Back on May 14th of this year, Republican political operative Peter W. Smith confessed to the Wall Street Journal that he had attempted to collude with the Donald Trump campaign and Russia to rig the election in Trump’s favor. He then died ten days later, and the story was published after his death. After weeks of attempting to find his official cause of death, it’s surfaced: suicide. And based on the note he supposedly left behind, it appears to have been suspicious in nature.

The official government report on Peter W. Smith’s death has finally become public record, and the Chicago Tribune is confirming that it’s officially been classified as a suicide. The eighty-one year old Smith is said to have taken his own life in an Illinois hotel room and left behind a note in which he insisted that there was no “foul play” involved. The note may have insisted too thoroughly.

Smith’s supposed suicide note said that there was “NO FOUL PLAY WHATSOEVER” in all caps, instead listing his failing health and an expiring life insurance policy as his reasons. But this stands out as suspicious. Most (not all) life insurance policies are voided in the case of suicide, and there is also the question of why someone his age would have an expiring life insurance policy.

There is obviously more to this story, and someone wanted him silenced. Smith was trying to get Hillary's emails for the GOP to use as dirt and he suddenly became a huge liability to the Trump campaign when that became known when he confessed to the WSJ. He died ten days later, well before any special prosecutor, grand jury, or Congressional committee could subpoena him, get him sworn in and testify.