John Podesta's Tweets Tweak WikiLeaks' Julian Assange

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Hillary Clinton campaign chairman John Podesta (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

Friday, 14 October 2016 06:36 PM EDT ET

Clinton campaign chief John Podesta has fired back at Julian Assange for leaking his private emails by poking fun of the WikiLeaks founder in a series of taunting tweets.

Assange — holed up in the Ecuadorian Embassy in London for four years after facing rape charges and in fear the U.S. will extradite him — has nonetheless released Podesta's private emails.

As The Hill reports, the emails released have contained campaign strategies to Podesta's secret to cooking risotto — none of which have been election-shaking bombshells thus far.

So Podesta fired back Friday with tweets showing him preparing food at a rally for the Democratic presidential nominee:

 

 

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