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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsBreaking:Secret Correspondence Between Donald Trump Jr. and Wikileaks..
Though Trump Jr. mostly ignored the frequent messages from Wikileaks, he at times appears to have acted on its requests. When Wikileaks first reached out to Trump Jr. about putintrump.org, for instance, Trump Jr. followed up on his promise to ask around. According to a source familiar with the congressional investigations into Russian interference with the 2016 campaign, who requested anonymity because the investigation is ongoing, on the same day that Trump Jr. received the first message from Wikileaks, he emailed other senior officials with the Trump campaign, including Steve Bannon, Kellyanne Conway, Brad Parscale, and Trump son-in-law Jared Kushner, telling them Wikileaks had made contact. Kushner then forwarded the email to campaign communications staffer Hope Hicks. At no point during the 10-month correspondence does Trump, Jr. rebuff Wikileaks, which had published stolen documents and was already observed to be releasing information that benefited Russian interests.
On October 3, 2016, Wikileaks wrote again. Hiya, itd be great if you guys could comment on/push this story, Wikileaks suggested, attaching a quote from then-Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton about wanting to just drone Wikileaks founder, Julian Assange.
Already did that earlier today, Trump Jr. responded an hour-and-a-half later. Its amazing what she can get away with.wo minutes later, Trump Jr. wrote again, asking, Whats behind this Wednesday leak I keep reading about? The day before, Roger Stone, an informal advisor to Donald Trump, had tweeted, Wednesday@HillaryClinton is done. #Wikileaks.
Wikileaks didnt respond to that message, but on October 12, 2016, the account again messaged Trump Jr. Hey Donald, great to see you and your dad talking about our publications, Wikileaks wrote. (At a rally on October 10, Donald Trump had proclaimed, I love Wikileaks!)
Strongly suggest your dad tweets this link if he mentions us, Wikileaks went on, pointing Trump Jr. to the link wlsearch.tk, which it said would help Trumps followers dig through the trove of stolen documents and find stories. Theres many great stories the press are missing and were sure some of your follows [sic] will find it, Wikileaks went on. Btw we just released Podesta Emails Part 4.
Trump Jr. did not respond to this message, but two days later, on October 14, 2016, he tweeted out the link Wikileaks had provided him. For those who have the time to read about all the corruption and hypocrisy all the @wikileaks emails are right here: http://wlsearch.tk/, he wrote.
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2017/11/the-secret-correspondence-between-donald-trump-jr-and-wikileaks/545738/
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Breaking:Secret Correspondence Between Donald Trump Jr. and Wikileaks.. (Original Post)
HipChick
Nov 2017
OP
And Trey Gowdy, Jason Chaffetz, Fox, and the RNC either held hearings or pushed memes that ....
Botany
Nov 2017
#12
Collusion. Some wikileaks servers hosted in Russia. Any SigInt on Putin requests commands?
Bernardo de La Paz
Nov 2017
#11
GoCubsGo
(32,086 posts)1. Well, it's not "secret" anymore.
I'm sure it's just the tip of the ice berg.
malaise
(269,135 posts)2. My oh My!
Rec
LOCK THEM UP!
Botany
(70,551 posts)12. And Trey Gowdy, Jason Chaffetz, Fox, and the RNC either held hearings or pushed memes that ....
.... mirrored the info from wikileaks and that information was stolen by Russia.
LOCK THEM UP!
joshcryer
(62,276 posts)3. Well, well.
Who would've thought.
MontanaMama
(23,334 posts)4. As Malcolm Nance frequently reminds us...
Coincidence takes careful planning. Drip drip drip.
Cracklin Charlie
(12,904 posts)5. He tweeted a link to Wikileaks's stolen information?
You in trouble, Half Scoop...
HipChick
(25,485 posts)8. Go Directly to Jail
don't pass go..
aeromanKC
(3,326 posts)6. I wonder if Mueller knows this?
I guess we will find out.
HipChick
(25,485 posts)7. He does now...
herding cats
(19,566 posts)9. Some nuggets in the article
herding cats
(19,566 posts)10. Look what Trump was tweeting 15 minutes after the request by WikiLeaks!
Link to tweet
?s=17
Link to tweet
?s=17
Thats a great catch. A total of 15 minutes elapsed between the WikiLeaks request and the presidents tweet. Weve updated:
Bernardo de La Paz
(49,027 posts)11. Collusion. Some wikileaks servers hosted in Russia. Any SigInt on Putin requests commands?
This is the quid pro quo. Stroke Wikileaks back for feeding them int they received from Russia / Russian hackers.