Paul Manafort denies secret Wikileaks meetings months before hacked Democrat emails released

Donald Trump’s former campaign chairman has vehemently denied reports that he held secret meetings with WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, including one that took place in 2016 just months before a trove of hacked Democratic emails were released on the whistle blowing website.Paul Manafort is said to have met with Mr Assange in the Ecuadorian embassy in London in 2013, 2015, and the spring of 2016.The third and final meeting is thought to have been around the time he was made a senior figur