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i dont think that necessarily makes him 'pro trump'

by snewk 10y ago

dharma1 10y ago
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-10-11/how-julian-assange-turned-wikileaks-into-trump-s-best-friend https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-10-11/how-julia... https://www.theguardian.com/media/2016/oct/14/wiileaks-from-liberal-beacon-to-a-prop-for-trump-what-has-happened https://www.theguardian.com/media/2016/oct/14/wiileaks-from-...
- onetimeusename 10y ago
  from the bloomberg article: >Sarah Harrison, a British journalist and a longtime WikiLeaks editor, says that the organization would publish documents damaging to Trump if it had them. The bloomberg article also quoted someone from reddit as evidence that the right wing was 'shivering in anticipation' of leaks damaging to clinton. It's not great journalism and seems biased but it doesn't seem there is any evidence that assange is pro trump.
  - dharma1 10y ago
    The Guardian one is slightly better. I don't think there is real evidence, and Assange isn't so stupid as to publicly say he supports Trump (even if he does, for whatever reason). But if there is no agenda, it does make one wonder why the Wikileaks of late have focused on Clinton in the run up to the election
    - cwkoss 10y ago
      Occams Razor says that they've only received credible leaks about the HRC campaign. Seems to me like anyone with credible evidence against Trump can sell it to the highest bidding mainstream media org and be sure it will get national attention. Why would a Trump leaker need wikileaks?
    - fluentintypo 10y ago
      Simple. Wikileaks can only leak what others have hacked and submitted to them. Someone submitted a treasure-trove on Clinton and DNC. As soon as someone hacks the RNC and Trump (though Trump does not use email at-all, ever) and submits the result of that hack to leak to Wikileaks, they will be published. Not for nothing, but "the rest of the World" is pretty tired of America being a bully and starting never-ending wars. It is really not that spectacular that an anti-war person like Assange doesn't want the Presidency to go to Clinton or Trump, but of whom want more war and are not even limiting themselves to just 'the middle east' anymore. It is far more likely that Assange wants the only anti-war candidate in office - Gary Johnson.

i dont think that necessarily makes him 'pro trump'

by snewk 10y ago

i dont think that necessarily makes him 'pro trump'

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-10-11/how-julian-assange-turned-wikileaks-into-trump-s-best-friend https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-10-11/how-julia... https://www.theguardian.com/media/2016/oct/14/wiileaks-from-liberal-beacon-to-a-prop-for-trump-what-has-happened https://www.theguardian.com/media/2016/oct/14/wiileaks-from-...

onetimeusename 10y ago
from the bloomberg article: >Sarah Harrison, a British journalist and a longtime WikiLeaks editor, says that the organization would publish documents damaging to Trump if it had them. The bloomberg article also quoted someone from reddit as evidence that the right wing was 'shivering in anticipation' of leaks damaging to clinton. It's not great journalism and seems biased but it doesn't seem there is any evidence that assange is pro trump.
- dharma1 10y ago
  The Guardian one is slightly better. I don't think there is real evidence, and Assange isn't so stupid as to publicly say he supports Trump (even if he does, for whatever reason). But if there is no agenda, it does make one wonder why the Wikileaks of late have focused on Clinton in the run up to the election
  - cwkoss 10y ago
    Occams Razor says that they've only received credible leaks about the HRC campaign. Seems to me like anyone with credible evidence against Trump can sell it to the highest bidding mainstream media org and be sure it will get national attention. Why would a Trump leaker need wikileaks?
  - fluentintypo 10y ago
    Simple. Wikileaks can only leak what others have hacked and submitted to them. Someone submitted a treasure-trove on Clinton and DNC. As soon as someone hacks the RNC and Trump (though Trump does not use email at-all, ever) and submits the result of that hack to leak to Wikileaks, they will be published. Not for nothing, but "the rest of the World" is pretty tired of America being a bully and starting never-ending wars. It is really not that spectacular that an anti-war person like Assange doesn't want the Presidency to go to Clinton or Trump, but of whom want more war and are not even limiting themselves to just 'the middle east' anymore. It is far more likely that Assange wants the only anti-war candidate in office - Gary Johnson.