WIKILEAKS reached out to Donald Trump’s camp after he won the US Presidency to ask the billionaire to use his newly acquired influence to suggest Julian Assange be appointed as the Australian Ambassador to America.

The incredible request was part of a series of private exchanges between WikiLeaks and President Trump’s son Donald Trump Jr during the presidential campaign and before the inauguration.

The messages have formed part of a congressional investigation looking into Russian interference in last year’s US election.

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According to The Atlantic, after months of exchanges, the WikiLeaks Twitter account sent another missive to Mr Trump Jnr on December 16, when his father was President-elect.

“Hi Don. Hope you’re doing well!” the message read.

“In relation to Mr. Assange: Obama/Clinton placed pressure on Sweden, UK and Australia (his home country) to illicitly go after Mr. Assange. It would be real easy and helpful for your dad to suggest that Australia appoint Assange ambassador to [Washington,] DC.”

Wikileaks even suggested how Mr Trump might approach the matter.

“That’s a real smart tough guy and the most famous australian [sic] you have!’ or something similar,” WikiLeaks wrote.

“They won’t do it but it will send the right signals to Australia, UK + Sweden to start following the law and stop bending it to ingratiate themselves with the Clintons.”

Wikileaks did not respond to The Atlantic for comment.

When asked about the reports a DFAT spokesman said: “Australian ambassadors who represent Australia overseas are appointed by the Australian Government.”

Mr Assange responded to the story on Twitter.

I cannot confirm the alleged DM's from @DonaldJTrumpJr to @WikiLeaks. @WikiLeaks does not keep such records and the Atlantic's presentation is edited and clearly does not have the full context. However, even those published by the Atlantic show that: 1/ — Julian Assange 🔹 (@JulianAssange) November 13, 2017

WikiLeaks loves its pending publications and ignores those who ask for details. Trump Jr. was rebuffed just like Cambridge Analytica. In both cases WikiLeaks had publicly teased the publications. Thousands of people asked about them. 2/ — Julian Assange 🔹 (@JulianAssange) November 13, 2017

WikiLeaks can be very effective at convincing even high profile people that it is their interest to promote links to its publications. 3/ — Julian Assange 🔹 (@JulianAssange) November 13, 2017

WikiLeaks has such chutzpah that it allegedly tried to convince Trump Jr to leak his father's tax returns & his own "Russian lawyer meeting" emails (he did). WikiLeaks appears to beguile some people into transparency by convincing them that it is in their interest. 4/ — Julian Assange 🔹 (@JulianAssange) November 14, 2017

Mr Trump Jnr did not respond to the message according to The Atlantic.

However he took to Twitter to respond after the story was published.

Here is the entire chain of messages with @wikileaks (with my whopping 3 responses) which one of the congressional committees has chosen to selectively leak. How ironic! 1/3 pic.twitter.com/SiwTqWtykA — Donald Trump Jr. (@DonaldJTrumpJr) November 14, 2017

Mr Assange founded Wikileaks in 2006. The organisation has been accused of helping Russia disseminate hacked information and data during the Presidential campaign.

Hillary Clinton has described WikiLeaks as a “tool of Russian intelligence”.

Mr Trump Jr mostly ignored the messages from the WikiLeaks account. However he did correspond on a number of occasions in the contact that began on September 20, 2016.

Among the requests, WikiLeaks also asked that if Mr Trump lost the election that his camp would not acknowledge the result.

On Election Day, November 8, WikiLeaks wrote: “Hi Don if your father ‘loses’ we think it is much more interesting if he DOES NOT concede and spends time CHALLENGING the media and other types of rigging that occurred — as he has implied that he might do”.

WikiLeaks also wanted Mr Trump Jnr to leak them his father’s sought after tax returns.

“Hey Don. We have an unusual idea,” WikiLeaks wrote on October 21.

“Leak us one or more of your father’s tax returns,” they wrote.

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“If we publish them it will dramatically improve the perception of our impartiality.

“That means that the vast amount of stuff that we are publishing on Clinton will have much higher impact, because it won’t be perceived as coming from a ‘pro-Trump’ ‘pro-Russia’ source.”

Mr Trump Jr did not respond to that request.