GOD BLESS WIKILEAKS – Julian Assange is a hero -> America owes this man one thing -> FREEDOM!!! Thank you, sir – THANK YOU!#WIKILEAKS pic.twitter.com/zFcvGUmPRA — David Duke (@DrDavidDuke) November 9, 2016

David Duke, the former Ku Klux Klan leader who ran unsuccessfully for the U.S. Senate in Louisiana, tweeted “God Bless WikiLeaks” early Wednesday, shortly after Donald Trump won the presidential election.

WikiLeaks published a trove of emails that revealed embarrassing and sometimes damaging information from within the Clinton campaign. The emails showed that Clinton’s aides struggled to get past the controversy over her use of a private email server and expressed frustration at their candidate.

WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange said Tuesday that he was under “enormous pressure” to stop publishing the emails, The Washington Post’s Kristine Guerra reported.

But in a statement, Assange said that “publishing is what we do. To withhold the publication of such information until after the election would have been to favour one of the candidates above the public’s right to know.”

Trump’s campaign tried to distance itself from Duke and other white nationalist leaders and groups who have enthusiastically pledged their support for the now president-elect.

In a weird twist, Trump was listed next to Duke on the Louisiana ballot. Duke lost in the Senate race.