GOP operative who tried to get Hillary's emails from Russian hackers committed suicide after talking to WSJ

The bizarre story of Peter W. Smith, the Republican donor who attempted to extract Hillary Clinton's missing emails from Russian hackers profiled in the Wall Street Journal last month, just got even stranger.

According to the Chicago Tribune, Smith committed suicide in the days after speaking with the Journal about his quest for Clinton's emails.

According to the report, Smith killed himself in a hotel room in Rochester, Minnesota on May 14, 2017 -- 10 days after speaking to the Journal. He left a "carefully prepared file of documents" including his suicide note, which claimed he was in "ill health" and had an expiring life insurance policy. He was 81 at the time of his death.

The day after the story broke in late June, Shane Harris, the Journal reporter who broke the story, revealed nobody would tell him how Smith had died.