 After the election, WikiLeaks also requested that the president-elect push Australia to appoint Assange as ambassador to the US.After "The New York Times" published a fragment of Donald Trump's tax returns for one year, WikiLeaks asked Trump Jr. for one or more of his father's tax returns, explaining that it would be in his father's best interest because it would "dramatically improve the perception of our impartiality" and not come "through the most biased source (e.g.NYT/MSNBC)."