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Not sure if this is old news, writ new again …
Or socially-relegated “Zombie News” that refuses to die.
But in either case, with the release of Senate Judiciary transcripts this week, it has become relevant again (at least in my estimation) ...
by Scott Nueman, NPR — Nov 14, 2017
During the 2016 presidential campaign, Donald Trump Jr. was in direct contact with WikiLeaks at the same time the muckraking website was publishing hacked emails from Democratic officials that proved damaging to the Clinton campaign, according to several major publications.
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U.S. intelligence agencies believe WikiLeaks served as a conduit for Russian efforts to sway the election through the release of hacked emails. An intelligence assessment put out in January concluded "with high confidence" that the GRU, Russia's foreign intelligence agency, "relayed material it acquired from the [Democratic National Committee] and senior Democratic officials to WikiLeaks."
The Atlantic reports that in its communications with Trump Jr., WikiLeaks "made a series of increasingly bold requests," which included "urging the Trump campaign on Election Day to reject the results of the election as rigged, and requesting that the president-elect tell Australia to appoint [Assange] ambassador to the United States."
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Now we can see, according to the recently released sworn testimony of Trump Junior, before the Senate Judiciary Committee, how he viewed his relationship with the “distributor of Hillary/DNC dirt” (aka. Wikileaks)
Trump Jr is answering the Investigator’s questions about WikiLeaks efforts to help the Trump Campaign:
Jr seemed a bit impatient there — overly-anxious to get “the next leak” from Wikileaks.
Hmmm, Where did he get those expectations from?
Once again the Senate Investigator questions Jr Trump, how did he respond to Wikileaks “recommendations” … in effect did he ‘co-ordinate’ with Wikileaks’ messaging effort:
So Donald Trump Jr actively communicated with WikiLeaks — the host of the wire-fraud DNC emails. And by his own admission, he took direction from them on more than one occasion, to actively smear their opponent, with this Russian supplied dirt. And though he feigned “ignorance” (before the Senate) on the “source of the WikiLeaks dirt” — he anxiously awaited the “next leak” and used it anyways — well because, that’s just what [cheating] Trumps do ...
Of course, given all of his evasive prior responses about the “calls to blocked numbers”, that Junior Trump made while setting up the Trump Tower meeting with the “well-connected lawyer” for the Russian Government — not everything Donald Jr testified to, can be completely considered:
“The Truth, the Whole Truth, and nothing but the Truth.”
(Fingers crossed, hope to die … throw some dirt in their eyes.)
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Although, this non-nonchalant statement, does have the ‘ring of truth’ to it:
pg 136: “… Hey [WikiLeaks] when am I going to receive the next leak.”