WASHINGTON Donald Trump appeared to believe that Roger Stone had inside information on WikiLeaks during the 2016 campaign, a former Trump campaign official testified at Stones trial on Tuesday.

Rick Gates, the former Trump campaign official who took a plea deal with former special counsel Robert Mueller, testified during Stones trial that Trump indicated that more information would be coming after he got off a phone call with Stone in July 2016. That was after WikiLeaks published stolen Democratic National Committee emails but months before it published emails stolen from former Hillary Clinton campaign chairman John Podesta.

Gates said he was in communication with Stone, that he assumed Stone was in contact with WikiLeaks, and that he believed Stone had access to nonpublic information about what WikiLeaks had planned.

Gates testified that the Trump campaign saw WikiLeaks potential disclosures as gift that we had not sought, but that it made campaign officials happy. He said the campaign was in disbelief about the disclosure of the DNCs emails, and that a number of Trump administration officials believed it would give our campaign a leg up.