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A couple of things I noticed with the Macron leaks.
1) They didn't seem to have any influential French amplifiers.
2) The likes of Bellingcat very quickly spotted that there was Russian VBA code embedded in supposedly incriminating Excel documents and that the supposed bank letters written in different countries looked to have been created within a few minutes of each other on the same massively expensive industrial printer/copiers. Oops!
3) Once you discounted the dodgy documents, there wasn't any dirt.
Now, apparently team Macron had been intentionally soaking up the hackers' time by entering fake/decoy information into the phishing sites. Nicely done.
But also, part of the reason the leaks didn't cause any damage is Macron looks to have been clean.
In contrast, there was plenty of mud to throw at Hilary/the Democrats. None of it criminal, but it was damaging enough.