WikiLeaks has launched a legal fund as it seeks to file a lawsuit against The Guardian for publishing what it claims is a false story regarding one-time Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort.
The U.K.-based paper reported Tuesday that Manafort held several secret meetings with WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange at the Ecuadorian Embassy in London, where he has lived in asylum since 2012. One of the alleged meetings occurred months before the 2016 presidential election.
"WikiLeaks launches legal fund to sue the Guardian for publishing entirely fabricated story 'Manafort held secret talks with Assange in Ecuadorian embassy' — which spread all over the world today. It is time the Guardian paid a price for fabricating news," WikiLeaks wrote on Twitter.
The tweet contained a link to a GoFundMe page, which had raised around $30,000 in one day.
WikiLeaks released hacked emails from Hillary Clinton's campaign chairman John Podesta shortly before the 2016 election. Manafort, political consultant Roger Stone, and his associate Jerome Corsi are alleged to have played a role in the releasing of the emails.
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