Donald Trump Jr. made senior Trump campaign staff, including Kushner and Bannon, aware that he was in touch with WikiLeaks

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November 13, 2017 11:02 PM

Donald Trump Jr. told high-level campaign officials including Steve Bannon and Jared Kushner that WikiLeaks contacted him on September 20, 2016.
The Atlantic published the full, secret correspondance between Trump Jr. and the Wikileaks account, which spanned 10 months.
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President Donald Trump's son told high-level Trump campaign officials, including Kellyanne Conway and Jared Kushner, that the self-described transparency organization WikiLeaks had made contact with him in September 2016.

WikiLeaks' outreach came on the heels of two other meetings between members of the campaign and Russia-linked officials.

Trump Jr., Paul Manafort, and Jared Kushner famously met with a Russian lawyer on June 9 on the promise of obtaining negative information about Hillary Clinton. Another low-level campaign staffer, George Papadopoulos, met with a Russia-linked professor in London in late April who told him that the Kremlin had "dirt" on Clinton in the form of "thousands of emails."

Trump Jr. responded to The Atlantic's report via Twitter on Monday:

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Assange also issued a lengthy response:

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