Smoking gun? July 27, 2016: 'Russia, if you're listening....'

Donald Trump, July 27, 2016 on the campaign trail.

Boom. A big boom from today’s announced indictments of 12 Russian intelligence operatives. Note the date. July 27, 2016.

July 27, 2016, candidate Donald Trump:

"Russia, if you're listening, I hope you're able to find the 30,000 emails that are missing, I think you will probably be rewarded mightily by our press," the Republican presidential nominee told reporters.

From the indictments:

… on or about July 27, 2016, the Conspirators attempted after hours to spearphish for the first time email accounts at a domain hosted by a third-party provider and used by Clinton’s personal office. At or around the same time, they also targeted seventy-six email addresses at the domain for the Clinton Campaign.

Russia was clearly listening, or had already been talking.