Thread by @JuddLegum

It's pretty much a standard GOP talking point that Russian hacking had no impact on the outcome of the election

You know who thought it would have an impact?

Donald Trump

He mentioned Wikileaks 163 times in the final month of the campaign

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"Wikileaks is amazing. The stuff that’s coming out, it shows she’s a real liar." -- Donald Trump, 10/11/16

"Wikileaks, some new stuff, some brutal stuff. I mean I’d read it to you but to hell with it trust me it’s real bad stuff." -- Donald Trump, 10/11/16

"Wikileaks, I love Wikileaks. And I said write a couple of them down. Let’s see. During a speech crooked Hillary Clinton, oh she’s crooked folks. She’s crooked as a three-dollar bill." -- Donald Trump, 10/10/16

"It’s just the latest evidence of the hatred that the Clinton campaign really has for everyday Americans and you see, and you see so much from these Wikileaks. You see so much. There’s so much." -- Donald Trump, 10/11/16

"I’ll tell you this Wikileaks stuff is unbelievable. It tells you the inner heart, you gotta read it and you gotta maybe get it because they’re not putting it out." -- Donald Trump, 10/12/16

"And one of the big advantages of me having a rather large microphone, and meaning a lot of people are listening, is that I can talk about Wikileaks and we are live, it’s amazing." -- Donald Trump, 10/12/16

"You hear this? Wikileaks. Big stuff but the press does not report it because honestly without the press, without the media, Hillary Clinton is nothing. She’s nothing okay? She’s nothing." -- Donald Trump, 10/12/16

"She would be the most dishonest and the most corrupt person ever elected to high office. The Wikileaks emails show the Department of Justice fed information to Clinton, now think of this. She is under investigation." -- Donald Trump, 10/12/16

"It’s not coincidence that these attacks come at the exact same moment and altogether at the same time as Wikileaks releases documents exposing the massive international corruption of the Clinton machine, including 2,000 more emails just this morning." -- Donald Trump, 10/13/16

"The sad part is we don’t talk about Wikileaks because it’s incredible. But Wikileaks just came out with a lot of new ones. And it would be wonderful if these very dishonest people back there would talk about it. It would be wonderful. It would be wonderful." -- Trump, 10/13/16

"It also comes at a time as Wikileaks unveils horrible, horrible things about Hillary Clinton but they’d rather talk about this." -- Donald Trump, 10/14/16

"The Hillary Clinton documents released by Wikileaks make more clear than ever, and they don’t cover them the way they’re supposed to be covering. There’s bad, bad stuff they’re not covering." -- Donald Trump, 10/15/16

"Wikileaks came out with lots of really unbelievable things. Just minutes ago. In fact, I almost delayed this speech by about two hours, it’s so interesting. But I decided you’re more important than anybody, okay? It’s all a big, beautiful fraud." -- Donald Trump, 10/15/16

"The media is an extension of the Clinton campaign as Wikileaks has proven, and they will not talk about Wikileaks." -- Donald Trump, 10/17/16

"I said open border, and she, open border, I don’t want open border but she, turned out she wanted open borders. Boy, that Wikileaks has done a job on her, hasn’t it?" -- Donald Trump, 10/20/16

"We’ve learned so much from Wikileaks. For example, Hillary believes it’s vital to deceive the people by having one public policy — [ booing ] — And a totally different policy in private. That’s okay" -- Donald Trump, 10/20/16

"We love Wikileaks. Wikileaks. They have revealed a lot. They’ve revealed that there is a great hostility toward Catholics. They reveal a great hostility toward Evangelicals." -- Donald Trump, 10/21/16

"A terrible Wikileaks was just released moments ago, which you’ll go home, you’ll see it, and you’ll be sickened by it and that she can get away with what she’s getting away with." -- Donald Trump, 10/25/16

"The Wikileaks revelations have exposed criminal corruption at the highest levels of our government." -- Donald Trump, 10/29/16

"Out today, Wikileaks just came out with a new one just a little while ago it’s just been shown that a rigged system with more collusion, probably illegal, between the Department of Justice the Clinton campaign and the State Department, you saw that" -- Donald Trump, 11/2/16

"Just today we learned Hillary Clinton was sending highly-classified information through her maid. Did you see?...This just came out, Wikileaks." -- Donald Trump, 11/5/16

This seems like a long thread but it is just a very small selection of quotes from Trump about Wikileaks in the final month of the campaign.

It doesn't even cover surrogates, who were also talking about it incessantly

So just keep this in mind when Trump says it was irrelevant

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