Was Russia Behind The Latest Wikileaks?

Wikileaks helped Donald J. Trump become President. Now the website is publishing secrets which hurt American interests. Does President Trump still love Wikileaks?

In August 2013, the Editor-in-Chief of Russia Today, the Kremlin-operated English news channel paid an unusual visit to the Ecuadorian embassy in London. The special trip had little, if anything, to do with the affairs of the South American country. Instead, the TV executive was courting a partnership with a man who’d become a permanent resident of the embassy. The deal they struck that day would shake the foundations of US democracy in the years to come and set the stage for new Cold War.

The person the RT executive was meeting was Julian Assange, the 43-year-old Australian founder of Wikileaks, the website responsible for the publication of thousands of the world’s most sensitive classified documents. Assange has been holed up in the Ecuadorian Embassy in London since 2012, trapped there by a global diplomatic tug-of-war ove…