No, the request was sarcastic, it was for Hillary's 30,000 emails that she deleted from her personal email server as being "not work-related", the ones from wel

No, the request was sarcastic, it was for Hillary's 30,000 emails that she deleted from her personal email server as being "not work-related", the ones from well before the campaign. The sarcastic request was made right after the July DNC leak (the DNC primaries shenanigans). It was not a request for Podesta's, or any other DNC operative's, emails. Since the DNC leak had already occurred, and since Podesta's emails had already been hacked (but not yet released), it's not as if Russia (if it's certain they're behind Guccifer 2.0 and the Podesta hack) needed Trump to ask (sarcastically or not) for more DNC or HRC material before they'd go looking for it. Since Hillary stated repeatedly that she (her lawyers) deleted the 30,000 emails, if Russia could "find" them at all, it would mean that either Hillary lied and had them backed up somewhere, or that Russia was in possession of them long before Trump jokingly asked for them.