Trump Donor Wanted Data Firm to Organize Hacked Emails
Alexander Nix
According to the Journal  Trump donor Rebekah Mercer on Aug. 26  2016  passed along to the chief executive of Cambridge Analytica   Alexander Nix   an email she'd gotten from someone she met at a campaign event for then-GOP presidential primary contender Sen. Ted Cruz  R-Texas.
 Nix  replied that  he 'd already reached out to WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange in June 2016 to ask  him  to share Clinton-related emails so the company could aid in disseminating them â and Assange turned  him  down  the Journal reported.
In an email that copied Peter Schweizer  who co-founded the Government Accountability Institute with Trump adviser Steve Bannon in 2012   Nix  added that  he  believed Schweizer was working on creating an index of the Clinton-related emails  the Journal reported.  Nix  said  he  would order a team to "assess the feasibility of expanding this work."
 Nix 's outreach to Assange came about a month before WikiLeaks began releasing its trove of emails in July 2016  which included messages stolen from the account of Clinton's campaign chairman  John Podesta  and from the Democratic National Committee. Intelligence agencies later determined the Clinton-related emails had been stolen by Russian intelligence and given to WikiLeaks  which WikiLeaks has denied.
According to the Journal  Trump donor Rebekah Mercer on Aug. 26  2016  passed along to the chief executive of  [TGT] an email she'd gotten from someone she met at a campaign event for then-GOP presidential primary contender Sen. Ted Cruz  R-Texas.
  [TGT] replied that   [TGT]  'd already reached out to WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange in June 2016 to ask   [TGT]   to share Clinton-related emails so the company could aid in disseminating them â and Assange turned   [TGT] down  the Journal reported.
In an email that copied Peter Schweizer  who co-founded the Government Accountability Institute with Trump adviser Steve Bannon in 2012    [TGT] added that  he  believed Schweizer was working on creating an index of the Clinton-related emails  the Journal reported.   [TGT] said   [TGT]   would order a team to "assess the feasibility of expanding this work."
 Nix 's outreach to Assange came about a month before WikiLeaks began releasing its trove of emails in July 2016  which included messages stolen from the account of Clinton's campaign chairman  John Podesta  and from the Democratic National Committee. Intelligence agencies later determined the Clinton-related emails had been stolen by Russian intelligence and given to WikiLeaks  which WikiLeaks has denied.