WikiLeaks founder: 'Working on' hacking into Trump's taxes

[mystery-ak]

August 06, 2016, 10:08 am
WikiLeaks founder: 'Working on' hacking into Trump's taxes

By Rebecca Savransky

WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange says he is looking into hacking Donald Trump's tax returns.

“Well, we’re working on it," Assange said Friday night when "Real Time" host Bill Maher asked whether WikiLeaks was looking to target Trump and his tax returns.

The GOP presidential nominee has declined to release his tax returns, pushing back on calls in recent months from Democrats and some Republicans. Some have suggested his tax returns show a connection between Trump and Russia.

Trump's campaign chief Paul Manafort said last month the GOP nominee has "said that his taxes are under audit and he will not be releasing them."

"It has nothing to do with Russia, it has nothing to do with any country other than the United States and his normal tax auditing process," Manafort said.

Assange didn't give further information about the progress of the hack into Trump's tax returns.

Last month, nearly 20,000 emails from officials at the Democratic National Committee (DNC) were released by WikiLeaks the day before the Democratic National Convention began.

Some of the emails shows DNC officials plotting to undermine the presidential campaign of Bernie Sanders. They resulted in top officials with the organization stepping down, including chairwoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz.

http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/290620-wikileaks-founder-working-on-hacking-into-trumps-taxes

[bolobaby]

If they get them, it will be a social hack - which is really just stealing a copy.

[Oceander]

If they get them, it will be a social hack - which is really just stealing a copy.

Not really.  Find his accountants' computers, hack them, and you have not only the returns, but also the workpapers that were used to prepare those returns, and possibly copies of the legal advice that was used to support the positions taken on the returns.

[Crazieman]

Pretty strange.  Despite the political leanings of Assange, he's pretty fair on open information and has done a service to the country.