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What would have happened to Hillary's emails if WikiLeaks would not have existed?

Russia (probably?) still would have released them. WikiLeaks is merely a tool for entities wishing to release secret information and documents.

Personally, I prefer WikiLeaks to be indiscriminate towards the secret documents they are entrusted with. If they weren't, another service would probably pop up doing exactly that.

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> What would have happened to Hillary's emails if WikiLeaks would not have existed?

You mean the alleged (never verified) DNC emails. Hillary's emails were released by the FBI and in response to a lawsuit.

Many of the emails were proven authentic via DKIM signatures.

I searched and found no credible source supporting this claim. Do you know of one?

Wikileaks makes the claim, and some very partisan sources repeat it, but that's all I see.

You can check the headers yourself.

It's not realistic for me to figure out DKIM and verify thousands of headers.

Also, for other people, I'm not a credible source. Is there one?

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