CONSPIRACY: Trump’s digital guru sought Assange’s help in getting 33,000 stolen Hillary e-mails
Is that the sound of subpoenas being prepared coming from Mueller’s office?
Alexander Nix, who heads a controversial data-analytics firm that worked for President Donald Trump’s campaign, wrote in an email last year that he reached out to WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange about Hillary Clinton’s missing 33,000 emails.
Nix, who heads Cambridge Analytica, told a third party that he reached out to Assange about his firm somehow helping the WikiLeaks editor release Clinton’s missing emails, according to two sources familiar with a congressional investigation into interactions between Trump associates and the Kremlin. Those sources also relayed that, according to Nix’s email, Assange told the Cambridge Analytica CEO that he didn’t want his help, and preferred to do the work on his own.
If the claims Nix made in that email are true, this would be the closest known connection between Trump’s campaign and Assange.
And the first thoughts to cross the mind of anyone who has been paying attention to Russiagate are “Don’t believe denials” and “Silence suggests culpability.”
Cambridge Analytica did not provide comment for this story by press time.
After publication, Assange provided this statement to The Daily Beast: ”We can confirm an approach by Cambridge Analytica and can confirm that it was rejected by WikiLeaks.”
Soliciting stolen e-mails sure sounds like a crime to me. Just sayin’…
