GOP Researcher Makes Shocking Claim About Clinton’s Deleted Emails, Dies 10 Days Later

A report from the Wall Street Journal claims that a Republican researcher attempted to obtain hacked emails from the Hillary Clinton presidential campaign during the election, and that he believed Michael Flynn was tied to the effort. Peter W. Smith, the operative, died 10 days after speaking to the Journal about his claim.

GOP operative sought Clinton emails from hackers, implied a connection to Flynn https://t.co/CBZLBFcjch

— Wall Street Journal (@WSJ) June 29, 2017

The report said Smith implied to associates that Flynn was somehow associated with the attempt to obtain hacked emails. Flynn was a senior adviser to Trump at the time . . .

The White House declined comment on the story, while a Trump campaign official denied Smith ever worked for the campaign in any capacity and that Flynn would have been operating as a “private individual” if he had any contact with Smith.

Smith himself admitted he did not work for the Trump campaign.

In the interview with the Journal, Smith claimed he knew of five groups of hackers who said they had Clinton’s emails, and of those he believed two were Russian sources. Smith was focused on obtaining the 33,000 deleted emails that were absent from those turned over to the State Department because they were of a “personal nature.” (Read more from “GOP Researcher Makes Shocking Claim About Clinton’s Deleted Emails, Dies 10 Days Later” HERE)

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