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Trump ‘data guru’ emailed Assange; so what?
The head of a data analytics firm working for Donald Trump’s presidential campaign reached out to WikiLeaks editor Julian Assange about Hillary Clinton’s missing emails, reportedly offering aid in getting them published. WikiLeaks declined the offer.
The UK-based Cambridge Analytica is a data analysis firm that worked for the Trump campaign in 2016, helping the Republican candidate collect information on potential voters and target advertising. Its CEO Alexander Nix reached out to Assange last year about some 33,000 emails that Hillary Clinton had deleted from her private server, according to the Daily Beast.
Nix “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,” the Beast reported on Wednesday, under the headline: “Trump Data Guru: I Tried to Team Up With Julian Assange.”
Assange quickly confirmed that Nix had reached out to him last year. He also said that WikiLeaks rejected the overture, deliberately not revealing what the subject of it was.
I can confirm an approach by Cambridge Analytica [prior to November last year] and can confirm that it was rejected by WikiLeaks.
— Julian Assange
