As Wikileaks celebrated its 10th anniversary in Berlin with founder Julian Assange vowing to publish new "significant" documents related to the U.S. presidential elections ahead of the Nov. 8 vote, Hillary Clinton said she did not remember ever joking about a drone attack on Assange during her tenure as secretary of state, Politico reported.
"I don't know anything about what [WikiLeaks] is talking about, and I don't recall any joke. It would have been a joke had it been said, but I don't recall that," Clinton said of a report published Sunday by the website True Pundit.
The website cited anonymous "State Department sources" in the report to claim Clinton, in 2010, asked some staff members, "Can't we just drone this guy?" referring to Assange, who was then preparing to release 250,000 secret U.S. cables.
Clinton campaign manager Robby Mook declined to comment on the rumor, telling WTTG Fox 5 DC reporter Ronica Cleary, "I'm reticent to comment on anything that the Wikileaks people have said. They've made a lot of accusations in the past."
"Donald Trump and his allies are trying to do everything they can to change the debate here right now . . . They got to find some way to change this up, and they're trying to do that by doubling down on conspiracy theories," Mook added.
The former secretary of state, who was in Harrisburg, Pa., campaigning, continued to attack Donald Trump over his secrecy regarding tax returns, the Daily Mail reported.
Wikileaks has so far released approximately 20,000 emails from seven accounts belonging to DNC staffers in July.
When was asked if she was worried about Assange's recent promise to soon release documents that could affect the November election, Clinton retorted, "Well, I don't know anything about what he's talking about."
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