And that's why the Russians took a time machine to four months before that joke (July 2016) to hack Podesta's emails (March 2016) right?
Re:No Thank You, Mr. Pecker
by JeremyBanks on Friday February 08, 2019 @09:15AM
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He didn't ask them for Podesta's emails, he asked them for Clinton's, and they got right on it: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/13/us/politics/trump-russia-...
Something similar happened with the "secret wall street speech transcripts"-not a major story, but the fact that they weren't public became a major talking point for the Trump supporters I talked to-and lo and behold they did eventually leak.
His "joke" was deliberate treason.