Trump: Knows 'nothing about WikiLeaks'

(11 Apr 2019) U.S. President Donald Trump is claiming to "know nothing about WikiLeaks" despite past praise for the anti-secrecy organization.
Trump was asked in the Oval Office on Thursday about the arrest of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange in London.
The president, who was sitting next to South Korean President Moon Jae-in, said "It's not my thing" and didn't elaborate.
Trump praised WikiLeaks more than 100 times during the stretch run of the 2016 presidential campaign.
That fall, WikiLeaks released stolen embarrassing emails from the campaign of Trump's opponent, Hillary Clinton.
Trump also says he believes Attorney General William Barr was correct in saying that spying did occur on Trump's 2106 presidential campaign.
Trump says what Barr claimed "was absolutely true."
Trump says he would go a step further and call it "illegal spying," adding "there was spying in my campaign and his answer was a very accurate one."
Barr suggested to Congress the origins of the Russia investigation may have been mishandled, but later said he wasn't sure there had been improper surveillance.
Still, his remarks have given Trump a new avenue to make the assertion that his 2016 campaign was unfairly targeted by the FBI.

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