told associates that he reached out to julian assange during the campaign to ask julian assange, in short, to offer the services of cambridge analytica to julian assange for the purposes of publish organize drib distribute bugting those 33,000 mission e-mails that republicans so badly wanted to find. alexander knicks also said, according to my sources, that julian assange rebuffed him. of a reported that i got a comment from julian assange who told me that that was correct, that he did, indeed, rebuff outreach from cambridge an ka. in the time since my story broke, the trump campaign as pushed back against it in kind of an oblique way suggested they relied more on the r&c for their data needs. however, the trump campaign paid cambridge analytica upwords of $5 million over the course of the election cycle. it's hard to distance yourself from a kwhp you've given them that much cash. >> so how are trump donors