Email shows effort to give Trump campaign WikiLeaks documents

Russia Probe,WikiLeaks,Donald Trump,National Security,Defense And Security

Posted on AllSides December 8, 2017

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Candidate Donald Trump, his son Donald Trump Jr. and others in the Trump Organization received an email in September 2016 offering a decryption key and website address for hacked WikiLeaks documents, according to an email provided to congressional investigators.

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