The Secret Correspondence Between Donald Trump Jr. and Wikileaks
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Just before the stroke of midnight on September 20, 2016, at the height of last year’s presidential election, the Wikileaks Twitter account sent a private direct message to Donald Trump Jr., the Republican nominee’s oldest son and campaign surrogate. “A PAC run anti-Trump site putintrump.org is about to launch,” Wikileaks wrote. “The PAC is a recycled pro-Iraq war PAC. We have guessed the password. It is ‘putintrump.’ See ‘About’ for who is behind it. Any comments?” (The site, which has since become a joint project with Mother Jones, was founded by Rob Glaser, a tech entrepreneur, and was funded by Progress for USA Political Action Committee.)
The next morning, about 12 hours later, Trump Jr. responded to Wikileaks. “Off the record I don’t know who that is, but I’ll ask around,” he wrote on September 21, 2016. “Thanks.”
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. [b]Wikileaks made a series of increasingly bold requests, including asking for Trump's tax returns, urging the Trump campaign 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.[/b]
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[url="https://www.theatlantic.com/amp/article/545738/"]The Atlantic[/url]
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“Hey Don. We have an unusual idea,” Wikileaks wrote on October 21, 2016. “Leak us one or more of your father’s tax returns.” Wikileaks then laid out three reasons why this would benefit both the Trumps and Wikileaks. One, The New York Times had already published a fragment of Trump’s tax returns on October 1; two, the rest could come out any time “through the most biased source (e.g. NYT/MSNBC).”
It is the third reason, though, Wikileaks wrote, that “is the real kicker.” “If we publish them it will dramatically improve the perception of our impartiality,” Wikileaks explained. “That means that the vast amount of stuff that we are publishing on Clinton will have much higher impact, because it won’t be perceived as coming from a ‘pro-Trump’ ‘pro-Russia’ source.” It then provided an email address and link where the Trump campaign could send the tax returns, and adds, “The same for any other negative stuff (documents, recordings) that you think has a decent chance of coming out. Let us put it out.”
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The Trump campaign sure did attract a cesspool of corruption. Holy crap.
[QUOTE=Llamaguy;52886644][url="https://www.theatlantic.com/amp/article/545738/"]The Atlantic[/url][/QUOTE]
It's hilarious that Assange wanted to be made ambassador. What the hell was he thinking? It's a shame that WikiLeaks has turned out to be so biased, as they have done a lot of important work in the past, and I now have to reevaluate the motive behind the information disseminated.
[QUOTE=Donald Trump;0]I love WikiLeaks![/QUOTE]
good to know wikileaks is confirmed to be shit
I practically guarantee that Wikileaks would not have published Trump's tax returns and instead held it as blackmail.
Also holy [I]shit[/I] how transparent are they about trying to abuse American and Australian diplomatic channels in order to effectively smuggle Julian Assange to freedom under diplomatic cover.
And I guess we now know why Trump said he would accept the results of the election...if he won.
[quote] requesting that the president-elect tell Australia to appoint Julian Assange ambassador to the United States.[/quote]
Man, Assange really has gone completely insane if he thought that had even the tiniest chance of working.
[QUOTE=Sir Whoopsalot;52886736]Man, Assange really has gone completely insane if he thought that had even the tiniest chance of working.[/QUOTE]
Well, let's think about why he thought he had a chance.
WikiLeaks is a known state actor of Russia. Trump is currently involved in a criminal investigation about obstruction of Justice/collusion with Russia. WikiLeaks was likely put on this task by Russia to help Trump campaign with damaging articles about Clinton. As a quid pro quo, Assange would ask in return to be an Ambassador.
[QUOTE=Sir Whoopsalot;52886736]Man, Assange really has gone completely insane if he thought that had even the tiniest chance of working.[/QUOTE]
Did you see the part where Assange is a real smart tough guy and the most famous Australian? I'd say he's more qualified than most of Trump's nominations.
