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Article snippet: The revelation this week that MORE Jr. corresponded with WikiLeaks during the presidential campaign has added a new wrinkle to the competing probes into Russian interference. Legal experts say the development is likely to intensify scrutiny of Trump’s eldest son, who is already under the microscope for a controversial June 2016 meeting at Trump Tower with a Russian lawyer. Separately, a pair of senators revealed Thursday that Trump’s senior adviser and son-in-law, Jared Kushner, had received correspondence about WikiLeaks prior to the election. They said Kushner has not yet turned over those documents to congressional investigators. Here are five things you need to know about Russia, WikiLeaks and the Trump campaign. WikiLeaks was implicated in U.S. intelligence community assessment An unclassified assessment released by the U.S. intelligence community in January explicitly implicated WikiLeaks in Russia’s efforts to influence the 2016 election. Specifically, intelligence officials concluded “with high confidence” that Russia gave hacked emails from the Democratic National Committee (DNC) and Clinton campaign chairman John Podesta to WikiLeaks. “Moscow most likely chose WikiLeaks because of its self-proclaimed reputation for authenticity. Disclosures through WikiLeaks did not contain any evident forgeries,” the report stated. WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has repeatedly denied that Russia was the source of the hacked emails the organization released prior... Link to the full article to read more