for the Democratic National Committee (DNC) posted an announcement that Russian government hackers had infiltrated the DNC’s computer and obtained 19 access to documents. On July 22, 2016, the day before the Democratic National Convention, WikiLeaks posted thousands of hacked DNC documents revealing sensitive 20 internal deliberations. Soon thereafter, Hillary Clinton’s campaign manager publicly contended that Russia had hacked the DNC emails and arranged their 21 release in order to help candidate Trump. On July 26, 2016, the New York Times reported that U.S. “intelligence agencies ha[d] told the White House they now have ‘high confidence’ that the Russian government was behind the theft of 22 emails and documents from the Democratic National Committee.” Within the Trump Campaign, aides reacted with enthusiasm to reports of the 23 hacks. Harm to Ongoing Matter█ █ █ █ █ █ █ █ █ █ █ █ █ █ █ █ █ █ █ █ █ █ █ █ █ █ █ █ █ █ discussed with Campaign officials that WikiLeaks 24 would release the hacked material. Some witnesses said that Trump himself discussed the possibility of upcoming releases HOM█ █ █ █. Michael Cohen, then-executive vice president of the Trump Organization and special counsel to Trump, recalled hearing Harm to Ongoing Matter█ █ █ █ █ █ █ █ █ █ █ █ █ █ █ █ █ █ █ █ █ █ █ █ █ █ █ █ █ █ █ █ █ █ █ █ █ █ █ █ █ █ █ █ █ █ 25 █ █ █ █ █. Cohen recalled that Trump responded, “oh good, alright,” and 26 Harm to Ongoing Matter█ █ █ █ █ █ █ █ ██. Manafort said shortly after WikiLeak’s July 22, 2016 release of hacked documents, he spoke to Trump Harm to Ongoing Matter█ █ █ █ █ █ █ █ █ █ █ █ █ █ █ █ █ █ █ █ █ █ █ █ █ █ █ █ █ █ █ █ █ █ █ █ █ █ █ █ █ █ █ █ █; Manafort recalled that Trump responded that Manafort should HOM█ █ █ █ █ █ █ █ █ keep Trump 27 updated. Deputy campaign manager Rick Gates said that Manafort was getting pressure about HOM█ █ █ █ █ █ █ █ █ █ █ ██ status updates on 28 upcoming releases. Around the same time, Gates was with Trump on a trip to an airport HOM█ █ █ █ █ █ █ █ █ █ █ █ █ █ █ █ █ █ █ █ █ █ █ █ █ █ █ █ █, and shortly after the call ended, Trump told Gates that more releases of 29 damaging information would be coming. Harm to Ongoing Matter█ █ █ █ 30 █ █ █ █ █ were discussed within the Campaign, and in the summer of 2016, the Campaign was planning a communications strategy based on the possible