I hope when all this Russia stuff is over we get the details on how WikiLeaks' ass was hollowed out to make room for Putin's hand. Like, when and how did WikiLeaks become such an unapologetic Russian puppet? It seems interesting that we can see the result but know seemingly nothing about the process.
[QUOTE=srobins;52886939]Like, when and how did WikiLeaks become such an unapologetic Russian puppet?[/QUOTE]
Probably a little bit after [URL="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julian_Assange#United_States_criminal_investigation"]this[/URL]
the bigger news here is that wikileaks is a cesspool. all don jr said basically equates to "no fuckin clue m8"
As a fun fact, if Trump Jr used that password to access that website, he committed a felony in violation of the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act. One more felony charge to chuck on to the pile committed by Trump's inner circle -- one more indictment to turn up the heat on this corrupt administration.
[QUOTE=Big Dumb American;52887149]As a fun fact, if Trump Jr used that password to access that website, he committed a felony in violation of the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act. One more felony charge to chuck on to the pile committed by Trump's inner circle -- one more indictment to turn up the heat on this corrupt administration.[/QUOTE]
Imagine if he not only used that password, but also sent the link & password to his colleagues and asked them to check it out. :v:
[QUOTE=BlindSniper17;52887403][media]https://twitter.com/DonaldJTrumpJr/status/930228239494209536[/media][/QUOTE]
Did he screenshot his phone, then print and scan it into a black and white scanner? Why all that eh? Looks like a court document.
[QUOTE=BlindSniper17;52887403][media]https://twitter.com/DonaldJTrumpJr/status/930228239494209536[/media][/QUOTE]
He seems really upset about congressional oversight.
Crossposting from other thread about this
[img]https://i.imgur.com/uDZ6AYt.png[/img]
Wikileaks, one year ago, denies "groundless and false" allegations that they colluded with Trump
"I did nothing wrong guys, here's clearly something my lawyer would not want me to show you proving I only was trying to break the law."
sometimes you feel sorry for the guy, at one point he was just a bar tender in colorado, but then you remember that don trump is ded and has been replaced with a trump lizard person
[QUOTE=Fourm Shark;52887868]How can anyone defend this.[/QUOTE]
Same way people can defend literally anything the 45th does.
[QUOTE=Dave_Parker;52887949]Does Twitter still have an active warrant canary?[/QUOTE]
I do not believe so.
[media][URL]https://twitter.com/ashk4n/status/715888642716250112[/URL][/media]
[QUOTE=Quark:;52888018]I do not believe so.
[media][URL]https://twitter.com/ashk4n/status/715888642716250112[/URL][/media][/QUOTE]
I get a 500 internal server error from that but that might just be me
[QUOTE=Snickerdoodle;52888104]I get a 500 internal server error from that but that might just be me[/QUOTE]
It's not just you; I'm getting it too.
Sorry, Facepunch wouldn't let me edit that post. The link is dead.
Here's an archived version: [URL]http://web.archive.org/web/20170313120709/https://www.wired.com/2016/03/reddit-warrant-canary-hints-it-got-a-national-security-letter/[/URL]
I wonder why the hell the article was deleted
[QUOTE=BlindSniper17;52887403][media]https://twitter.com/DonaldJTrumpJr/status/930228239494209536[/media][/QUOTE]
HE KEEPS FUCKING DOING IT!
[QUOTE=Sir Whoopsalot;52888292]HE KEEPS FUCKING DOING IT![/QUOTE]
Because it works. It's a pretty clever move to sway public opinion of whatever shit is going on at the moment. It takes the edge off, makes it a 'two-sided' affair in the eyes of most people, and gives every nobody in the world the ability to look at the documentation and go "Well this looks like a whole load of nothing!" while not knowing shit about it, instead of being told by lawyers and journalists that it is, in fact, a whole load of something.
You can't really blame Assange for wanting Trump to win when you consider the fact that Clinton wanted to assassinate him with a drone. It's hard to remain impartial when your life is at stake.
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