President Donald Trump’s oldest son released a series of private Twitter exchanges between himself and WikiLeaks during and after the 2016 election, including pleas from the website to publicize its leaks.
Donald Trump Jr.’s release of the messages on Twitter came hours after The Atlantic first reported them Monday. In the exchanges — some of them around the time that the website was releasing the stolen emails from Democrat Hillary Clinton’s campaign chairman — WikiLeaks praises his father’s positive comments about WikiLeaks and asks Trump Jr. to release his father’s tax returns to the site.
The revelations are sure to increase calls in Congress to have Trump Jr. testify publicly as part of several committee probes into Russian interference in the 2016 election. And they add a new element to the investigations that have been probing for months whether Trump’s campaign colluded in any way with the Russian government.
All of the direct messages in question were released by Trump Jr. to the public on Twitter. There are only three messages from Trump Jr. to the WikiLeaks account. None of the messages revealed any private or incriminating information. One message was general conversation about how Hillary Clinton “gets away with everything.” Another DM (direct message) was asking the WikiLeaks account about what they were going to release on Wednesday of that week. Overall, a big giant nothingburger.
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