Trump, who once said he ‘loved’ WikiLeaks, now claims to know nothing about the group.
By Shane Harris and Shane Harris Intelligence and national security reporter Email Bio Follow Greg Miller Greg Miller national security, intelligence, terrorism Email Bio Follow April 11 at 5:07 PM Years before his Justice Department charged WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange with conspiracy, Donald Trump praised the website for disclosing damaging information about his political opponents and encouraged his millions of supporters to read the organization’s latest document dumps.
“This WikiLeaks stuff is unbelievable,” Trump said two days later in Florida, as the site continued to post embarrassing stolen emails. “It tells you the inner heart; you gotta read it.” Two days after WikiLeaks’ request, he tweeted the link and encouraged his followers to “read about all the corruption and hypocrisy. . . . ”
In court documents, prosecutors from the special counsel’s office alleged that a senior Trump campaign official — it’s unclear who — was directed to contact Stone shortly after WikiLeaks published internal Democratic Party emails in July 2016 and to find out what else WikiLeaks had in store. In April 2017, under the leadership of Attorney General Jeff Sessions, Justice Department prosecutors looked for charges they might file against WikiLeaks members in connection with its 2010 publication of State Department cables and Pentagon documents, as well as any culpability the organization might have in the more recent disclosure of CIA computer-hacking tools, The Post reported at the time.
“He liked WikiLeaks because it was putting [Clinton] on the hot seat,” a former U.S. official with knowledge of his thinking said. “The saint becomes the villain when it’s your interests that are being exposed.”
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