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Easy to see someone who published secrets related to american imperialism, would publish secrets about the candidate that was viewed as imperialist at the time.
by megous 6y ago
Easy to see someone who published secrets related to american imperialism, would publish secrets about the candidate that was viewed as imperialist at the time.
- rootusrootus 6y agoA charitable interpretation of his choices in 2016 would be that he thought he was bloodying the nose of the next US president, that he assumed like the rest of us that obviously Clinton was going to win. But it remains a fact that he chose to spill damaging information about one side and not the other, even though he had information on both. Unfortunately for him, the side he helped turns out to be just as eager for his head on a pike as the other would have been.
- thefucnjosh 6y agoJust as eager? more eager. If Clinton was doing this I have no doubt Fox News would defend Assange.
- ChrisKnott 6y agoIMO the tweets from Wikileaks immediately after Trump won support this interpretation. He hated Clinton since the diplomatic cable leak, and wanted to damage her, but never thought Trump would win.