This weekend, Politico dropped a news bombshell: A person who only goes by “Robert” had shared with the news organization documents allegedly stolen from the Donald Trump presidential campaign.
Since then, we have learned that The New York Times and The Washington Post have also heard from the same person and received some stolen documents. The document dump has the hallmarks of a hack-and-leak operation, which typically involves malicious hackers stealing sensitive information and strategically leaking it with the goal of hurting the target of the hack. The FBI has said it is investigating the hack. Trump himself has accused the Iranian government of the breach. Longtime Trump confidante Roger Stone said his email account was compromised, which is likely where the whole operation began, according to anonymous people who spoke to The Washington Post…
