Donald Trump Jr. Had Direct Contact With WikiLeaks During CampaignEnlarge this image toggle caption Richard Drew/AP Richard Drew/APUpdated at 10:30 a.m. ETDuring the 2016 presidential campaign, Donald Trump Jr. was in direct contact with WikiLeaks at the same time the muckraking website was publishing hacked emails from Democratic officials that proved damaging to the Clinton campaign, according to several major publications. Following the reports, Trump Jr. acknowledged the contact in a tweet detailing one exchange with the radical transparency organization. That back-and-forth — or at least a portion of it — was released in a tweet by Trump Jr. on Monday. The messages between WikiLeaks and the Trump campaign come months after revelations that Trump Jr. exchanged emails with Kremlin-linked lawyer Natalia Veselnitskaya and met with her in Trump Tower seeking "dirt" on Clinton.
The Secret Correspondence Between Donald Trump Jr. and WikiLeaks
The next morning, about 12 hours later, Trump Jr. responded to WikiLeaks. It's not clear what investigators will make of the correspondence, which represents a small portion of the thousands of documents Donald Trump Jr.'s lawyer says he turned over to them. Though Trump Jr. mostly ignored the frequent messages from WikiLeaks, he at times appears to have acted on its requests. #WikiLeaks." WikiLeaks didn't 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. Rigged system!" Two days later, on October 14, 2016, Trump Jr. tweeted out the link WikiLeaks had provided him.
WikiLeaks Was Really, Really Dumb to Send Twitter DMs to Donald Trump Jr.
referring to The transparency group, led by its chief-in-exile Julian Assange, sent a series of direct messages over Twitter to Donald Trump Jr. starting on Sept. 20, 2016, less than two months before Election Day, according to a report in the Atlantic. Advertisement"Off the record I don't know who that is, but I'll ask around," Donald Trump Jr. responded. If the Trump campaign did use the password to sneak into the backend of an opposition website, WikiLeaks potentially led the Trump campaign to participate in criminal activity. U.S. intelligence officials reported in January that they've assessed with "high confidence" that WikiLeaks worked with Russian military intelligence to release stolen emails from the Democratic National Convention in July 2016. WikiLeaks, according to the Atlantic's report, continued to contact Donald Trump Jr. months after his father, Donald Trump, entered the White House and while multiple investigations into the Trump campaign's possible collusion with Russian agents were well under way.The clear timeline suggesting Donald Trump Jr. coordinated with WikiLeaks
Donald Trump, Jr. (Saul Loeb/AFP/Getty Images)On Oct. 14, 2016, Mike Pence took to Fox News and flat-out denied that the Trump campaign was "in cahoots" with WikiLeaks. We've just learned that Donald Trump Jr. exchanged Twitter messages with WikiLeaks around the same time Pence denied the campaign was "in cahoots" with WikiLeaks. 1/3 pic.twitter.com/SiwTqWtykA — Donald Trump Jr. (@DonaldJTrumpJr) November 14, 2017Below is a timeline breaking it all down. Sept. 21: Trump Jr. responds by saying, "Off the record I don't know who that is but I'll ask around. So it's possible the juxtaposition of Trump Sr.'s Oct. 12 tweet and the WikiLeaks message to Trump Jr. is just a coincidence.
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