Trump campaign is abruptly trying to distance itself from data firm it paid millions.

 Here’s why.

Cambridge Analytica’s CEO, Alexander Nix, emailed Julian Assange to try to obtain 33,000 of Hillary Clinton’s missing emails.

Nix also wrote an email to Rebekah Mercer, one of Trump’s top donors and the daughter of Robert Mercer, saying that he had contacted Assange.

Assange confirmed he had received the overtures.

After Nix’s attempt to collaborate with Assange came to light, Trump Campaign Executive Director Michael Glassner went out of his way to distance the campaign from Cambridge Analytica.