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Corsi said that, because he had no direct means of communicating with
WikiLeaks, he told members of the news site WNO-who were participating on a conference call
with him that day-to reach Assange immediately. 244 Corsi claimed that the pressure was enormous and recalled telling the conference call the Access Hollywood tape was coming. 245 Corsi
stated that he was convinced that his efforts had caused WikiLeaks to release the emails when they
did. 246 In a later November 2018 interview, Corsi stated that he thought that he had told people
on a WND conference call about the forthcoming tape and had sent out a tweet asking whether
anyone could contact Assange, but then said that maybe he had done nothing.247
Corsi twice admitted he had prior knowledge of the release of the Access Hollywood tape. I think it was the Washington Post that released it. Evidently, the Washington Post might be helpful in assessing Corsi's statements of prior knowledge. Maybe. If Corsi is the source of the tape, the Washington Post would not release that information.
Regardless, Corsi knew the Access Hollywood tape was being released and believed Assange released the emails because of the Access Hollywood tape. Evidently, Corsi was more interested in having the tape impact Trump's run for office and realized the emails would tamp down that possibility.
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Footnote 239 Candidate Trump can be heard off camera making graphic statements about women.
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that he believed Malloch was on the call but then focused on other individuals who were on the call-invitation, which Malloch was not. (Separate travel records show that at the time of the call, Malloch was aboard a transatlantic flight). Corsi at one point stated that after
WikiLeaks 's release of stolen emails on October 7, 2016, he concluded Malloch had gotten in contact with
Assange. Corsi 11/1/18 302, at 6.
Footnote 246_ Corsi 9/21/18 302, at 6-7.
Footnote 247 Corsi 11/1/18 302, at 6.
The Office (The Special Counsel Office) investigated Corsi's allegations about the events of October 7, 2016 but found little corroboration for his allegations about the day. 248 Harm of Ongoing Matter 249 Harm of Ongoing Matter 250 However, the phone records themselves do not indicate that the conversation was with any of the reporters who broke the Access Hollywood story, and the Office has not otherwise been able to identify the substance of the conversation. Harm of Ongoing Matter 251 However, the Office
has not identified any conference call participant, or anyone who spoke to Corsi that day, who says
that they received non-public information about the tape from Corsi or acknowledged having
contacted a member of WikiLeaks on October 7, 2016 after a conversation with Corsi.
Basically, while Corsi assumed the two events coincided, and he was on a conference call, he had no sincere proof that would be solid evidence. The Special Counsel could not find evidence of the coordinated events or release of nonpublic information. Wouldn't that indicate Russian agents were involved and using their own communication system? If Corsi is convinced he was on a conference call and all his assumptions were true, doesn't that indicate the Russian agents were involved in that activity and it is untraceable?
e. Donald Trump Jr. Interaction with WikiLeaks
Donald Trump Jr. had direct electronic communications with WikiLeaks during the
campaign period. On September 20, 2016, an individual named Jason Fishbein (click here) sent WikiLeaks
the password
To me that is a proven Russian practice. I believe it was the GRU that sent passwords to journalists so they could access information. Does Fishbein know who sent him the information and how did he know to send it to Wikileaks? And the website was unpublished. That has a Russian methodology spelled all over it.
for an unlaunched website focused on Trump's "unprecedented and dangerous" ties to Russia, PutinTrump.org.252 WikiLeaks publicly tweeted: '"Let's bomb Iraq' Progress for
America PAC to launch "PutinTrump.org' at 9:30am. Oops pw is 'putintrump' putintrump.org."
Several hours later, WikiLeaks sent a Twitter direct message to Donald Trump Jr., "A PAC run
anti-Trump site putintrump.org is about to launch. The PAC is a recycled pro-Iraq war PAC. We
have guessed the password. It is 'putintrump.' See 'About' for who is behind it. Any
comments ?"253
Several hours later, Trump Jr. emailed a variety of senior campaign staff:
Guys I got a weird Twitter DM from wikileaks. See below. I tried the password and it
works and the about section they reference contains the next pic (picture) in terms of who is behind
it. Not sure if this is anything but it seems like it's really wikileaks asking me as I follow
them and it is a DM. Do you know the people mentioned and what the conspiracy they are
looking for could be? These are just screen shots but it's a fully built out page claiming to
be a PAC let me know your thoughts and if we want to look into it.254
Trump Jr. attached a screenshot of the "About" page for the unlaunched site PutinTrump.org. The
next day (after the website had launched publicly), Trump Jr. sent a direct message to WikiLeaks:
"Off the record, l don't know who that is but I'll ask around. Thanks."255
On October 3, 2016, WikiLeaks sent another direct message to Trump Jr., asking "you
guys" to help disseminate a link alleging candidate Clinton had advocated using a drone to target
Julian Assange. Trump Jr. responded that he already "had done so," and asked, "what's behind
this Wednesday leak I keep reading about?"256 WikiLeaks did not respond.
