Jerome Corsi's cover story for how he knew WikiLeaks had Podesta's emails sounds even more incriminating

Jerome Corsi, the Trump-loving conspiracy theorist who's in the crosshairs of special counsel Robert Mueller, has given his official explanation for how he knew that WikiLeaks was in possession of former Clinton campaign chairman John Podesta's emails.

Unfortunately for Corsi, however, this explanation raises more questions than it answers and might be even more incriminating than if Corsi had simply admitted that he was in direct contact with WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange.

According to Politico, Corsi says that he figured out that Assange had Podesta's emails based on information given to him by unnamed "sources" who gave him "1,000 pages of information over the summer of 2016 on how the Democratic Party's computers worked."

After performing what Corsi describes as a "forensic analysis" of what appears to be stolen information, he claims he concluded that Podesta's emails must have been hacked.

"Whoever was in that server, had to have seen Podesta's emails," he said. "It was a guess, but it was a conclusion that Assange had Podesta's emails... He was going to release them in October. Assange always releases things strategically."

Of course, this also raises questions about whether the "sources" who gave Corsi this information in the first place were Russian intelligence officers, given that Mueller this past summer leveled indictments against twelve Russian officials for their alleged role in hacking the Democratic National Committee.

Corsi said this week that he tried to convince Mueller's team that Russia was not actually behind the hack of the DNC -- but they weren't buying it.

Additionally, Corsi's belief that Podesta's campaign emails "had to" be part of a batched of hacked DNC emails makes little sense given that they were obtained via a separate phishing attack that was separate from the 2016 hack on the DNC. Although the hack of the DNC was well known by the summer of 2016, it was not publicly known at the time that Podesta's Gmail account had also been successfully compromised.