7, January 2017 Julian Assange, hero or villain?
Assange has been hailed as a hero or villain
depending on prevailing circumstances.
Remember when Republicans excoriated
WikiLeaks for exposing war crimes that were being committed in Iraq and
Afghanistan during the Bush administration? At that time Democrats were
praising WikiLeaks for bringing much need transparency. But that all changed
when WikiLeaks published unflattering emails from the 2016 Clinton campaign.
Sarah Palin, who formerly called for Assange’s execution, recently lauded him
as a hero, saying "I want to apologize to Julian Assange. He’s doing a
really important service.”
In 2010, Trump thundered "Assange should
be given the death penalty." But he now seems to be cozying up to his old
nemesis.
In a recent Fox interview Assange agreed with
Trump’s belief that Russia was not responsible for hacking DNC’s emails. It is
clear that both Assange and Trump have their own hidden agendas.
Furious with Clinton’s demands that he be
extradited and charged for high crimes, there is little that Assange
orchestrated a selective release of emails favorable to Trump in the hope that
he might get a reprieve from his self-imposed exile in the Ecuadorian embassy
in London. Trump eagerly accepted Assange’s exoneration of Russian involvement
hoping to deflect public attention away from his huge Russian business
interests. It is time the public demands that Trump quit stalling and release
his tax returns which might shed light on his BFF with Vladimir Putin.
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