In sum, the Trump campaign worked with the right-wing authoritarian government of Russia, which illegally stole private communications and leveraged them to corrupt the democratic process by tricking the American people about which candidate was more corrupt. Though SSCI could not confirm Stone actually delivered any non-public information, "Trump and the campaign believed that Stone had inside information and expressed satisfaction that Stone's information suggested more releases would be forthcoming." The Trump campaign was aware multiple sources had attributed the hack to Russia, and "sought to obtain advance information about WikiLeaks's planned releases through Roger Stone," who did indeed reach out to WikiLeaks privately.
Meanwhile, WikiLeaks (which distributed the hacked emails) "actively sought, and played, a key role in the Russian influence campaign and very likely knew it was assisting a Russian intelligence influence effort," the report states. Many liberals and conservatives succumbed to paranoia about the story, while many leftists took that paranoia as proof the story was nothing. But another is how the Russiagate story hits the blind spots of practically every American political faction. Part of the explanation, no doubt, is the coronavirus pandemic, ongoing economic crisis, and looming election. It's peculiar that the resolution of this story - which dominated front pages for months on end - has not gotten more attention. The Trump campaign knew Russia was behind the email hacking of Hillary Clinton's campaign manager John Podesta and the Democratic National Committee, and very likely coordinated with WikiLeaks about the emails being dribbled out in a fashion calculated to inflict maximum damage to Clinton. The Trump campaign did conspire in secret (as well as openly) with Russian intelligence. Essentially, the suspicion your average ordinary liberal had from the start was correct. This volume of the report is nearly 1,000 pages long, but at bottom the story is pretty simple.
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