Donald Trump's enthusiastic reactions during the presidential election campaign to WikiLeaks' information about Hillary Clinton are not a sign of the US president's support for that organization, US Vice President Mike Pence said today.
Yesterday, when asked about the arrest of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange in London, Trump said that he knew nothing about WikiLeaks and that it was none of his business.
As a presidential candidate in 2016, Trump had a more specific stance on WikiLeaks when the organization leaked emails from his opponent Hillary Clinton's campaign manager.
"Wikileaks, I love Wikileaks," Trump said at the time.
Pence told the US media today that the president does not support WikiLeaks in any way.
London police arrested Assange yesterday on a US extradition warrant and for breaching bail conditions in the UK. Ecuador previously revoked Assange's asylum status, citing his "violations of international conventions and daily protocols" as the reason.
In 2012, Assange took refuge in the Ecuadorian embassy in London to avoid extradition to Sweden on sexual assault charges, which have since been dropped. He remained in the embassy, fearing he could be extradited to the US, which is seeking him for publishing tens of thousands of secret government documents through WikiLeaks.
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