In this Trumpputin hack New York Times article note that it's "the Russians" without qualifiers, e.g. "suspected," "alleged," who perpetrated the hack, official near-certainty reflected in the quasi-official account.
The dots are all there--Putin's hostility to Hillary Clinton; the mutual affection between Putin and Trump; Trump's encouragement to Russia to get more of Clinton's emails; the mutual benefit to Putin and Trump of a Clinton defeat; Trump, Russia's "unwitting" agent; the dominance of other Russian agents in the Trump campaign; the dominance of Russian money in Trump business finances; Wikileaks' publication of the first tranche of documents; Julian Assange's vow to put Clinton in jail--the dots are all there, the letters in their names form a portmanteau, but they go unconnected with official, and hence quasi-official, certainty.
The dots are all there--Putin's hostility to Hillary Clinton; the mutual affection between Putin and Trump; Trump's encouragement to Russia to get more of Clinton's emails; the mutual benefit to Putin and Trump of a Clinton defeat; Trump, Russia's "unwitting" agent; the dominance of other Russian agents in the Trump campaign; the dominance of Russian money in Trump business finances; Wikileaks' publication of the first tranche of documents; Julian Assange's vow to put Clinton in jail--the dots are all there, the letters in their names form a portmanteau, but they go unconnected with official, and hence quasi-official, certainty.
