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In recent months, the WikiLeaks Twitter feed has started to look more like the stream of an opposition research firm working mainly to undermine Hillary Clinton than the updates of a non-partisan platform for whistleblowers.  The Intercept  August 6 2016

The Secret Correspondence Between Donald Trump Jr. and WikiLeaks  The Atlantic

November 13, 2017 “The transparency organization asked the president’s son for his cooperation—in sharing its work, in contesting the results of the election, and in arranging for Julian Assange to be Australia’s ambassador to the United States.”

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

The next morning, about 12 hours later, Trump Jr. responded to WikiLeaks. “Off the record I don’t know who that is, but I’ll ask around,” he wrote on September 21, 2016. “Thanks.”

The messages, obtained by The Atlantic, were also turned over by Trump Jr.’s lawyers to congressional investigators. They are part of a long—and largely one-sided—correspondence between WikiLeaks and the president’s son that continued until at least July 2017. The messages show WikiLeaks, a radical transparency organization that the American intelligence community believes was chosen by the Russian government to disseminate the information it had hacked, actively soliciting Trump Jr.’s cooperation. WikiLeaks made a series of increasingly bold requests, including asking for Trump’s 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.

According to a source familiar with the congressional investigations into Russian interference with the 2016 campaign, who requested anonymity because the investigation is ongoing, on the same day that Trump Jr. received the first message from WikiLeaks, he emailed other senior officials with the Trump campaign, including Steve Bannon, Kellyanne Conway, Brad Parscale, and Trump son-in-law Jared Kushner, telling them WikiLeaks had made contact. Kushner then forwarded the email to campaign communications staffer Hope Hicks. At no point during the 10-month correspondence does Trump Jr. rebuff WikiLeaks, which had published stolen documents and was already observed to be releasing information that benefited Russian interests.” The Atlantic for more 

Trump Jr. corresponded with WikiLeaks ahead of election Axios

“Why it matters: It was WikiLeaks that published emails stolen by Russian actors from Hillary Clinton’s campaign and the Democratic National Committee. In the messages to Trump Jr., WikiLeaks seems to be offering to help the Trump campaign, while seeking help in countering the perception it was aligned with Russia.” Axios

So is Wikileaks really supported by Russia? December 15, 2016 by badtux99

Wikileaks is Connected to Russia – Despite Their Claims

Patribotics, March 12, 2017  “In turn, this proves Wikileaks gained Russian hosting on September 30th 2016, one week before the Podesta emails were made public. Wikileaks got Russian Federation virtual addresses one week before the Podesta emails. Let that sink in.

Now the actual owner of the IP addresses is a man by the name of Peter Chayanov, whose IP addresses have hosted spammers and hackers, according to my sources, who work in internet backbone companies.”   Hostkey is the domain host. https://patribotics.blog/2017/03/12/wikileaks-is-connected-to-russia-despite-their-claimswikileaks-is-connected-to-russia-despite-their-claims/

After Wikileaks get busted by HER – LOUISE MENSCH GOT A TWEET FROM THE RUSSIAN EMBASSY – They try to discredit her – Is she coming to close? Daily Kos. 

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2017/3/13/1642879/-After-LOUISE-MENSCH-busted-Wikileaks-she-GOT-a-TWEET-f-RUSSIAN-EMBASSY-they-try-to-discredit-her

Richard V says:  Petr Chayanov’s LinkedIn shows his closest professional associates. It lists HostKey’s BizDev manager as Lev Chneider, of Chneider Ventures. On his Angel.co page, Chneider writes: “Last year I was able to secure $1 million worth of financing for a client, this was a tough challenge and took me close to 6 month to execute” He doesn’t list any of his clients though. He’s very secretive. However, public records show Lev Chneider’s investment company “Chneider Ventures, Ltd” (registered in UK) was dissolved on the SAME DATE that the DNC hack was announced.  That seems like quite a coincidence.”