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The top Democrat on the House Armed Services committee wants President Trump to strongly condemn the hacking of French presidential candidate Emmanuel Macron that resulted in tens of thousands of documents being released just before Sunday's election.

Rep. Adam Smith, of Washington, said in a statement that Trump must lead the world in condemning the attack on Macron's campaign.

"This attack on French democracy is a threat to all of us, and our way of life. If we do not meet this ongoing, intentional campaign to undermine representative democracy around the world with effective resistance, we stand to lose much of what we value and what we have sacrificed for as a nation," he said.

"I call on President Trump to respond forcefully to this attack. He must not downplay, ignore, or encourage such an assault," Smith added.

On Friday, just hours before a 44-hour, government-mandated media blackout on election news, tens of thousands of pages of emails and campaign documents related to Macron's campaign were released. The leak came through a hack that some are already blaming on the Russian government.

The French election commission has warned media outlets and citizens not to spread the information, warning that some of it could be false forgeries planted inside of legitimate communications. The government has warned it would be a criminal offense to spread misinformation.

Democrats have been up in arms about the hacking report due to Russia's influence campaign on the 2016 presidential election. According to American intelligence officials, the Russian government sponsored hackers that broke into the emails of the Democratic National Committee and John Podesta, Hillary Clinton's campaign chairman.

Clinton has blamed the leaks as one of the reasons she lost the election to Trump in November. Trump is yet to condemn that interference in the campaign and, on the trail, encouraged hackers to go after Clinton's emails.

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