The great unanswered (and so far, unasked by major media) question behind all of this is whether the Donald Trump campaign had any prior knowledge of the planned hack of the DNC emails, and if so, what level of complicity he provided. If he knew, and as a result, was somehow involved in the silencing of Sheremet - who would appear to have had some major dirt on Manafort - I shudder to think what he would attempt on the domestic front.
Personally, I don’t think that the RNC itself would be involved in something like this, because there are still people within the party structure who well remember how badly the Watergate break-in (and subsequent coverup) damaged them - and it isn’t a stretch at all to label this as a modern-day version of that infamous event.