Former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort reportedly met with WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange in secret just months before WikiLeaks published a trove of emails that Russia stole from the Democratic National Committee.
A Tuesday report from The Guardian cites a "well-placed source" who says Manafort met with Assange at the Ecuadorian embassy in London sometime around March 2016, the month he joined President Trump's campaign team. The two reportedly also met in 2013 and 2015. The Guardian reports that a document written by Ecuador's Senain intelligence agency lists Paul Manafort as a well-known guest at the embassy, where Assange resides, although his name is spelled incorrectly as "Paul Manaford." Manafort said any suggestion he was involved in the DNC hack is "100 percent false."
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