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Two days in July: As Republicans convened in Cleveland, did Trump receive a heads-up about WikiLeak

Donald Trump arrives by helicopter in Cleveland on July 20, 2016, for the Republican National Convention. Credit: Jeff J Mitchell, Getty Images

At 1:25 p.m. on July 17, 2016, an Alitalia jet carrying Donald Trump’s longtime fixer and attorney Michael Cohen landed in New York, bringing him home after eight days celebrating his 50th birthday in Capri and Rome.

About 2 p.m. on July 20, a helicopter carrying Trump thumped down in a field in downtown Cleveland, delivering the presidential candidate in dramatic style to the Republican National Convention, already underway.

Between those two days — while Trump was in New York and the political world’s attention was trained on Cleveland — Cohen alleges that Trump received an important phone call from his decades-long confidant Roger Stone, alerting him that WikiLeaks was planning within days to release a cache of emails that would damage Hillary Clinton.

View the complete March 1 article by Rosalind S. Helderman and Manuel Roig-Franzia on The Washington Post website here.

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