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WASHINGTON, June 15 (UPI) -- What appears to be stolen opposition research generated by the Democratic National Committee has been leaked to the website Gawker, which published the 200-plus page document on Wednesday. The research catalogs in great detail Trump's past controversial statements, details about marital strife, failed business ventures and other potentially damaging background research about his decades in public life.
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The document was stolen from the DNC during a hack of its servers by two Russians, the committee said.
Gawker said it had not verified the authenticity of the document and the DNC did not do so either, but metadata attached to the PDF shows that it was created by a Democratic operative, Warren Flood, in December 2015.
Gawker said the document was sent to them by a hacker identifying himself as "Guccifer 2.0," a reference to the Romanian man who hacked U.S. leaders in 2013 and first identified Clinton's use of a private email server.
In addition to the Trump research, Gawker said it has received lists of Democratic donors that conflicts with the DNC's statement that no personal information was accessed by hackers.
The Trump campaign responded, charging that the DNC intentionally arranged for the damaging information to be released in order to make it public, but without having it appear that they are behind the attack.
"We believe it was the DNC that did the 'hacking' as a way to distract from the many issues facing their deeply flawed candidate and failed party leader," Trump said in a statement. "Too bad the DNC doesn't hack Crooked Hillary's 33,000 missing emails."
