President Trump, who repeatedly praised WikiLeaks for releasing damaging material on Hillary Clinton during the 2016 presidential race, on Thursday sought to disavow his past enthusiasm following the arrest of the organization’s founder, Julian Assange. “I know nothing about WikiLeaks,” Trump told reporters. It was WikiLeaks’ later publication of hacked emails damaging to Clinton, Trump’s 2016 Democratic opponent, that drew his repeated praise. NBC News tallied that Trump had cited WikiLeaks 141 times at 56 events in the last month of the campaign. South Korean President Moon Jae-in and President Trump meet at the White House in May 2018.

Source: Washington Post April 11, 2019 17:26 UTC