the same thing. Not the Russians. Doesn't mean the Russians hadn't been snooping around the whole time, though. But any activity, Russians, Seth Rich, whoever, any activity that took place before the DNC nominations and that hurt Hillary has to be looked at as possibly aimed at helping Bernie, not Trump.
And Daniel has a VERY good point in that: helping Trump in 2015, early 2016, would more likely entail going after HIS competition (Rubio, Cruz, Bush), not going after Hillary.
> “There was Russian hacking.”
There is ALWAYS Russian hacking. It’s a given. The question is why wasn’t there more robust cybersecurity on the part of democrats and their servers and cyber networks?
Because their servers were either illegal or selling secrets or both. And they were just plain stupid like John Podesta leaving a default email password as ‘password’ or letting Imran Awan carry passwords for many members of Congress.
The Russians do not hack from GRU offices in Moscow. They do it right on American soil from their ‘retreats’ at Centreville, MD and Oyster Bay, Long Island.
They find, use, pay insiders for speed and to escape detection. Imran Awan did the inside job for them. Dems are scared to death that Imran will be pulled into other indictments and end up singing. I tend to think there must be hit contracts out on this Awan and maybe others.