Clerk Note: Putin favors Trump. Russia has financial stakes in Trump, because western banks won't loan to six-time bankruptcy magnet.
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All Signs Point to Russia Being Behind the DNC Hack
http://motherboard.vice.com/read/all-signs-point-to-russia-being-behind-the-dnc-hack?utm_source=vicefbusads
By: Thomas Rid
Date: 2016-07-25
In the wee hours of June 14, the Washington Post revealed that “Russian government hackers” had penetrated the computer network of the Democratic National Committee. Foreign spies, the Post claimed, had gained access to the DNC’s entire database of opposition research on the presumptive Republican nominee, Donald Trump, just weeks before the Republican Convention. Hillary Clinton said the attack was “troubling.”