Donald Trump Jr exchanged messages with Wikileaks during election campaign
Donald Trump’s son Donald Jr was in contact with whistleblowing site Wikileaks in the crucial weeks leading up to the 2016 presidential election, it has emerged.
Trump exchanged a handful of messages with Wikileaks via social media site Twitter between September and October of last year and copies of the correspondence were then leaked to Atlantic magazine.
The messages were exchanged at the height of Wikileaks' publication of a series of hacked e-mails from senior Democratic figures, including Hillary Clinton’s campaign chief John Podesta.
They showed Wikileaks courting Trump Jr and pointing him towards publications available on its site which contained leaked emails from Podesta.
Trump Jr's lawyers said they handed over copies of the conversation to investigators in the Senate who were busy trying to establish the extent to which Russia attempted to meddle in the elections.
"We can say with confidence that we have no concerns about these documents and any questions raised about them have been easily answered in the appropriate forum," his legal team said.
Releasing the messages via Twitter himself, Trump Jr sarcastically commented that he had only given a 'whopping' three replies to the repeated requests.
Here is the entire chain of messages with @wikileaks (with my whopping 3 responses) which one of the congressional committees has chosen to selectively leak. How ironic! 1/3 pic.twitter.com/SiwTqWtykA
— Donald Trump Jr. (@DonaldJTrumpJr) November 14, 2017