WikiLeaks email lays out Clinton attack plans for Cruz, Rubio, Trump

By Sarah Westwood, Sarah Westwood

Published October 25, 2016

Emails published by WikiLeaks Monday suggest Hillary Clinton's campaign had considered dozens of political attacks against Donald Trump by December of last year, including the plan to bring out Alicia Machado, the former Miss Universe whose past treatment at the hands of Trump became the focus of Clinton's closing argument in the first debate.

The emails, obtained illegally from the inbox of Clinton's campaign chair, showed the Democratic National Committee dug into Trump's legal, financial and marital history ahead of the Republican primary in anticipation that he could emerge as the party's nominee.

The DNC compiled hundreds of pages of opposition research against Sen. Marco Rubio and Sen. Ted Cruz as well.

Many of the planned attacks on Cruz and Rubio mirrored those either Republican would have leveled back at Clinton.