Somehow the Atlantic got their hot little liberal hands on messages that Donald Trump Jr. turned over to a congressional committee from Wikileaks, and they done published them.
In response, Donald Trump Jr. published them too:
Here is the entire chain of messages with @wikileaks (with my whopping 3 responses) which one of the congressional committees has chosen to selectively leak. How ironic! 1/3 pic.twitter.com/SiwTqWtykA
— Donald Trump Jr. (@DonaldJTrumpJr) November 14, 2017
Here’s the first batch of screenshots:
What the Atlantic noted is that Trump Jr. didn’t respond much. Democrats are taking this to mean that he was actively colluding – but there’s no sign of that really.
Here are the other two batches he posted:
2/3 pic.twitter.com/b1B9PBGl5t
— Donald Trump Jr. (@DonaldJTrumpJr) November 14, 2017
What’s interesting there is that it’s clear Wikileaks thought Trump would lose – and they wanted him to keep calling the election rigged.
3/3 pic.twitter.com/5FdeNrbg02
— Donald Trump Jr. (@DonaldJTrumpJr) November 14, 2017
And what some are noting is that right after Wikileaks ask Trumpy Jr. to push a story, his twitter is quiet – but pappa Donald’s twitter sends it out…
Wikileaks is also doing some damage control – especially of the claim that it sounds like they’re saying they want to publish Trump’s taxes so that they can APPEAR more fair, instead of being firmly in the pocket of Putin and the Kremlin:
https://twitter.com/JulianAssange/status/930208169946681344
WikiLeaks loves its pending publications and ignores those who ask for details. Trump Jr. was rebuffed just like Cambridge Analytica. In both cases WikiLeaks had publicly teased the publications. Thousands of people asked about them. 2/
— Julian Assange (@JulianAssange) November 13, 2017
WikiLeaks can be very effective at convincing even high profile people that it is their interest to promote links to its publications. 3/
— Julian Assange (@JulianAssange) November 13, 2017
WikiLeaks has such chutzpah that it allegedly tried to convince Trump Jr to leak his father's tax returns & his own "Russian lawyer meeting" emails (he did). WikiLeaks appears to beguile some people into transparency by convincing them that it is in their interest. 4/
— Julian Assange (@JulianAssange) November 14, 2017
We’re gonna hear a lot more about this…