Assange: WikiLeaks Trump info no worse than him

[think]

Assange: WikiLeaks’s Trump info no worse than him

BY MARK HENSCH - 08/26/16 11:53 AM EDT

WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange says his group’s intel on Donald Trump pales in comparison to the billionaire’s own rhetoric.

Assange, whose organization has released embarrassing Democratic National Committee emails believed to have been hacked by Russian entities, said the group doesn't have anything on Trump that is more controversial than the GOP presidential nominee's own public comments.

“We do have some information about the Republican campaign,” he said Friday, according to The Washington Post.

“I mean, it’s from a point of view of an investigative journalist organization like WikiLeaks, the problem with the Trump campaign is it’s actually hard for us to publish much more controversial material than what comes out of Donald Trump’s mouth every second day," Assange said.

"I mean, that’s a very strange reality for most of the media to be in."..

Read more:
http://thehill.com/blogs/ballot-box/presidential-races/293453-assange-wikileaks-trump-info-no-worse-than-him

[JHan]

1. Leak it and let us decide then.

[Cha]

2. Yeah, like I'm going to take his word for it.

[think]

3. You think Wikileaks would sit on dirt about Trump? They exposed potential war crimes under Bush.

Why would they sit on dirt about Trump?

[brush]

6. Oh come on, because they wanted trump to win.

[JHan]

7. I don't share your confidence in the motivations of Assange

Wikileaks acted like a Trump SuperPac last year, are we supposed to forget that?

And wikileaks lost the moral high ground years ago. Assange is a russian stooge.

My personal view is this: I'm a liberal, so I'll assess the methods and means information was obtained. If I suspect information is cherry picked to manipulate perception of someone, that's bad enough - when that information was stolen, that makes it worse. If some of it could be fake, that's outright propaganda. A previous leak that was useful doesn't wash away Assange's other sins. The organization has changed since then, in fact since 2010 thereabouts.

"After Clinton claimed that Russian hackers had been the source of the leak, Assange deflected the allegation in part by pointing out that a low-level Democratic Party staffer, Seth Rich, had been murdered weeks earlier while walking home from a bar in Washington. Although police believe Rich was the victim of a botched robbery attempt, Assange hinted at a darker possibility: that Rich was murdered for sharing documents with WikiLeaks. “Our sources take risks,” Assange said ominously. (The Rich family criticized Assange for “pushing unproven and harmful theories about Seth's murder.”)

"Even so, Assange and the Trump campaign have lately seemed to be very much in sync, with WikiLeaks operating at times as a sort of extension of the alt-right press. After a televised forum in early September, when the Drudge Report speculated that Hillary Clinton had worn an earpiece, WikiLeaks posted an earpiece-related e-mail from Clinton aide Huma Abedin. There was no mention that on the same day, Clinton had visited the United Nations, where translation earpieces are the norm, nor that the Clinton campaign denied the allegation. When Clinton collapsed after a Sept. 11th memorial service, WikiLeaks tweeted a poll, which it later deleted, asking readers to vote on the most plausible theory for what had happened. The choices did not include the campaign’s explanation—dehydration and pneumonia—but did include three made-up ones: Parkinson’s, multiple sclerosis, and, somewhat cryptically, “Allergies and personality.”"

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-10-11/how-julian-assange-turned-wikileaks-into-trump-s-best-friend

[leftynyc]

9. Because he's looking for help

in getting his pathetic rapist ass out of the embassy and hopes don the con will provide that help. It's not rocket science.

[True_Blue]

11. Yes I do

Because Assange wanted Trump ro win. A former associate of his from Wikileaks said on Showtime's series The Circus that Assange wanted Trump to win because he's an anarchist and Trump would bring down the US.

[think]

12. Got a link and a quote? Never heard of The Circus...

[True_Blue]

18. I watched it on Showtime

It's a 16 part series on the election. I don't have a link, but here's a clip of one of the interviews on The Circus -
https://m.

Assange absolutely wanted Trump to win. No doubt about it.

[think]

20. Thank you /nt

[RonniePudding]

15. GMAFB

[bettyellen]

16. Of course they would. They hate HRC and Obama and became a propaganda machine...

Stuff they tweeted out was give false context to sound scandalous. They lied and said they had more damaging stuff - Aided the BS narrative as much as Comey did.

Only real Hillary haters missed how partisan they were.

[True_Blue]

5. Selective leaking

I'll bet Trump has enough dirt to fill the Grand Canyon.

[SidDithers]

4. Russia hasn't given Wikileaks the stuff that's damaging to Trump...

Putin's holding that info himself.

Sid

[BlueStateLib]

8. Interview with Fox's Sean Hannity was conducted in the Ecuadorian embassy in London airs tonight

The Delegitimization Of Donald Trump

Assange tells Fox News in an interview set to air Tuesday evening. "They are trying to say that President-elect Trump is not a legitimate president."

The interview, with Fox's Sean Hannity, was conducted in the Ecuadorian embassy in London, where Assange is a fugitive from European authorities. WikiLeaks' publications of leaked emails of the Democratic National Committee and Hillary Clinton campaign chairman John Podesta
http://www.usnews.com/news/national-news/articles/2017-01-03/julian-assange-outgoing-obama-administration-trying-to-delegitimize-trump

[ismnotwasm]

10. Fuck Julian Assange.

[ucrdem]

13. Yes he's just an adorable straight shooter who speaks his mind.

Jules finds love at last.

[NCTraveler]

14. The Trump Humpers I know are praising this rapist non-stop.

Some of us have know how sick Assange is for a long time. His mental issues were clear at a young age. All one has to do is read his history.

[think]

17. Did you read about the Iraq war leaks?

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/middleeast/iraq/8083084/Wikileaks-Release-has-exposed-the-terrifying-reality-of-the-Iraq-War.html

[NCTraveler]

19. I've read a shitload about that fuck up.

In so many places. I don't hang my hat on mentally ill narcissistic rapists because they once did something that had a positive effect.

What does Iraq have to do with Assanges blatant Trump Humping? I'm sure Hannity will be a hit for many tonight. Maybe dumb asses will learn more about Iraq and the beautiful Motherland.

[Adrahil]

21. So I guess transparency really means...

they show us just what they think we need to know.

Fuck Assange. He's a shitstain.