Trump Data Guru: I Tried to Team Up With Julian Assange
Alexander Nix, who heads a controversial data analytics firm that worked for President Donald Trumps campaign, wrote in an email last year that he reached out to Wikileaks founder Julian Assange about Hillary Clintons missing 33,000 emails.
Nix, who heads Cambridge Analytica, told a third party that he reached out to Assange about his firm somehow helping the Wikileaks founder release Clintons missing emails, according to two sources familiar with a Congressional investigation into interactions between Trump associates and the Kremlin. Those sources also relayed that, according to Nixs email, Assange told the Cambridge Analytica CEO that he didnt want his help, and preferred to do the work on his own
f the claims Nix made in that email are true, this would be the closest known connection between Trumps campaign and Assange.
Cambridge Analytica did not provide comment for this story by press time. Wikileaks did not immediately respond to requests for comment.
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