Trump publicly announced his hope that Russia would find Hillary Clinton’s deleted emails, and also asked his internal campaigners to locate them, Mueller found. Michael Flynn, Trump’s former security adviser, recalled Trump asking both him and other members of his staff to locate them. Flynn then reached out to Republican donor Peter Smith who made claims that he was in contact with Russian hackers about the emails. Hours later, hackers sent malware links to 15 email accounts associated with Clinton’s office.