Quotes of the Day

The pressure’s on.

JUNE 21–The latest document dump from “Guccifer 2.0,” the hacker who breached the Democ­ra­tic National Committee’s servers, shows that party officials have researched Hillary Clinton’s prior travel on private jets, the Clinton Foundation’s invest­ments, and the Democ­ra­tic presi­den­tial candidate’s speech contracts.

The hacker this morning began distrib­ut­ing more than 250 files–totaling thousands of pages of records–that appear to have been prepared by DNC research staff.

In e-mails to TSG, “Guccifer 2.0” claimed to be from Romania (like “Guccifer”) and portrayed himself as a “hacktivist” with “a lot of fans” and an “unknown hacker with a laptop.” He also chafed at TSG’s prior descrip­tion of him as a felon. “Ok, but stop calling me the vandal. I’m not a crimi­nal I’m a freedom fighter,” the hacker wrote.

As for the DNC’s claim that the breach was the work of Russian intel­li­gence agents, “Guccifer 2.0” dismissed the asser­tion as a “Total fail!!!” In recent corre­spon­dence, the hacker has used an AOL France e-mail account.

The bulk of the material released today centers on Clinton’s position on scores of domes­tic and inter­na­tional issues and criti­cisms leveled against her by assorted opponents. The documents include Clinton’s counter­ar­gu­ments to those attacks from Repub­li­can officials and other foes.

Trump hit back in an inter­view with CBS News’ Norah O’Donnell.

“She will do horri­bly on the economy. You look at what she did as Secre­tary of State. What China did to this country it was pillage. They pillaged this country,” Trump said.

Asked how he can run a campaign without adequate fundrais­ing, Trump said he’s not concerned with raising money.

“I don’t want to devote the rest of my life to raising money from people,” he told O’Donnell. “All of the money [Clinton] is raising is blood money.”

Donald Trump launched a new allega­tion at Hillary Clinton on Tuesday, accus­ing her of having “laundered” money through a for-profit univer­sity while she was secre­tary of state.

In a rapid-response email blast sent during Clinton’s speech attack­ing Trump’s economic propos­als, the billionaire’s campaign accused the former secre­tary of state of funnel­ing govern­ment money to Laure­ate Educa­tion, a for-profit chain of univer­si­ties that employed Bill Clinton as honorary chancel­lor until April 2015.

The former presi­dent made $16.5 million over his five years in that position while his wife added Laure­ate to the State Depart­ment Global Partner­ship. Trump alleges the Depart­ment of State awarded $55.2 million in grants to Laure­ate, an accusa­tion that is not quite accurate since there is no indica­tion that State Depart­ment money flowed directly to the for-profit educa­tion chain. Accord­ing to Bloomberg, the $55.2 million in State Depart­ment and USAID grant money actually went to the Inter­na­tional Youth Founda­tion, a non-profit group headed by Laurate Educa­tion Chair­man Douglas Becker.

That same Bloomberg inves­ti­ga­tion showed that the IYF received $9 million in State Depart­ment grants in 2009, the year before Bill Clinton joined Laure­ate. The number jumped to $15.1 million in 2010, Bill Clinton’s first year with Laure­ate, and ballooned to $25.5 million in grants in 2012.

“This is yet another example of how Clinton treated the State Depart­ment as her own personal hedge fund, and sold out the Ameri­can public to fund her lavish lifestyle,” Trump’s email read. “Laure­ate made money by racking up student debt on vulner­a­ble students.”

Presi­den­tial candi­date Hillary Clinton will be in Raleigh Wednes­day, but the two other Democ­rats at the top of North Carolina’s ballot won’t be joining her.

Attor­ney General Roy Cooper, who’s running for gover­nor, and U.S. Senate candi­date Deborah Ross both can’t make it to the event at the State Fairgrounds, their campaigns said Tuesday.

Cooper “won’t be there tomor­row but he looks forward to campaign­ing with her in the future and talking about how harmful the Trump/McCrory agenda is for North Carolina,” campaign spokesman Ford Porter said.

Ross has a commu­nity event sched­uled at the same time and didn’t want to cancel it, spokesman Cole Leiter said. “She chose to keep her prior commit­ment in High Point and won’t be able to make Hillary’s rally in Raleigh, but she will be sending her staff and support­ers,” he said.

The Bill, Hillary and Chelsea Clinton Founda­tion was among the organi­za­tions breached by suspected Russian hackers in a dragnet of the U.S. polit­i­cal appara­tus ahead of the Novem­ber election, accord­ing to three people famil­iar with the matter.

The attacks on the foundation’s network, as well as those of the Democ­ra­tic Party and Hillary Clinton’s presi­den­tial campaign, compound concerns about her digital security even as the FBI contin­ues to inves­ti­gate her use of a personal e-mail server while she was secre­tary of state.

Clinton Founda­tion officials said the organi­za­tion hadn’t been notified of the breach and declined to comment further. The compro­mise of the foundation’s comput­ers was first identi­fied by govern­ment inves­ti­ga­tors as recently as last week, the people famil­iar with the matter said. Agents monitor servers used by hackers to commu­ni­cate with their targets, giving them a back channel view of attacks, often even before the victims detect them.

Before the Democ­ra­tic National Commit­tee disclosed a major computer breach last week, U.S. officials informed both polit­i­cal parties and the presi­den­tial campaigns of Clinton, Donald Trump and Bernie Sanders that sophis­ti­cated hackers were attempt­ing to penetrate their comput­ers, accord­ing to a person famil­iar with the govern­ment inves­ti­ga­tion into the attacks.

Malik revealed, in a follow-up inter­view with NBC News, the reason why Mateen—his friend who would go on to slaugh­ter 49 people in an Orlando night­club in the name of the Islamic State after pledg­ing allegiance to its leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi—supported Hillary Clinton for presi­dent.

“Mateen told him he liked Hillary Clinton because he wanted a candi­date who could beat Donald Trump in Novem­ber,” NBC News reported from their inter­view with Malik.