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WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has confirmed that he received an email from the chief executive of data firm Cambridge Analytica inquiring about Hillary Clinton's deleted emails:
The WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange said on Wednesday that he had rebuffed a request for help last year from the head of a data firm that worked for Donald J. Trump and is now facing congressional scrutiny.
On Twitter, Mr. Assange said he had been approached before the 2016 election by Alexander Nix, the chief executive of Cambridge Analytica, which worked for Mr. Trump during the final months of the campaign. Mr. Assange did not disclose what kind of help Mr. Nix sought, only that he had declined the request. "I can confirm an approach by Cambridge Analytica," Mr. Assange wrote, "and can confirm that it was rejected by WikiLeaks."
But The Daily Beast reported on Wednesday that Mr. Nix had emailed Mr. Assange looking for copies of more than 30,000 emails that were deleted from Hillary Clinton's private server and never publicly released. Mrs. Clinton has said that the emails were personal in nature.
[...] It is also unclear why Mr. Nix would have believed that Mr. Assange had copies of the missing emails. Earlier last year, WikiLeaks had posted a searchable database of more than 50,000 emails from Mrs. Clinton's private server, all of them previously released by the State Department. But Mr. Trump himself seemed eager to find the missing emails: At a campaign rally in July, Mr. Trump publicly asked Russia to obtain the deleted emails.
"There's no such thing as a dumb question." :-) 😂😂😂
Also at The Guardian, CNN, The Hill, and Politico.
Previously: Assange Thanks USA for Forcing Him to Invest in Booming Bitcoin
(Score: 2, Troll) by realDonaldTrump on Friday October 27 2017, @11:53AM (5 children)
Boy, that Wikileaks has done a job on her, hasn’t it? I’ll tell you, this Wikileaks stuff is unbelievable. It tells you the inner heart, you gotta read it and you gotta maybe get it because they’re not putting it out. They want to put it out but they can’t do that because without the media and without the press #CrookedHillary is nothing. Zero. And the press forgot her birthday. That's right, she had a birthday, one of many, yesterday. But nobody remembered because I released the #JFKFiles (so interesting). Released some of the JFK files. I kept them in suspense! A promise kept. And everybody forgot her birthday. Because she's no JFK, believe me. Sad & lonely, not presidential at all! She’s nothing, OK? She’s nothing.
We dodged a bullet, folks. If #CrookedHillary had won, we would be on a fast track to war with Russia right now. She made that perfectly clear. And she sold them a huge percentage of our uranium. Big problem for our nuclear arsenal. Look at the Clinton Foundation, very very crooked. Then look at the Donald J. Trump Foundation, amazing work! #CrookedHillary had a private EMAIL server. From which she deleted many, many EMAILS. Left them out for hackers to find, and dleted them. No private EMAIL servers in my administration ever! pic.twitter.com/uKh5sCFfrv [t.co] #MAGA 🇺🇸
(Score: 1, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Friday October 27 2017, @12:54PM (1 child)
I'm going out on a limb here to suggest that you are a person with a lot of free time on your hands.
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Friday October 27 2017, @08:23PM
>> a person with a lot of free time
You are correct, and that is exactly why you should play along without being too conspicuously patronizing. The posts are cringeworthy but consider the broader perspective:
This is an individual who dedicates a ridiculous amount of time to writing first-person fanfiction.
Everyone should be relieved this person is not spending that time driving around in a van promising candy to young children. After the initial face-palm when seeing the username, I just skip reading any of the text and may occasionally reply with words of encouragement -- knowing full well what the alternative may be.
(Score: 2, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Friday October 27 2017, @04:10PM (2 children)
Why haven't you tweeted that Hillary shot JFK yet?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday October 27 2017, @09:28PM (1 child)
Because he already accused Ted Cruz's father of being involved [nytimes.com]
(Score: 2) by realDonaldTrump on Saturday October 28 2017, @03:48AM
I said he colluded, I didn't say he helped with the shooting. Never said that. But these documents are full of surprises. Lots of surprises, folks. Enjoy!