Trump adviser sought WikiLeaks emails via Farage ally, Mueller document alleges
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/nov/28/ted-malloch-wikileaks-information-trump-campaign-mueller-investigation
Ted Malloch was allegedly passed request to get advanced copies of emails stolen from Trumps opponents by Russian hackers
An ally of Nigel Farage was asked to obtain secret information from WikiLeaks for Donald Trumps team during the 2016 election campaign, according to US investigators.
Ted Malloch, a London-based academic close to Farage, was allegedly passed a request from a longtime Trump adviser to get advance copies of emails stolen from Trumps opponents by Russian hackers and later published by WikiLeaks.
The allegation emerged in a draft legal document drawn up by Robert Mueller, the special prosecutor investigating Russias interference in the 2016 election and any collusion with Trumps campaign team.
In response to a series of questions from the Guardian, including whether he had acted on the request to make contact with WikiLeaks, Malloch said in an email: No and no comment.
The latest revelations come as the role of the former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort has come under greater scrutiny amid reports in the US that Mueller is looking into his meeting with the Ecuadorian president in 2017. On Tuesday sources also told the Guardian that Manafort met with Assange in the Ecuadorian embassy in London, a claim denied by both men.
Malloch, 66, has been under scrutiny by Mueller for months, amid suggestions that he may have served as an important nexus in 2016 between Trumps White House bid and the campaign to secure Britains exit from the EU.
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Malloch, who is American, told the BBC soon after Trumps election win in November 2016: Ive had a lot of contact. Ive been involved with the campaign for over a year and a half. He was in Washington for Trumps inauguration.
He was at the same time close to Farage and other influential Brexit campaigners. Farage wrote the afterword for a book by Malloch subtitled An Insiders Look at the Trump Victory. Elsewhere in the book, Malloch said of Farage: The government should use him as a back channel to Trump.