The Daily Beast is reporting that Alexander Nix, the CEO of the Trump campaign's data firm, emailed Wikileaks' Julian Assange last year about "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 founder 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.
While there is no evidence anyone hacked Clinton's server or has any of her deleted emails, that has not stopped Republicans from trying to find them. On July 27, 2016, Trump himself said, “Russia, if you’re listening, I hope you’ll be able to find the 30,000 emails that are missing."
The Daily Beast notes:
If the claims Nix made in that email are true, this would be the closest known connection between Trump’s campaign and Assange.
Assange via statement to The Daily Beast:
”We can confirm an approach by Cambridge Analytica and can confirm that it was rejected by WikiLeaks.”
Trump's own CIA Director Mike Pompeo said the following about Wikileaks in April:
“WikiLeaks walks like a hostile intelligence service and talks like a hostile intelligence service,” he told the crowd at a Washington, D.C. think tank in his first public remarks as head of the intelligence agency Thursday. He accused WikiLeaks of endangering lives and acting as a veritable arm of Russian intelligence.
Read the full story: Trump Data Guru: I Tried to Team Up With Julian Assange (Daily Beast)