Trump’s team planned media campaign ahead of WikiLeaks email dump

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President Trump’s team strategized about how to take advantage of a WikiLeaks operation against rival Hillary Clinton in the summer of 2016, a campaign adviser told special counsel Robert Mueller.

“[B]y the late summer of 2016, the Trump campaign was planning a press strategy, a communications campaign, and messaging based on the possible release of Clinton emails by WikiLeaks,” Mueller’s report states.

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