Opinion: Democrats need to say why Trump’s WikiLeaks praise matters
By Jennifer Rubin Jennifer Rubin Opinion writer covering politics and policy, foreign and domestic Email Bio Follow Opinion writer April 12 at 12:15 PM By now you’ve probably seen a montage of clips showing then-presidential candidate Donald Trump praising WikiLeaks and its distribution of hacked Democratic emails. It is of course telling that Trump now says he knows nothing about WikiLeaks , but it is far from the most important aspect of this.
When we see more of Robert S. Mueller III’s report, we will see how the special counsel characterizes this behavior. Was there insufficient evidence of conspiracy/coordination, or rather, was there parallelism in which Russia’s campaign for Trump and Trump’s campaign for Trump proceeded along similar lines?
On the moral front, Trump’s cheerleading for WikiLeaks, a conduit for Russian hackers, was a celebration of a crime, the hacking of the Democratic National Committee’s and the Clinton campaign emails. The candidate running to be chief executive found nothing wrong with this crime — in fact, he celebrated it. Beyond that, he betrayed his country and our democracy, which posits that the American people choose our leaders in free and fair elections.
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