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This assumption would seem to suggest that Russia attempted to or successfully hacked the RNC as well, which would fly in the face of the current mantra that Russia started all of this for the primary purpose of making Clinton look bad and Trump look good.
You're also assuming that Trump's empire has the same visibility and reach that the DNC does, which I think is a pretty terrible assumption considering that Trump keeps a very tight lid on his operations and image, and does not have the same obligation to keep potentially-damning documentation on hand that a public official might.
Why would it not align with that mantra? If Russia hacked and retrieved data from RNC, then it's certainly possible that they are simply holding onto that info (again--we're arguing in the hypothetical here). Russia's goal would be to undermine the US by encouraging a Trump win. Without hypotheticals, a Trump presidency would pretty clearly weaken the US across the world. So, that's a win for Russia.
At this point, either they don't need to, or they would and could choose to start releasing RNC and Trump info throughout his tenure, to further erode US trust.
The only way we know about the Russian hacks is after the release of emails and data--it wasn't discovered (OK, it wasn't made public) until after that information was public. Obviously I could be ignorant in these matters as I wonder if a hack like that is pretty easy to detect prior to any data release--it sure seems that it would be based on what we know with various consumer hacks. ...but that being said, it would never be in the best interest of the US gov't or any major political party to reveal a data breach unless forced to. Pretty sure this happens all the time, just as we do it with other countries. Seems to me that the reality in that world is that this is all just another Monday at the office, yet to us peons these are major events and scandals.