HOLY FUCK
In late October 2016, less than two weeks before the presidential election, a former adviser to then-presidential candidate Donald Trump, George Papadopoulos, denied to an FBI confidential source that the campaign was involved in the circumstances surrounding the hack of the Democratic National Committee's email system, calling the idea "illegal."
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/george-papadopoulos-former-trump-campaign-adviser-denied-campaign-was-involved-in-dnc-hack-in-recorded-call/