'I know nothing about Wikileaks, it's not my thing,' Pres. Trump tells karentravers following arrest of founder Julian Assange. Then-candidate Trump repeatedly praised the organization during the final weeks of the 2016 campaign.
with representatives from WikiLeaks during the 2016 campaign through Twitter's private messaging service.
And in late January of this year, Trump's longtime friend and self-proclaimed 'dirty trickster' Roger Stone was indicted by Mueller's office, which included charges that Stone made false statements to Congress regarding his communications with associates about WIkiLeaks. In testimony before Congress in February, Trump's former personal attorney Michael Cohen alleged that he overheard Trump and Stone discussing the WikiLeaks email dump in the summer of 2016, but was unable to offer any concrete evidence supporting his statement. Both Trump and Stone have denied any such conversation took place.
Prior to his presidential run, Trump was a staunch critic of WikiLeaks and even suggested that the "death penalty" should be under consideration for the website's dissemination of classified U.S. embassy cables. And since taking office, the Trump Administration has mounted an aggressive campaign to further uncover WikiLeaks' connections to Russian intelligence and pressure the Ecuadorian government to remove Assange from its embassy in London. Just hours after Assange's arrest Thursday, U.S. attorneys in the Eastern District of Virginia unsealed a computer hacking indictment against the Wikileaks founder, and prosecutors said his arrest was pursuant to a U.S.-U.K.
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