Why NYT, WaPo and Politico won't print leaked emails from inside the Trump camp

At least three news outlets were leaked confidential material from inside the Donald Trump campaign, including its report vetting JD Vance as a vice presidential candidate. So far, each has refused to reveal any details about what they received.Instead, Politico, The New York Times and The Washington Post have written about a potential hack of the campaign and described what they had in broad terms.Their decisions stand inmarked contrastto the 2016 presidential campaign, when a Russian hack exposed emails to and from Hillary Clinton’s campaign manager, John Podesta. The website Wikileaks published a trove of these embarrassing missives, and mainstream news organizations covered them avidly.Politicowrote over the weekendabout receiving emails starting July 22 from a person identified as “Robert” that included a 271-page campaign document about Vance and a partial vetting report on Sen. Marco Rubio, who was also considered as a potential vice president. Both Politico andthe Postsaid that...