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The Secret Correspondence Between Donald Trump Jr. and WikiLeaks
The Atlantic writes:
The transparency organization asked the president's son for his cooperation—in sharing its work, in contesting the results of the election, and in arranging for Julian Assange to be Australia's ambassador to the United States.
[...] 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 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 Trump's 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.
Its a quite long, but interesting article.
Kushner Failed to Hand Over Emails
Senators: Kushner Didn't Disclose Emails On WikiLeaks, 'Russian Overture'
Senior White House adviser and son-in-law to the president Jared Kushner failed to hand over to Senate investigators emails concerning contacts with WikiLeaks and a "Russian backdoor overture," according to a letter sent by two senior lawmakers.
The letter, released Thursday by Sen. Chuck Grassley, the chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, and its ranking Democrat, Sen. Dianne Feinstein, says Kushner failed to turn over "September 2016 email communications to Mr. Kushner concerning WikiLeaks" and other emails pertaining to a "Russian backdoor overture and dinner invite."
(Score: 1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Monday November 20 2017, @08:40PM (3 children)
So he was in contact with wikileaks, getting nothing for his effort. This is legal. Given the intense campaign, he may have legitimately forgotten. Even if not, it pales in comparison to pretty much every politician in DC.
Just a few weeks ago, Hillary was denying that she had a role in the phony "dossier". Now we find that she knew, as you'd expect for $millions that were laundered through a law firm in violation of campaign finance laws. Obama claimed to not know about her email server, yet this week we just got emails released by the state department that show he did know.
Here, have a Bible verse, Matthew 7:3-5 from New International Version:
(Score: 5, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Monday November 20 2017, @09:07PM
Whataboutthestrawman?
(Score: 3, Funny) by realDonaldTrump on Monday November 20 2017, @09:21PM
Thank you! Jared had a private EMAIL, but #CrookedHillary [twitter.com] had a private EMAIL SERVER. And she deleted over 30 THOUSAND EMAILS. What she did is totally unpresidented.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday November 20 2017, @09:28PM
I gotta love how the Rs are still bringing up Hilary's emails:
https://www.politico.com/story/2017/09/25/jared-kushner-private-email-investigation-243117 [politico.com]
Obviously, they know better than to do that.