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Thread: Trump 2016: “WikiLeaks, I love WikiLeaks!” .. 2019: “I know nothing about WikiLeaks"

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    Default Trump 2016: “WikiLeaks, I love WikiLeaks!” .. 2019: “I know nothing about WikiLeaks"

    He does a good job of playing dumb. Maybe too good. Sure works for Trump fans.

    From the link below:

    "(Bloomberg) -- Donald Trump made no secret during the 2016 campaign that he appreciated WikiLeaks and founder Julian Assange for publishing thousands of hacked Democratic emails, many of them damaging to Hillary Clinton.

    "I love WikiLeaks," he said more than once as the group posted emails stolen by Russian operatives from Clinton campaign chairman John Podesta’s Gmail account.

    Once Trump won the presidency, though, the praise gave way to condemnation by top administration officials. His CIA director branded WikiLeaks “a non-state hostile intelligence service,” and his attorney general vowed to see Assange arrested.

    By Thursday, that turnabout was complete as Assange was expelled from his long-time hideout in Ecuador’s embassy in London in response to a U.S. extradition request and a criminal indictment. And Trump told reporters in the Oval Office, “I know nothing about WikiLeaks -- it’s not my thing.”

    That belies the praise he showered on the organization during his presidential campaign, as well as efforts by supporters to encourage its leaks of stolen Democratic documents -- which often came at key moments, such as just before the Democratic National Convention and just after the Washington Post released a 2005 audiotape of Trump boasting about sexually assaulting women.

    “WikiLeaks, I love WikiLeaks,” Trump said on Oct. 10, 2016, a few days after it began posting Podesta’s emails.

    "I have learned so much from WikiLeaks," he told Fox News’s Bret Baier later that month. In the weeks leading up to the election, he called the emails it posted "incredible," "amazing" and a "treasure trove."

    People close to Trump communicated with WikiLeaks in hopes of better weaponizing the hacked materials the group had obtained.

    Donald Trump Jr. has acknowledged exchanging several private Twitter messages with WikiLeaks in September 2016, weeks before the organization published hacked emails from the Clinton campaign, which would generate headlines that haunted the Democrat’s campaign through Election Day. In the messages, he mostly answered contacts from WikiLeaks politely or not at all, though he didn’t reject communications with the website."

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    Trump Goes From ‘I Love WikiLeaks’ to ‘I Know Nothing About WikiLeaks’

    "But by last November the president was telling reporters, “I don’t know anything about him. [Assange] Really, I don’t know much about him. I really don’t.”"

    So, which is it, President Trump? Do you not know anything - or do you not know much? Those two stories of yours are self-contradictory. Maybe neither is correct, eh?

    Same old same old.

    Deny - Deflect - Attack.
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