Pence Denies Knowledge Of Donald Trump Jr. Contacts With Wikileaks [View all]
Source: Talking Points Memo
By NICOLE LAFOND Published NOVEMBER 14, 2017 9:48 AM
Monday’s news that Donald Trump Jr. had traded private messages with Wikileaks over Twitter during the campaign prompted Vice President Mike Pence to backpedal slightly on his past claims about Wikileaks’ contacts with the Trump campaign.
On Monday evening, the vice president’s office said it wasn’t “aware” of any communication at the time.
“The vice president was never aware of anyone associated with the campaign being in contact with Wikileaks,” Pence’s press secretary Alyssa Farah said Monday evening in a statement obtained by TPM. “He first learned of this news from a published report earlier tonight.”
However, in October 2016, Pence flatly denied that the Trump campaign had any connection to Wikileaks after it released emails and documents containing damaging information about then-candidate Hillary Clinton.
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