WikiLeaks: We are ‘immune to new DNC lawsuit’

On Friday, the Democratic National Committee sued WikiLeaks, along with the Trump campaign and Russia, alleging they conspired to tip the scales of the 2016 election against Democrat Hillary Clinton.

“Why @wikileaks is immune to new DNC lawsuit? Same reason as its last suit, which it has essentially refiled this week ahead of the mid terms. A useful summary of the legal protections for the accurate publishers of newsworthy information in this article,” WikiLeaks tweeted in response.

In the article referenced, the Gateway Pundit claims WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has “never been credibly accused of publishing information that was not truthful.”

In a statement from DNC Chairman Tom Perez, he said the president colluded with a “hostile foreign power” to up his chances of winning the election.

“During the 2016 presidential campaign, Russia launched an all-out assault on our democracy, and it found a willing and active partner in Donald Trump’s campaign,” Perez said in a statement, according to the Washington Post.

The complaint, filed in district court in Manhattan, asserts that Russia’s sovereign immunity should be revoked in this case because “the DNC claims arise out of Russia’s trespass on to the DNC’s private servers … in order to steal trade secrets and commit economic espionage.”

WikiLeaks also spat back at the DNC deputy chair, Rep. Keith Ellison, D-Minn., on Twitter after he touted the lawsuit and called it Americans’ “duty to respond” when Democracy is attacked.

“Keith, do you think ‘we have a right to lie without being exposed by WikiLeakes is really a vote winner?'” WikiLeaks said.

Editor’s note: This story has been corrected to say the Trump campaign, not administration, is being sued by the DNC.