Despite his previous praise, Donald Trump has distanced himself from WikiLeaks after the arrest of Julian Assange in London

The President, Donald Trump, He moved away from Wikileaks on Thursday after his founder, Julian Assange, was arrested in London in recent hours. at the request of the Ministry of Justice, which accuses him of "conspiracy" to infiltrate government computers.

"I do not know anything about Wikileaks, it's not my business"the president told the media at a press conference during which he received South Korean President Moon Jae-in at the White House.

The statement was quite different from the one he had made during the 2016 presidential campaign, when he had said at an event in Pennsylvania: "I love WikiLeaks."

His statements, in a funny tone, appeared at the height of the campaign that led him to the presidency of the United States, after WikiLeaks leaked emails from its Democratic opponent, Hillary Clinton.

Assange was arrested at the Embbady of Ecuador in London at the request of Washington, who accuses the Australian-born activist of coordinating with former soldier Chelsea Manning to crack down on government computer access codes to access clbadified information without a trace.

In 2010, Manning disclosed WikiLeaks on 700,000 documents clbadified as "top secret" on the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and cables from the State Department, which was a setback for the country's diplomacy and fueled a debate about Washington's role in the world.

Trump said today that he did not know "Nothing" on this case and added that it will be the Attorney General, William Barr, who will decide the way forward.

In 2017, consulted on the situation of Assange, Trump said that "did not approve or support" WikiLeaks' decision to broadcast leaked emails and that he would not be involved in any US government decision to arrest Assange.

"I'm not involved in this decision," said Trump. The badociated press at the time on the arrest of Assange. "But if they want to do it, it's good for me."

Last year, the authorities accused a Trump collaborator, Roger Stone, having contacted Wikileaks during the 2016 election campaign to ask him to filter the emails of the then Democratic candidate, Hillary Clinton, in order to benefit from the candidacy of the current president.

Trump also discussed Thursday Barr's decision to create a task force to badess whether the already-completed investigation into the so-called Russian conspiracy, involving alleged links between his electoral team and Russia, could have constitute authority "by the government.

Barr announced Wednesday this measure at a hearing before the Senate in which He noted that the authorities had spied on the Trump campaign teamalthough he added that there was no indication that this monitoring had not taken place in accordance with the law.

Trump expressed his desire to open an investigation into what happened: "I think what he said (Barr) was absolutely true, they were totally spying on my campaign (…). I will go one step further, in my opinion, it was an illegal and unprecedented espionage. Something that should not happen again in our country, "he said.

According to US media, President Trump has publicly praised WikiLeaks more than a hundred times, and there was even a poster of Assange in a Republican debate room.

"WikiLeaks, I like WikiLeaks"said Trump in Pennsylvania; "Wikileaks is like a treasure chest"He said in Michigan and "I like to read WikiLeaks"He said in Ohio.