Donald trump jr. Released a string of is these during the president ial campaign. This follows a report about these exchanges. Though most of the communications were one sided, trump junior did interact on a number of occasions. Wikileaks told him, quote, a the r. A. C. Is a recycled proiraq war pac. We have guessed the password, it is putintrump. Done responded, off the record, i dont know who that is boo but ill ask around, according to te atlantic he did ask around, including trumps soninlaw jared kushner, telling them wikileaks had reached out. We dont know in what context he was saying that, but kushner forwarded that email onto hope hicks. In a separate exchange, done junior reached out october 23rd
asking wikileaks about an impending release writing whats behind the wednesday leak i keep reading about . Wikileaks didnt respond, but just four days later it released John Podestas emails on the same day as youll recall the u. S. Intelligence community condemned russia for using wik
we have hypothesized this since the day it came out. among the questions for mueller, why wasn t donald trump jr. interviewed. a lot of smart people, including chuck here, have offered the very likely possibility that he took the fifth, whether or not he did it in front of the grand jury or over the phone through his attorney is unclear at this point. but what would it say about the breakdown? seems like junior taking the fifth, mueller not pressing for an interview with donald trump, those sort of speak to the atmospherics, dynamic between the special probe and trump family. look, the trump family did not cooperate. they tried to kill this investigation. junior didn t testify because he didn t want to incriminate himself. the same reason donald trump only agreed to limited written answers because that entire family plays dirty pool. what i would say to kind of wrap a lot of this together, my lament, my frustration, is that politicians either follow public opinion, or they rise up an
president trump and donald trump jr. ahead of the 2016 meeting and there was one phone call and that number was blocked out and it is uncertain if that was president donald trump and donald trump junior didn t know if that conversation was with him. let s talk about the phone call with the panel. so trump jr. made a 11 minute phone call that was blocked after setting up the meeting with the russian government lawyer. trump jr. testified he didn t remember who he called during the 11-minute call and cory l u lewandowski said president trump s home number was a blocked number. a lot of people have blocked numbers. that doesn t mean anything. asked if his dad has a blocked number and trump jr. said he didn t know, which is interesting if you say about your dad s phone number. do you find this credible?
ana in ana, what do you make of these communications? it makes you ask the question what does mueller know we still don t know? every single day a shoe seems to drop. it s hard to justify done junior didn t tell his father about the meeting. donald trump was in that tower the same day the meeting occurred. the fact that he tweeted 15 minutes after his son got that tweet makes people question whether or not that was accurate. also remember wikileaks came across as an objective news site. we got from these direct messages with don junior that why doesn t he release tax returns through us so we can put it out so it did you want look like we re pushing anti-hillary
asking wikileaks about an impending release writing what s behind the wednesday leak i keep reading about? wikileaks didn t respond, but just four days later it released john podesta s e-mails on the same day as you ll recall the u.s. intelligence community condemned russia for using wikileaks to release the stolen e-mails. even is it that, wikileaks reached out again suggesting done junior tweet out a link to his formals to search the leaked podesta e-mails. john jury tweeted out this. for those who had the time to read about the hypocrisy, all the wikileaks e-mails are right here. and he included the link that wikileaks had given him. pam, explain what the campaign was saying about wikileaks during this time period. so wikileaks was communicating with done junior.