Indiana Gov. Mike Pence said on Friday that despite rumors and suggestions to the contrary, the Republican presidential ticket has absolutely nothing to do with the avalanche of Hillary Clinton campaign emails released in recent days by WikiLeaks.
“Nothing could be further from the truth,” Pence said when asked by Fox News anchor Steve Doocy if Donald Trump’s campaign is “in cahoots” with the website releasing the emails. “I think all of us have, you know, have had concerns about WikiLeaks over the years and it's just a reality of American life today, and of life in the wider world.”
Clinton campaign chairman John Podesta, whose allegedly hacked emails have been released in batches this week by WikiLeaks, said earlier this week that it would be a “reasonable conclusion” that Roger Stone, an ally of Trump’s campaign had “advance warning” of the email releases. That the email hackers have largely targeted Clinton’s campaign and not Trump’s, along with the U.S. government’s assertion the Russian government is behind at least some of the hacking, has stoked rumors that such attacks are politically motivated to aid the Manhattan billionaire.
Stone has denied any connection to WikiLeaks, and neither Podesta nor anyone else from Clinton’s campaign has confirmed the authenticity of the released emails.
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