FBI investigates DNC hacking; Clinton campaign blames Russia

Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz, head of the DNC, announced she would step down after the Democratic National Convention concludes, apparently as a result of the email leak.

WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange says “there is no proof whatsoever” that Russian intelligence is behind the thousands of hacked emails from the Democratic National Committee that WikiLeaks released.

“A compromise of this nature is something we take very seriously, and the Federal Bureau of Investigation will continue the investigate and hold accountable those that pose a threat in cyberspace”, the Federal Bureau of Investigation said in a statement on Monday.

Donald Trump on Monday dismissed as a “joke” claims by Clinton’s campaign that Russian Federation is trying to help Trump by leaking the emails. The emails were sent between January 2015 and May 25, 2016, according to WikiLeaks.

“The very top of the Democratic party, Debbie Wasserman Schultz, is now being forced to resign”, he continued, referencing the impending resignation of the DNC’s current chair, “and other people from the party, which is meant to be neutral, subverting the process in order to make sure Hillary Clinton won the campaign”.

Clinton’s campaign, meanwhile, was pushing the notion that Russian Federation was behind the email leaks in an effort to help Trump win. “Considering the calculated release of these emails and the fact that it was Russian state actors that had the emails, experts have been inferring it was the Russians who perpetrated this leak for the objective of helping Donald Trump and hurting Hillary Clinton”.

Trump has long sought to scoop up disaffected voters who feel Sanders – a self-described democratic socialist initially dismissed as a fringe candidate – was denied a fair shot at the nomination.