Article snippet: President Trump’s eldest son occasionally exchanged private messages with WikiLeaks on Twitter before the 2016 election, MORE Jr. confirmed on Monday. The WikiLeaks Twitter account sent a direct message to Trump Jr. in late September 2016 alerting him that an anti-Trump site run by a political action committee (PAC) was “about to launch.” The message offered the password to the site. "The PAC is a recycled pro-Iraq war PAC. We have guessed the password. It is ‘putintrump.’ See ‘About’ for who is behind it. Any comments?" WikiLeaks wrote, as first reported by The Atlantic. “Off the record I don’t know who that is, but I’ll ask around,” Trump Jr. responded to the account the following day. It is unclear if he followed through with the offer. Trump Jr. later confirmed the interactions on Twitter: The correspondence has reportedly been given to lawmakers investigating Russian interference in the 2016 election. WikiLeaks published troves of stolen emails from the Democratic National Committee and Clinton campaign chairman John Podesta ahead of the election. The U.S. intelligence community has linked the releases to a multi-pronged effort by the Russian government to interfere in the election. WikiLeaks has denied any connections to the Kremlin. A representative for WikiLeaks did not immediately return a request for comment. The correspondence continued until July 2017 and largely consisted of WikiLeaks sending messages to Trump Jr. that went unreturned. The org... Link to the full article to read more