Dnarever wrote on Feb 22
nd, 2020 at 8:42am:
Aussie wrote on Feb 20
th, 2020 at 10:22am:
Link.This makes no sense. Assange has already said he did not get the emails from Russia.
It makes a lot of sense if it was the reason that he originally said that he didn't get it from Russia.
In fact at the time that he said that it wasn't Russia that made no sense and at that time he was supporting the Trump campaign by making that statement it also made no sense unless he was going to get something for it.
At the time when he was playing up to Trump, Talking to trumps people meeting with Trump people etc I thought it was in an effort to get himself out of the mess he was in with the USA.
Assange clearly done Trump a favour which is not typical of his behaviour at all?
There had to have been a reason and even speculating from the time something like this was always the most likely.
Assange did the email dump to get back at Hillary. It's inconceivable that a guy like Assange would be pro-Trump, but that, perhaps, is the price of revenge. Assange was playing politics, not free speech.
Assange may have thought a cleanskin like Trump could undermine the whole US Military Industrial/Surveillance Complex, but that would have been incredibly naive. The US would come after Assange no matter who was in power.
But, if the Trump camp were promising Assange a pardon from day 1 of the campaign, Assange had a motive.
This was, remember, Roger Stone's claim - he was in with Wikileaks. He had said this long before Trump made his public request to Putin at the campaign rally. "Russia, if you're listening..." The email dump went live only a few days later.
Mueller didn't get to the bottom of any of this, but that doesn't mean the
motives of the people involved weren't heavily influenced by these connections.
Trump could easily pardon Assange and wear this as a badge of pride with his base, but he will also make some enemies with the Pentagon and Republican Hawks.
I have no doubt that happened to Obama when he pardoned Bradley Manning.