How that transfer was made isn’t clear, meaning that the relationship between WikiLeaks and Russian agents isn’t clear, either. When we learned last year that Donald Trump Jr. had communicated with WikiLeaks over Twitter, that was still one step removed from Trump Jr. communicating directly with Russia, even if the subject of conversation was Russia’s work product. On Thursday, we learned of another indirect communication between WikiLeaks and the Trump campaign. The timing isn’t entirely clear, but this could have been before Cambridge Analytica was hired by Trump’s campaign, eventually contributing to its digital outreach efforts. The nature of the relationship between Russia and the Trump campaign has, even when posited at its most nefarious, been piecemeal.
