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Showing Original Post only (View all)WikiLeaks privately asked Don Jr to tweet out a link to its Podesta email dump...and he did [View all]
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More Trump-Russia collusion! WikiLeaks privately asked @DonaldJTrumpJr to tweet out a link to its Podesta email dump...and he did.
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More Trump-Russia collusion! WikiLeaks privately asked @DonaldJTrumpJr to tweet out a link to its Podesta email dump...and he did.
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The Secret Correspondence Between Donald Trump Jr. and Wikileaks
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2017/11/the-secret-correspondence-between-donald-trump-jr-and-wikileaks/545738/
Just before the stroke of midnight on September 20, 2016, at the height of last years presidential election, the Wikileaks Twitter account sent a private direct message to Donald Trump Jr., the Republican nominees oldest son and campaign surrogate. A PAC run anti-Trump site putintrump.org is about to launch, Wikileaks wrote. The PAC is a recycled pro-Iraq war PAC. We have guessed the password. It is putintrump. See About for who is behind it. Any comments? (The site, which has since become a joint project with Mother Jones, was founded by Rob Glaser, a tech entrepreneur, and was funded by Progress for USA Political Action Committee.)
The next morning, about 12 hours later, Trump Jr. responded to Wikileaks. Off the record I dont know who that is, but Ill ask around, he wrote on September 21, 2016. Thanks.
The messages, obtained by The Atlantic, were also turned over by Trump Jr.s lawyers to congressional investigators. They are part of a longand largely one-sidedcorrespondence between Wikileaks and the presidents son that continued until at least July 2017. The messages show Wikileaks, a radical transparency organization that the American intelligence community believes was chosen by the Russian government to disseminate the information it had hacked, actively soliciting Trump Jr.s cooperation. Wikileaks made a series of increasingly bold requests, including asking for Trump's tax returns, urging the Trump campaign on Election Day to reject the results of the election as rigged, and requesting that the president-elect tell Australia to appoint Julian Assange ambassador to the United States.
Over the last several months, we have worked cooperatively with each of the committees and have voluntarily turned over thousands of documents in response to their requests, said Alan Futerfas, an attorney for Donald Trump Jr. Putting aside the question as to why or by whom such documents, provided to Congress under promises of confidentiality, have been selectively leaked, we can say with confidence that we have no concerns about these documents and any questions raised about them have been easily answered in the appropriate forum. Wikileaks did not respond to requests for comment.
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WikiLeaks privately asked Don Jr to tweet out a link to its Podesta email dump...and he did [View all]
Miles Archer
Nov 2017
OP
The things we'd learn if anyone ever hacked Wikileaks and posted all of its emails ....
L. Coyote
Nov 2017
#32
Given that US intelligence places WikiLeaks as an arm of the Russian government...
joshcryer
Nov 2017
#3
Ecuador may be cooperating with those spying on Assange. Meanwhile, Wikileaks is in Moscow.
L. Coyote
Nov 2017
#22
"dramatically improve perception of our impartiality". Theres some quid pro quo. . . nt
Bernardo de La Paz
Nov 2017
#13
The Propaganda wars are far more complex than the simple minded mass media would want
Fred Sanders
Nov 2017
#29
Collusion. Some wikileaks servers hosted in Russia. Any SigInt on Putin requests commands?
Bernardo de La Paz
Nov 2017
#12
WL asks Jr 2 tell Sr to mention WL link. 15 mins later Sr tweets dishonest MSM ignoring WL
Madam45for2923
Nov 2017
#24
Screaming rigged election while rigging the electon is as evil as it gets. We need a fresh election
Fred Sanders
Nov 2017
#28
Julian trying to wrangle an 'ambassadorship' (wink-wink) for services rendered
Blue_Tires
Nov 2017
#26