The Secret Correspondence Between Donald Trump Jr. and WikiLeaks
Source: The Atlantic
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 Trumps 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.
Read more: https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2017/11/the-secret-correspondence-between-donald-trump-jr-and-wikileaks/545738/
ProudProgressiveNow
(6,130 posts)Raven123
(4,942 posts)Blue_Tires
(55,445 posts)Mueller indictments, the Tuesday Night Massacre and now a direct link between *THE* most douchebaggy character in the whole White House and his opposite number in the Ecuadorian embassy who just happened to fix the whole election...
Chasstev365
(5,191 posts)I hope this story gains the traction it should!
bathroommonkey76
(3,827 posts)underpants
(183,051 posts)He just keeps bringing it.
Leghorn21
(13,527 posts)"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."
!!!!!!!! Yippie yi fuckin yo, TRAITORS
L. Coyote
(51,129 posts)Let me guess ..... no one told Nucking Futz.
bathroommonkey76
(3,827 posts)You need a subpoena to get DM's from Twitter, right?
I'm surprised Don Jr kept them in his inbox - I have noticed while using my account that if I delete a Twitter DM that it is gone forever- Jr. is a frickin idiot.
*Twitter's guidelines for law enforcement:
https://support.twitter.com/articles/41949
herding cats
(19,569 posts)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 just 15 minutes after it was sent, as The Wall Street Journals Byron Tau pointed out, Donald Trump himself tweeted, Very little pick-up by the dishonest media of incredible information provided by WikiLeaks. So dishonest! Rigged system!
Mr. Ected
(9,675 posts)We finally rope in Trump directly with this impromptu tweet, reacting contemporaneously with his receipt of the WikiLeaks info moments before.
Prima facie proof just made available to the US public.
Bernardo de La Paz
(49,075 posts)iluvtennis
(19,912 posts)rockfordfile
(8,709 posts)SayItLoud
(1,702 posts)Is one of the names in the sealed indictments for sure.
VermontKevin
(1,473 posts)Blue_Tires
(55,445 posts)Response to bathroommonkey76 (Original post)
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Blue_Tires
(55,445 posts)Blue_Tires
(55,445 posts)Roland99
(53,342 posts)Hey Don. We have an unusual idea, WikiLeaks wrote on October 21, 2016. Leak us one or more of your fathers tax returns. WikiLeaks then laid out three reasons why this would benefit both the Trumps and WikiLeaks. One, The New York Times had already published a fragment of Trumps tax returns on October 1; two, the rest could come out any time through the most biased source (e.g. NYT /MSNBC).
It is the third reason, though, WikiLeaks wrote, that is the real kicker. If we publish them it will dramatically improve the perception of our impartiality, WikiLeaks explained.
burrowowl
(17,656 posts)Blue_Tires
(55,445 posts)Blue_Tires
(55,445 posts)Blue_Tires
(55,445 posts)gademocrat7
(10,689 posts)Treasonous bastards.