Following Assange Bust, Trump Claims ‘I Know Nothing About Wikileaks”

File this one on the list of Trump’s biggest, most absurd lies.

“I know nothing about WikiLeaks. It’s not my thing,” Trump said Thursday after the group’s founder, Julian Assange, was arrested in London. “I know there is something having to do with Julian Assange.”

However, during the 2016 campaign, Trump praised WikiLeaks more than 140 times in the final month of the campaign alone, after the group published emails that were stolen from top aides working on Hillary Clinton’s campaign.

View the complete April 11 article by Emily Singer with The American Independent on the National Memo website here.