Headline Roundup • November 14th, 2017
Donald Trump Jr. and WikiLeaks Correspondence
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The Hill
President Trump tweeted about the hacked emails of then-Clinton campaign chairman John Podesta approximately 15 minutes after WikiLeaks requested his son Donald Trump Jr. to, The Atlantic reported Monday.
The usual suspects in the press have been going virtually wall-to-wall with this story -- taking breaks to cover the Roy Moore debacle -- and the headline admittedly doesn't look great for Team Trump. "The Secret Correspondence Between Donald Trump Jr and Wikileaks" has an ominous air to it, and at first blush, it appeared as though the president's eldest son would once again provide serious fodder to support the "collusion" narrative.
Just before the stroke of midnight on September 20, 2016, at the height of last year’s presidential election, the WikiLeaks Twitter account sent a private direct message to Donald Trump Jr., the Republican nominee’s oldest son and campaign surrogate. “A PAC run anti-Trump site putintrump.org is about to launch,” WikiLeaks wrote. “The PAC is a recycled pro-Iraq war PAC. We have guessed the password. It is ‘putintrump.’ See ‘About’ for who is behind it. Any comments?” (The site, which has since become a joint project with Mother Jones, was founded...
