President Donald Trump lauded WikiLeaks more than 140 times during his campaign. Yet he appeared to feign ignorance about the organization last week.
President Donald Trump meets with South Korean President Moon Jae-in in the Oval Office of the White House, Thursday, April 11, 2019, in Washington.White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders said Sunday that President Donald Trump was just joking in 2016 when he said he loved WikiLeaks.
Yet he appeared to feign ignorance about the organization last week, saying he knew"nothing about WikiLeaks," following the revelation that its founder Julian Assange has been indicted in the US.White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders told Fox News' Chris Wallace on Sunday that President Donald Trump was just joking when he said in 2016 that he loved the controversial website WikiLeaks.
Trump had heaped praise on the anti-secrecy organization during his presidential campaign in 2016, after it released hacked emails from the Clinton campaign. At a number of campaign events, Trump declared,"I love WikiLeaks.". Yet he appeared to feign ignorance about the organization last week.
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