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How will this play out I wonder? I thought the current admin "loved wikileaks".
by peteradio 8y ago
How will this play out I wonder? I thought the current admin "loved wikileaks".
- dd36 8y agoHe’ll be nominated to the Fed.
- ryanlol 8y agoPretty sure Obama DOJ refused to charge this.
- weaklearner 8y agowell when obama was president assange was hiding in the embassy so I think attributing much significance to fact the obama administration did not issue this indictment is a bit tenuous.
- ryanlol 8y agoNormally in a situation like this you would indict and keep it sealed, that's not what happened here. There was a deliberate decision not to indict which changed when Trump and his good friends Pompeo and Mattis came to power.
- weaklearner 8y agoYeah it seems that's true/I was wrong. I was reading george conway's twitter and I saw this tweet thread by a washingtonpost journalist `If this is the only subject to which the charges relate (& there are none on election interference or other topics), that’s notable. It also raises the question of what changed from when the Obama administration decided it couldn’t make a case, aside from political/DoJ leadership' https://twitter.com/mattzap https://twitter.com/mattzap
- marpstar 8y agoAlmost certainly done so that Assange can be brought to USA for testimony in the fallout of the failed Mueller probe. Calling it now: Assange will walk free.
- peteradio 8y agoWhat is the failed Mueller probe?
- mrguyorama 8y agoI assume they mean the same one that secured over ten convictions and secured something like $20 billion in fines and recovered illegal value
- jessaustin 8y agoFines? Can we see that receipt? I didn't take Papadopoulos for a wealthy man...
- belltaco 8y agoWas $20 million, it was for Manafort's tax evasion on about $75 million in unreported lobbying income. >Judge T.S. Ellis ordered Manafort to pay restitution of $6M-$25M
- jessaustin 8y agoEh, three orders of magnitude, close enough for deep-state work...
- mrguyorama 8y agoGood god why did I think it was in the billions range?!
- elbrian 8y agoThe probe came to a conclusion, which means it did not fail. What that conclusion was, we may never know.
- belltaco 8y agoTrump said today that "he knows nothing about wikileaks". In 2010 he said Assange should be given the death penalty for leaking Bush admin's diplomatic cable. In 2016, during the campaign he praised wikileaks more than 100 times. Now he knows nothing about it.