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What we know about Trump Jr.'s exchanges with WikiLeaks

By Marshall Cohen, CNN Updated 12:58 AM ET, Tue November 14, 2017
http://www.cnn.com/2017/11/14/politics/donald-trump-jr-wikileaks-timeline/index.html

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Trump Jr. confirms that he exchanged private messages on Twitter with WikiLeaks

Messages show WikiLeaks reached out fairly often to Trump Jr. during 2016 US election

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(CNN)There is a web of connections between the Trump campaign, the anti-secrecy website WikiLeaks and the public disclosures it injected into the presidential campaign. Federal investigators are examining some of these relationships and whether any of them were part of an effort to coordinate with Russia's election-meddling efforts.

On Monday, it was revealed that Donald Trump Jr. exchanged some private messages on Twitter with WikiLeaks during the 2016 presidential campaign. The news was first reported by The Atlantic and later confirmed by Trump Jr., who posted screenshots of the messages.

A source familiar with the matter told CNN that Congress has known about these messages for a while and they came up during Trump Jr.'s closed-door testimony in September.

Donald Trump Jr. releases exchanges with WikiLeaks http://www.cnn.com/2017/11/13/politics/wikileaks-donald-trump-jr-2016-election/index.html

The messages show that WikiLeaks reached out fairly often to Trump Jr., who is only known to have replied on two occasions. Trump Jr.'s final response to WikiLeaks was in October 2016, though the WikiLeaks account continued its outreach until July 2017, according to the messages he released.

That being said, nothing happens in a vacuum, and while these messages were exchanged, WikiLeaks was busy releasing hacked materials. And all the while, Russian President Vladimir Putin was directing an operation to interfere in the US election, according to the US intelligence community.

Here is a timeline with what we know about Trump Jr.'s exchanges with WikiLeaks, the role WikiLeaks played, relevant public statements from the Trump campaign, and much more
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