 WikiLeaks also asked Trump Jr. to leak his own e-mails to them days after "The New York Times" broke a story about e-mail correspondence between Trump Jr. and a Kremlin-affiliated lawyer; WikiLeaks said that it would be "beautifully confounding" for them to publish the e-mails and that it would deprive other news outlets from putting a negative spin on the correspondence.Trump Jr. provided this correspondence to congressional investigators looking into Russian interference in the 2016 election.In August 2016, after WikiLeaks published thousands of DNC emails, it was claimed that Russian intelligence had hacked the e-mails and leaked them to WikiLeaks.