Julian Assange, the founder of WikiLeaks, has offered guarded praise of Donald Trump, arguing the president-elect “is not a DC insider” and could mean an opportunity for positive as well as negative change in the US.
“Hillary Clinton’s election would have been a consolidation of power in the existing ruling class of the United States,” Assange told the Italian newspaper la Repubblica.
“Donald Trump is not a DC insider, he is part of the wealthy ruling elite of the United States, and he is gathering around him a spectrum of other rich people and several idiosyncratic personalities.”
In the week leading up to the election, Assange used his whistleblowing website to publish a cascade of emails connected to the Democratic party and the Clinton campaign.
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The releases were highly damaging to Clinton, and US intelligence officials now believe they were hacked by Russia and passed to WikiLeaks to boost Trump’s bid for the White House. Assange has repeatedly declined to be drawn on the source of the hacked emails he published.
Some of the earliest and most high-profile WikiLeaks revelations, including those based on leaks by Chelsea Manning, occurred when Clinton was secretary of state.
“Hillary Clinton and the network around her imprisoned one of our alleged sources for 35 years, Chelsea Manning, tortured her according to the United Nations, in order to implicate me personally,” Assange claimed in the interview. He went on to accuse Clinton of being the “chief proponent and architect” of the military intervention in Libya, which he claimed had created instability throughout the region and the refugee crisis in Europe.
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I still don't know if he's alive though, I'm taking these interviews with a grain of salt until we get a video proving he's still living.
What are you on????
Once again, he fails to discuss the reality of his actions and the overwhelmingly negative consequences it will have on citizens of a country in which he does not live (nor would he want to even if he could). I hope he cashed that check and is making good use of it.
The man who'd brought the most truth to the world is shunned by LGBT people.
All it takes to take down a hero is a strong smear campaign and the establishment could even take down Luther King had he lived these days.
Be more critical, you guys belong to a minority group, Assange is the one who gave the world all the information to what's actually going on. Even Icelandic president had off shore accounts, who knows what happens in DC.