Trump in 2016: “WikiLeaks, I love WikiLeaks” Trump in 2019: “I know nothing about WikiLeaks”
President Donald Trump, when asked if he still"loves" WikiLeaks as he said in 2016, told reporters in the Oval Office that he knows"nothing about WikiLeaks."
"I know nothing about WikiLeaks. It's not my thing and I know there is something having to do with Julian Assange. I've been seeing what's happened with Assange," Trump told reporters while meeting with South Korean President Moon Jae-in, referring to the arrest of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange. Assange was arrested Thursday morning in London after Ecuador revoked his diplomatic asylum claim.
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