Trump Jr, WikiLeaks exchanged messages

WASHINGTON: US President Donald Trump’s son released a series of private Twitter exchanges between himself and WikiLeaks during and after the 2016 election, including pleas from the website to publicise its leaks.

Donald Trump Jr’s release of the messages on Twitter came hours after The Atlantic first reported them on Monday. In the exchanges — some of them around the time that the website was releasing the stolen emails from Democrat Hillary Clinton’ s campaign c hair man—Wi kiLeaks praises his father’ s positive comments aboutWi ki Leaks and asks Trump Jr to release his father’s tax returns to the site.

The revelations are sure to increase calls in Congress to have Trump Jr testify publicly as part of several committee probes into Russian interference in the 2016 election. And they add a new element to the investigations that have been probing for months whether Trump’ s campaign colluded in anyway with the Russian government.

In an intelligence assessment released last January, the NSA, CIA and FBI concluded Russian military intelligence provided hacked information from the D NC and“senior Democratic officials” toWik iL ea ks.Wi ki Leaks has denied that Russia was the source of emails it released. AP