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Richard Blumenthal: “It was reaching out to WikiLeaks. In fact, reaching down into the gutter because remember, WikiLeaks' business model is…”

On the recordOctober 25, 2017
It was reaching out to WikiLeaks. In fact, reaching down into the gutter because remember, WikiLeaks' business model is to take information, stolen often by foreign governments like the Russians, and then publicly size it without any regard to the harm done to men and women in uniform or others who are cooperating with us abroad.
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Richard Blumenthal
Democratic · Connecticut

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Senator Blumenthal condemns the Trump campaign's connection to WikiLeaks through Cambridge Analytica.

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