Donald Trump Jr, the eldest son of the US president, was in direct communication with WikiLeaks in the crucial final stages of the 2016 presidential election, a new leak of private correspondence from inside the Trump circle reveals. Julia Ioffe, author of the Atlantic article, writes that Trump Jr did not reply to the WikiLeaks message. In it the open information website informed Trump Jr that a new political action committee called “putintrump” was about to launch. I have a work face, and then there’s my private life,” – Trump Jr to New York magazine, 2004. This is not the first controversy involving Trump Jr and links to Russia.

Source: The Guardian November 13, 2017 23:40 UTC