I wonder if anyone will ask Julian Assange why he helped Donald Trump get elected? [View all]

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(From 2016)
FiveThirtyEight
December 23, 2016

HOW MUCH DID WIKILEAKS HURT HILLARY CLINTON?

How did Hillary Clinton blow a 7-percentage-point lead over Donald Trump in the final month of the campaign?
Most of the post-election analysis has revolved around FBI Director James Comey's letter to Congress on October 28.

Less attention was spent on the role that Wikileaks played.
Until, that is, news broke that the CIA thought Russia actively tried to help Trump win; figures connected to the Russian government allegedly hacked Clinton campaign chairman John Podesta's emails, which then found their way to Wikileaks.
So, what effect did Wikileaks have on the election?

More:
https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/wikileaks-hillary-clinton/









JULIAN ASSANGE DID NOT WANT HILLARY CLINTON TO BECOME PRESIDENT

Assange wrote on Wikileaks in February, 2016:
"I have had years of experience dealing with Hillary Clinton and have read thousands of her cables.
Hillary lacks judgement and will push the United States into endless, stupid wars which spread terrorism....she should certainly not become the President of the United States."

In a 2017 interview by Amy Goodman, Julian Assange said that choosing between Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump is like choosing between cholera or gonorrhea.
"Personally, I would prefer neither."

In November, 2017, it was revealed that the Wikileaks Twitter account secretly corresponded with Donald Trump Jr. during the 2016 presidential election.
The correspondence shows how Wikileaks solicited the co-operation of Trump Jr., a campaign surrogate and adviser in the campaign of his father.
Wikileaks urged the Trump campaign to reject the results of the 2016 presidential election at a time when it looked as if the Trump Campaign would lose.

More:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WikiLeaks
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