The secret correspondence between Donald Trump Jr. And wikileaks

[Jacque67 7,328]

Just before the stroke of midnight on September 20, 2016, at the height of last year’s presidential election, the Wikileaks Twitter account sent a private direct message to Donald Trump Jr., the Republican nominee’s 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 don’t know who that is, but I’ll ask around,” he wrote on September 21, 2016. “Thanks.”

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The messages, obtained by The Atlantic, were also turned over by Trump Jr.’s lawyers to congressional investigators. They are part of a long—and largely one-sided—correspondence between Wikileaks and the president’s son that continued until at least July 2017. The messages show Wikileaks, a radical transparency organization that the American intelligence community believeswas 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 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.

[Jacque67 7,328]

https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2017/11/the-secret-correspondence-between-donald-trump-jr-and-wikileaks/545738/

 

K, Alan!

Jr can join Julian in his cupboard under the stairs at the Ecuadorean Embassy in London!

[Amica Nostra 4,803]

how do you get this before me?

 

[Jacque67 7,328]

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.

(Same article)

 

[Jacque67 7,328]

2 minutes ago, Il Mango Dulce said:

how do you get this before me?

 

 

[Jacque67 7,328]

So in this new bizarre world, Eric has ended up being the smart one! Incredible!

[yuna628 9,541]

Ambassador to Australia?!  The tone of these DMs imply to me that for some of it, which wasn't responded to, were follow-up questions/thoughts via some other channel of communication.

[The Nature Boy 7,659]

[Jacque67 7,328]

https://mobile.twitter.com/ByronTau/status/930189954927521793/photo/1

 

Don Jr and the GRU. Fantastic.

[Jacque67 7,328]

So 15 minutes elapsed between Wikileaks request and the president's tweet. The original article has been updated to reflect this, I believe.

 

Lock them up!

[Jacque67 7,328]

I cannot confirm the alleged DM's from @DonaldJTrumpJr to @WikiLeaks. @WikiLeaks does not keep such records and the Atlantic's presentation is edited and clearly does not have the full context. However, even those published by the Atlantic show that: 1/

43 minutes ago

julian assange

[Jacque67 7,328]

Blue diamond boy tags his bf and says wikileaks doesn't keep such records-very convenient. "full context"= Putin told me to do it?

[Jacque67 7,328]

https://www.rawstory.com/2017/11/pence-denied-trump-campaign-was-in-cahoots-with-wikileaks-the-same-day-jr-sent-out-a-link-provided-by-wikileaks/

crooked Pence.

Lock him up, too!

[Jacque67 7,328]

Uh oh. Fredo's been drinking-futerfas won't be happy! The guy who promoted wikileaks complaint about leaks.

Here is the entire chain of messages with @wikileaks (with my whopping 3 responses) which one of the congressional committees has chosen to selectively leak. How ironic! 1/3 

22 minutes ago

donald trump jr

 

[CaliCat 3,957]

1 hour ago, Jacque67 said:

So 15 minutes elapsed between Wikileaks request and the president's tweet. The original article has been updated to reflect this, I believe.

 

Lock them up!

I'm sure it was a coincidence.