{"id":30284,"date":"2017-11-14T13:26:53","date_gmt":"2017-11-14T21:26:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=30284"},"modified":"2017-11-14T13:26:53","modified_gmt":"2017-11-14T21:26:53","slug":"uss-little-trump-sunk-in-the-atlantic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2017\/11\/14\/uss-little-trump-sunk-in-the-atlantic\/","title":{"rendered":"USS Little Trump Sunk in the Atlantic"},"content":{"rendered":"

Every time I say it can’t be any more obvious that Trump is a Russian mole, more evidence surfaces that proves me wrong.  Now we have a direct link between Wikileaks, Donald Trump and his son, as this superb investigative article in the Atlantic reveals.<\/font><\/p>\n

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Just before the stroke of midnight on September 20, 2016, at the height of last year\u2019s presidential election, the WikiLeaks Twitter account sent a private direct message to Donald Trump Jr., the Republican nominee\u2019s oldest son and campaign surrogate. \u201cA PAC run anti-Trump site putintrump.org is about to launch,\u201d WikiLeaks wrote. \u201cThe PAC is a recycled pro-Iraq war PAC. We have guessed the password. It is \u2018putintrump.\u2019 See \u2018About\u2019 for who is behind it. Any comments?\u201d (The site, which has since become a joint project with Mother Jones, was founded by Rob Glaser<\/a>, a tech entrepreneur, and was funded by Progress for USA Political Action Committee.)<\/p>\n

The next morning, about 12 hours later, Trump Jr. responded to WikiLeaks. \u201cOff the record I don\u2019t know who that is, but I\u2019ll ask around,\u201d he wrote on September 21, 2016. \u201cThanks.\u201d<\/p>\n

The messages, obtained by The Atlantic, were also turned over by Trump Jr.\u2019s lawyers to congressional investigators. They are part of a long\u2014and largely one-sided\u2014correspondence between WikiLeaks and the president\u2019s son that continued until at least July 2017. The messages show WikiLeaks, a radical transparency organization that the American intelligence community believes<\/a> was chosen by the Russian government to disseminate the information it had hacked, actively soliciting Trump Jr.\u2019s cooperation. WikiLeaks made a series of increasingly bold requests, including asking for Trump\u2019s tax returns, urging the Trump campaign on Election Day to reject the results of the election as rigged, and requesting that the president-elect tell Australia to appoint Julian Assange ambassador to the United States…<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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This is just a taste.  I encourage you to read this in its entirety.<\/font><\/p>\n

Fortunately for us, Rachel Maddow<\/a> breaks this down for us in two segments.  In the first, she provides more details.<\/font><\/p>\n