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General News 4/13/2019 at 12:43 AM EDT

Why is Trump Suddenly Playing Dumb about Wikileaks?

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How Donald Trump spoke about WikiLeaks during 2016 presidential campaign After WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange was arrested at the Ecuadorian embassy in London on Thursday, Donald Trump claimed not to know anything about ...
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Trump’s dramatic reversal is not surprising. As was made clear throughout the course of the Mueller investigation (which resulted in over 30 indictments of individuals and organizations, many of which were intimately enmeshed in Trump’s campaign), the president is quick to distance himself from anyone who finds themselves in legal trouble. After Paul Manafort, who served as Trump’s campaign chairman for three months, was found guilty of several federal crimes last August, Trump claimed he barely knew him. “I didn’t know Manafort well,” Trump told Fox News. “He wasn’t with the campaign very long.”

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