Froma Harrop: Go Ahead, Republicans. Investigate Hillary. Again. – Sat, 18 Nov 2017 PST

Whenever the legal walls start closing in on Donald Trump, the president releases a bad rabbit on the political field, a creature invisible to all but the haters of Hillary Clinton. The most recent example is his attorney general's call to "evaluate certain issues" regarding the sale of a majority stake in Uranium One and the Clinton Foundation.

Trump Jr.’s WikiLeaks exchange adds intrigue to Russia probe

President Donald Trump's oldest son released a series of private Twitter exchanges between himself and WikiLeaks during and after the 2016 election, including pleas from the website to publicize its leaks. Donald Trump Jr.'s release of the messages on Twitter came hours after The Atlantic first reported them Monday.

WikiLeaks urged the Trump campaign to challenge the results of…

WikiLeaks encouraged Donald Trump's campaign to contest the results of the 2016 election if he lost to Hillary Clinton, according to private messages sent to the then-candidate's eldest son, Donald Trump, Jr. Despite his surprise election victory, Trump still cast doubt on the legitmacy of the election, hinting at possible voter fraud without providing any evidence back it up. The self-described radical transparency organization WikiLeaks told Donald Trump Jr. on Election Day that it would be "much more interesting" if his father challenged the election results if he lost to Hillary Clinton, instead of conceding victory, The Atlantic reported on Monday.

Trump Jr. messaged with WikiLeaks during 2016 campaign

This image of Donald Trump Jr.'s Twitter account shows a series of direct messages he received from the Twitter account behind the WikiLeaks website, including his responses to the communications, which he posted on Monday, Nov. 13, 2017. The direct messages had been turned over to congressional committees investigating Russian intervention in the 2016 election and if there were any links to Donald Trump's campaign.

Cambridge Analytica, Trump data firm linked to Julian Assange

The head of a data analytics firm that worked for President Trump's 2016 campaign wanted WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange to help locate Hillary Clinton's missing emails, according to a report Wednesday. Cambridge Analytica CEO Alexander Nix reached out to Mr. Assange in an attempt to recover and release about 33,000 emails that were erased from Mrs. Clinton's private email server from when she was secretary of state, the Daily Beast reported.

Report: Kelly Not Letting Senate Russia Advocate Near Trump

U.S. Rep. Dana Rohrabacher says White House Chief of Staff John Kelly is preventing him from getting information to President Donald Trump. The California Republican told Business Insider that Kelly and "a coalition of people in the White House" are keeping him from talking to the president about information that could clear WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange and the Russian government in meddling in the U.S. presidential election.

Lawmaker tried negotiating deal with Trump to help WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange

Rep. Dana Rohrabacher of California called White House Chief of Staff John Kelly this week to negotiate a deal to help WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, The Wall Street Journal reported Friday. The report claims that Rohrabacher, who chairs the House Foreign Affairs Subcommittee on Europe, Eurasia, and Emerging Threats, would have submitted evidence that Russia was not the source of the thousands of hacked emails published by WikiLeaks during the contentious 2016 US presidential election.

Critics fear Dana Rohrabacher creatingWikiLeaks back channel to Trump

Rep. Dana Rohrabacher of California has returned from Europe with a plan to brief President Trump on a meeting with WikiLeaks publisher Julian Assange that he says touched on information disproving RussiaA s role hacking Democratic emails. The Orange County Republican visited Assange inside EcuadorA s London embassy last week and told the Washington Examiner on Thursday, shortly after his return, that "I would not talk on the telephone" with the president about the three-hour conversation.

California congressmen meets Wikileaks founder, who denies Russia was source of DNC leaks

Wikileaks founder Julian Assange told Costa Mesa congressman Dana Rohrabacher on Wednesday that Russia was not involved with leaking controversial emails from the Democratic National Committee during last year's presidential campaign. “He reaffirmed his aggressive denial that the Russians had anything to do with the hacking of the DNC during the election,” Rohrabacher said by phone from London.

Donald Trump won the election, and we don’t know whether he…

Donald Trump won the election, and we don't know whether he colluded - but he's not a legitimate president We know for sure Trump wants to shut down the Russia investigation, and that's more than enough to disgrace him Here's the biggest problem in discussing President Donald Trump's ongoing Russia scandal: Everyone has a bias, and there's no such thing as a neutral party. For many Democrats, there is the bias of wanting to retroactively vindicate Hillary Clinton's 2016 presidential campaign, despite her shocking loss in the November election.

Julian Assange: Democrats ‘Doomed’ Over Russia Issue

WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange said Saturday that "'we didn't lose, Russia won' narrative" has "doomed" the Democrats and called on core supporters to "start a new party since the party elite shows no signs that they will give up power." "Without the 'we didn't lose, Russia won' narrative, the party's elite and those who exist under its patronage would be purged for being electorally incompetent and ideologically passe," Assange said in a statement released via his Twitter account.

WikiLeaks Offers $100,000 Reward For Trump-Comey ‘Tapes’

WikiLeaks announced on Friday that its organization is prepared to pay $100,000 to anyone who sends them the alleged taped conversations between President Donald Trump and former FBI Director James Comey, according to Newsweek. James Comey was the face of the FBI during its investigation into Russia's interference in the 2016 presidential election and alleged coordination with President Trump's campaign.

CIA director Mike Pompeo repeatedly cited WikiLeaks to attack Clinton during campaign

US officials told CNN last week that the Justice Department has prepared charges to seek the arrest of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange. Attorney General Jeff Sessions said at a news conference on Thursday that Assange's arrest is a "priority" of the administration.

Wikileaks trolls Trump with video of him saying he…

Following an announcement from President Donald Trump's Justice Department that there are plans to arrest Wikileaks founder Julian Assange, the information dissemination group trolled the president by posting a video reminding him that he used to be one of their biggest fans. During the campaign, Trump boldly stated he "loved" Wikileaks at a time when the group was publishing emails from Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton's campaign.