Wikileaks Told Trump, Jr. To Tell His Dad To Not Concede If He Lost On Election Day
BY JOHN HALTIWANGER ON 11/13/17 AT 5:46 PM
Wikileaks urged Donald Trump Jr. to tell his father to not concede if he lost on Election Day, according to a
bombshell report from The Atlantic that alleges the president's eldest child and the transparency organization secretly corresponded in private direct messages on Twitter during the U.S. presidential campaign. The messages were turned over to Congress and copies were obtained by The Atlantic.
In one of the messages, sent at 6:35 p.m. on the day of the election, Wikileaks wrote, "Hi Don if your father loses we think it is much more interesting if he DOES NOT conceed [sic] and spends time CHALLENGING the media and other types of rigging that occurredas he has implied that he might do." Wikileaks reportedly claimed contesting the election could help his father further delegitimize the mainstream press and build the new media network he seemingly desired.
"The discussion can be transformative as it exposes media corruption, primary corruption, PAC corruption, etc.," the message added. A few hours later, when it became evident Donald Trump was indeed going to be the next president, Wikileaks sent another message that simply said, "Wow."
Trump Jr. did not respond to those messages and seemed to ignore many others, but there were a number of instances in which he did write back. He also never rebuffed Wikileaks for any of its requests or suggestions and sometimes even acted on its requests.
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