Former Trump campaign adviser Roger Stone tried to obtain information from WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange in 2016 in hopes of garnering harmful information on Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton, according to a report Thursday.

In September, Stone testified to the House Intelligence Committee that he “merely wanted confirmation” from someone that Assange had damaging info on Clinton, the Wall Street Journal reports. The new emails call those claims into question.

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