{"id":33,"date":"2018-12-01T22:19:01","date_gmt":"2018-12-01T22:19:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/polfact.com\/articles\/?p=33"},"modified":"2018-12-01T22:19:01","modified_gmt":"2018-12-01T22:19:01","slug":"anonymous-sources-say-paul-manafort-met-with-julian-assange-before-emails-were-leaked","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/polfact.com\/articles\/2018\/12\/01\/anonymous-sources-say-paul-manafort-met-with-julian-assange-before-emails-were-leaked\/","title":{"rendered":"Anonymous sources say Paul Manafort met with Julian Assange before emails were leaked"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>Anonymous sources told <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2018\/nov\/27\/manafort-held-secret-talks-with-assange-in-ecuadorian-embassy\">The Guardian<\/a> that Paul Manafort met with Julian Assange in 2013, 2015 and in spring 2016 before the DNC emails were leaked.<\/li>\n<li>Manafort and Wikileaks strongly deny that any meetings between Manafort and Assange ever took place.<\/li>\n<li>If the allegations are true, they may have an impact with Manafort&#8217;s plea deal with Robert Mueller, special prosecutor who is investigating Russia&#8217;s interference in the 2016 presidential campaign.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h4>Read More:<\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2018\/nov\/27\/manafort-held-secret-talks-with-assange-in-ecuadorian-embassy\">Manafort held secret talks with Assange in Ecuadorian embassy, sources say<\/a> <span class=\"badge badge-primary\">Left-Center<\/span><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bostonherald.com\/news\/national\/2018\/11\/manafort_allegations_throw_new_uncertainty_into_russia_probe\">Manafort allegations throw new uncertainty into Russia probe<\/a> <span class=\"badge badge-danger\">Right-Center<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Anonymous sources told The Guardian that Paul Manafort met with Julian Assange in 2013, 2015 and in spring 2016 before the DNC emails were leaked. Manafort and Wikileaks strongly deny that any meetings between Manafort and Assange ever took place. If the allegations are true, they may have an impact with Manafort&#8217;s plea deal with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/polfact.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/polfact.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/polfact.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/polfact.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/polfact.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/polfact.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35,"href":"https:\/\/polfact.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33\/revisions\/35"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/polfact.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/polfact.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/polfact.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}