Our site was soon hit with a surge of traffic and spam while it was still password-protected and meant to be out of public view-and that was just the beginning. "Let's bomb Iraq" Progress For America PAC to launch ' ' at 9.30am. “‘Let’s bomb Iraq’ Progress For America PAC to launch ‘ ‘ at 9.30am,” WikiLeaks tweeted. (The password did not allow anyone access to the back end of the site it was intended simply to let the press preview the site as it would look the following day, when it went live.) soon emailed top officials in the Trump campaign about the exchange, according to The Atlantic, including Steve Bannon, Kellyanne Conway, digital director Brad Parscale, and Trump’s son-in-law, Jared Kushner Kushner forwarded the email to campaign communications staffer Hope Hicks.Īlmost immediately after WikiLeaks messaged Trump Jr., though, it made another move: It tweeted out the password. “There were messages threatening our families.” “Thanks.” “It was the scariest times in our lives,” recalls one of the people targeted. “Off the record I don’t know who that is, but I’ll ask around,” Trump Jr. It is ‘putintrump.’ See ‘About’ for who is behind it. On the evening of September 20, 2016, WikiLeaks sent a direct message on Twitter to Trump Jr.: “A PAC run anti-Trump site is about to launch. Within just minutes of reaching out to Trump Jr., WikiLeaks also publicized the password, setting off a wave of online harassment, email bombs, and personal threats against people behind the site. But there was more to the story of WikiLeaks’ apparent effort to conspire with the Trump campaign against -and I had a front-row seat to it, as editorial director of the site. the password to a forthcoming site documenting his father’s ties to Russia. On Monday, The Atlantic published private messages from September 2016 in which WikiLeaks gave Donald Trump Jr. Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.Īdditional reporting for this story was contributed by Denise Clifton and AJ Vicens.
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