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This story is part of Elections 2020<\/span>, CNET’s coverage of the run-up to voting in November. <\/a><\/p>\n

In June 2016, shortly after a leak of stolen documents tied to the Democratic National Committee<\/a>, a Trump campaign staffer asked higher-ups if election rules prevented the campaign from obtaining material that had been hacked and published online. John Marshburn, the campaign’s policy director in 2016, responded: “I don’t see a problem. Just like WikiLeaks material.” <\/p>\n

That exchange, detailed Tuesday in a 966-page report on Russia’s 2016 presidential election interference<\/a>, from the US Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, reflected the Trump campaign’s willingness to use hacked documents during the contest for the White House against Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton. <\/p>\n

The report highlights multiple instances where the Trump campaign promoted stolen material provided by Russian hackers, even after the US intelligence community warned that the data came from the Kremlin. It also showed a coordinated effort between the Trump campaign and WikiLeaks, an organization that publicly released many of the documents stolen by Russian hackers. <\/p>\n

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“The Trump campaign publicly undermined the attribution of the hack-and-leak campaign to Russia, and was indifferent to whether it and WikiLeaks were furthering a Russian election interference effort,” the report stated. <\/p>\n

The Trump campaign didn’t respond to a request for comment. <\/p>\n

Russia’s cyberattacks against Clinton’s campaign and the DNC<\/a> left a lasting impression on US politics and tech companies, and election officials<\/a> and campaigns<\/a> have ramped up security measures to prevent a repeat. Google, Facebook and Twitter now regularly meet with government agencies<\/a> to prevent the spread of election disinformation on their platforms.<\/p>\n

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The attacks haven’t stopped. Countries like China, Iran and Russia are actively working to influence the 2020 presidential election through cyberattacks and social media<\/a>, the office of the director of national intelligence warned in a statement on Aug. 7. <\/p>\n

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