On October 12, 2016, WikiLeaks wrote again that it was "great to see you and your dad
talking about our publications. Strongly suggest your dad tweets this link if he mentions us
wlsearch.tk."257 WikiLeaks wrote that the link would help Trump in "digging through" leaked
emails and stated, "we just released Podesta emails Part 4."258 Two days later, Trump Jr. publicly
tweeted the wlsearch.tk link.259
To begin with, the entire Assange drone sent by Clinton is more of the Assange paranoia noted before. For some reason Assange believes Hillary Clinton focuses on him and wants him dead. To me that is magical thinking. There is no real evidence that Hillary Clinton was obsessed with hating Assange.
This entire episode appears to be engineered by the GRU in my opinion. The unlaunched website appears to be scavenged by the GRU. They seem to want to find something an American had assembled to make it all believable. So, they found this old Iraq War PAC website and gave it a new life. What would they care if it was discovered by the original owner of the website that it had been tampered with? They wouldn't. The GRU would use it for one purpose and then forget about it.
So, in my opinion, the GRU found Fishbein, a political blog, provided a passcode to an old repurposed Iraq War website, where photos were planted to bring speculation to Hillary Clinton by Donald Trump, Jr. who would then provide the information to his father. The Trump Campaign, Junior in particular, was then an unwitting volunteer to Russian propaganda while believing it was all the doing of an old Iraq War PAC with real information. Fishbein is basically no one. It all sounds like a GRU exercise in providing inflaming information about Clinton.
BUT, Junior had direct communication with Wikileaks. They were more than symbiotic in that relationship and Jr. knew the FBI had investigated the hacks into the DNC, DCCC and the Clinton Campaign and knew Russia was involved.
The information about the Russian hacking was public knowledge. The FBI had investigated and found Russian had committed the crime. So, the Trump Campaign knew along with the public the information appearing on Wikileaks was from a Russian action.
What bothers me is that all this hacking was unilateral. No one could doubt the Wikileaks release was the Russian hacking, yet the Trump Campaign never batted an eye. They never once stated this was a crime and it was unfortunate the Clinton Campaign was targeted. The Trump Campaign continued to converse with Wikileaks and continued to pass around information secretly. The Trump Campaign considered the crime by Russians important and Trump himself employed their talents to find 30,000 emails that were once erased from the Clinton server.
The Russians had their hooks into Trump and his campaign and they didn't care. They thought it was great. Putin, at that time, denied all of it. The FBI had the proof.
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Footnote 252 9/20/16 Twitter DM@Fishbein to @WikiLeaks; see JF00587 (9/21/16 Messages, PP @jabber.cryptoparty.is and Personal Privacy @jabber.cryptoparty.is); Fishbein 9/5/18 302, at 4. When
interviewed by our Office, Fishbein produced what he claimed to be logs from a chatroom in which the
participants discussed U.S. politics; one of the other participants had posted the website and password that
Fishbein sent to WikiLeaks.
Footnote 253 9/20/16 Twitter DM, @WikiLeaks to @DonaldJTrumpJr.
Footnote 254 TRUMPORG _ 28 _ 000629-33 (9/21/16 Email, Trump Jr. to Conway et al. (subject
"Wikileaks"))
Footnote 255 9/21/16 Twitter DM, @DonaldJTrumpJr to @WikiLeaks.
Footnote 256 10/3/16 Twitter DMs, @DonaldJTrumpJr & @WikiLeaks.
Footnote 257 At the time, the link took users to a WikiLeaks archive of stolen Clinton Campaign documents.
Footnote 258 10/12/16 Twitter DM, @WikiLeaks to @DonaldJTrumpJr.
Footnote 259 @DonaldJTrumpJr 10/14/16 (6:34 a.m.) Tweet.
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