But Her Emails. Literally.

An explosive new report from Shane Harris at the Wall Street Journal: GOP Operative Sought Clinton Emails from Hackers, Implied a Connection to Flynn.

Before the 2016 presidential election, a longtime Republican opposition researcher mounted an independent campaign to obtain emails he believed were stolen from Hillary Clinton’s private server, likely by Russian hackers.

In conversations with members of his circle and with others he tried to recruit to help him, the GOP operative, Peter W. Smith, implied he was working with retired Lt. Gen. Mike Flynn, at the time a senior advisor to then-candidate Donald Trump.

"He said, 'I'm talking to Michael Flynn about this—if you find anything can you let me know?'" said Eric York, a computer-security expert from Atlanta who searched hacker forums on Mr. Smith's behalf for people who might have access to the emails.

...Mr. Smith's focus was some 33,000 emails Mrs. Clinton said were deleted because they were deemed personal. Mr. Smith said he believed that the emails might have been obtained by hackers and that they actually concerned official matters Mrs. Clinton wanted to conceal—two notions for which he offered no evidence.

"Russia, if you’re listening, I hope you're able to find the 30,000 emails that are missing."--Trump, July 2016. https://t.co/EOd4DQ3FGS

— Melissa McEwan (@Shakestweetz) June 29, 2017

I will plainly state I do not believe that is a coincidence. To the contrary, it now looks quite obvious to me that the 33,000 emails were a subject of some discussion among the Trump campaign team, and his outburst at the presser was an example of his not being able to stop himself saying publicly what's going on behind the scenes, as we have seen him do over and over again during his presidency, whether it's spilling secrets to the Russians or confessing that he fired James Comey to hinder the Russia investigation.

Reports from intelligence agencies "describe Russian hackers discussing how to obtain emails from Mrs. Clinton's server and then transmit them to Mr. Flynn via an intermediary, according to U.S. officials with knowledge of the intelligence."

If Trump didn't know this was going on under his nose, he's catastrophically unfit to lead. If he did, it's treason.

Either way, this is incredibly serious, and I trust that the Republican Party will do their best to bury it as quickly and thoroughly as possible, because they are fucking cowards.