BREAKING:US authorities have prepared charges to seek the arrest of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange

[bathroommonkey76]

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[JHan]

1. Assange : "So this is the thanks I get?"

[bathroommonkey76]

2. Trump will pardon him after he's convicted.

[JHan]

4. yep, probably.

[FBaggins]

7. Then why prepare charges at all?

"U.S. Authorities" = Trump administration

I prefer the "see? I'm not pro Russia!... Oops. We can't seem to catch the guy. Well... We would charge him if we could" interpretation.

[bathroommonkey76]

13. Trump has to much invested in Assange and

Wikileaks- Trump isn't sending a message at all.

Plus, let's not forget if Julian is arrested then there will be more leaks that could be damaging to the US and its allies.

[Blue_Tires]

14. +1

[The99thTimeLord]

3. With friends like this...

-Julian Assange

[TheBlackAdder]

28. This is what fascists do, they know Assange can turn later, so now is the time to silence him.

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Hitler killed the heads of the brownshirts after he rose to power to solidify his power structure.


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[wishstar]

5. Wonder what Assange knows about Trump Campaign/Russia/Wikileaks collusion? nt

[Initech]

11. Pizzagate, Clinton Cash, and Fast & Furious were all products of Wikileaks.

Hope Assange goes down in flames!

[wishstar]

24. Yes- alterations/falsifications of the Podesta emails were coordinated with Trump Campaign

Wikileaks didn't simply release original emails, but altered some of them to be more incriminating to Hillary

[Charles Bukowski]

6. The noose is tightening.

Time for Dickhead to to turn on Russia and Wikileaks!

[rufus dog]

25. That is my thought

They are going to go hard at both, fully ignoring the hypocracy. And the media will be a willing accomplish.

[Charles Bukowski]

35. Yup. They'll forget that Gump flat-out said he loves

wikileaks at a campaign rally and praise his toughness. That's why I haven't gone near any of the news networks since the day of the Comey letter.

[Maven]

8. No way this is unrelated to #TrumpRussia.

Don't get me wrong, I would love nothing more than to see shitbag Assange get his comeuppance, but something about this doesn't smell right.

[bathroommonkey76]

18. I have the same feeling.

But nothing with the Trump administration smells, or feels right. lol

[Maven]

23. True. It's almost impossible to be overly suspicious about their motives for everything. nt

[wishstar]

29. CIA, Intelligence services have pressured Pompeo and Justice Dept to take action

Pompeo recently stated that Wikileaks and Russia were working in conjunction. The election hacking and more recent revelations were the final straw.

[randome]

9. He finally got his wish.

To have something to distract from his impotence.

[NCTraveler]

21. This.

To a select group he will go down as a martyr. What he might not get is that he will lose just about all forms of communication.

[The99thTimeLord]

10. What if Trump is doing this just so there will be a trial?

What if he's planning to smear Hillary once and for all and put on a trial to highlight the Wikileak Podesta emails?

[wishstar]

26. But there is evidence some Podesta emails were altered/falsified before release

and releases were announced ahead of time by Roger Stone and others, and coordinated with points Trump made in his speeches-hence collusion with Trump officials with Wikileaks and Russia could be revealed

[The99thTimeLord]

30. I don't know where I stand on Trump KNOWING about his team colluding with Russia

"and coordinated with points Trump made in his speeches-hence collusion with Trump officials with Wikileaks and Russia could be revealed"

I think I see that as Trump taking advantage of a negative thing happening in the moment to Hillary. Even if it was like same day, we know Trump reads the news and probably was reading wikileaks first thing every morning. Or did he have the information before hand? If he did, then there's no doubt about it, that is absolutely him colluding with Russia.

[wishstar]

33. Trump made pertinent remarks in his speeches BEFORE the related leaks came out publicly

not just after the leaks were printed, so he was coached before hand on what was going to be released

[The99thTimeLord]

36. AHHHHH

Sorry, I understand. I hadn't realized that.

[charlyvi]

12. Sweet, Sweet Irony

The only reason Assange helped Trump win the WH was to prevent Hillary from arresting him. BWAHAHAHA! Karmic justice indeed.

[SirBrockington]

22. I Sure hope so

[underpants]

31. I said the whole time that Assange thought he would get asylum in Russia

Stupid. Putin is almost certainly using him.

[Leghorn21]

15. Wonder what his buddy Roger Stone will tweet about this?

Oh wait -

Twitter Locks Trump Associate Roger Stone's Account, Again

Stone lands in Twitter's penalty box after tweeting "I'm watching you and know what you're up to. Better watch your ass" to Media Matters communications director Laura Allison Keiter.

Posted on April 20, 2017, 19:03 GMT
Alex Kantrowitz
BuzzFeed News Reporter

Roger Stone is back in Twitter's penalty box.

Stone, a confidant to President Donald Trump and former adviser to his campaign, had his Twitter account temporarily locked again this week after tweeting "I'm watching you and know what you're up to. Better watch your ass" to Media Matters communications director Laura Allison Keiter on Wednesday afternoon. Twitter locked Stone's account in March following another rules violation.

Reached via Twitter, Keiter forwarded an email she received from Twitter Thursday morning confirming it locked Stone's account.

https://www.buzzfeed.com/alexkantrowitz/twitter-locks-trump-associate-roger-stones-account-again?utm_term=.rloaz08aE

[bathroommonkey76]

16. Stone probably has dozens of hateful troll accounts on Twitter.

He forgot which account he was using last night.

[Spider Jerusalem]

17. They'll have to get in line, Sweden has a prior claim (n/t)

[stonecutter357]

19. good.

[GliderGuider]

20. And so it begins.

May a Noachian fludde of indictments sweep them all away.

[nycbos]

27. I thought the Orangeman loved Wikileaks

[EthanBlue]

32. Confused.

Why? I'm not sure what would be gained by the WH by this. Are we supposed to buy that the WH wants to see him in jail? Don't get me wrong, I'd like him in jail; I just don't see what the White House wants with this.

[wishstar]

34. Overwhelming pressure from CIA and US Intelligence over national security threats by Wikileaks

WH cannot block this action. WH and Justice Dept. have to go along if CIA and all of our intelligence services are convinced Wikileaks has become a hostile threat to US national security, not just publishing information in whistleblower capacity. The actions of Wikileaks that started with Snowden has snowballed into increasingly more serious national security threats and working with Russia to influence our elections

[Arazi]

37. Old news. Assange has said there's been a GJ on him for years

It's why he's stayed at the Ecuadorian embassy.

The naysayers who said he was exaggerating or lying can now fuck off.

Please note, I'm not defending Assange but this is exactly what he's been saying for years.

Now he has proof dammit

[BainsBane]

38. That was to evade an arrest warrant for RAPE

That warrant still stands, and he's sill a fucking rapist and right-wing shill working to spread white nationalism throughout the US and Europe.

You just ignored a series of posts about support for a pro-life candidate who insists on showing ultrasounds of fetuses to women seeking abortion. Now you make excuses for Assange's evasion of an arrest warrant for rape. Somehow the fact escapes you the US government in power now isn't the same one that was in power when Assange decided to evade RAPE charges. That you insist an arrest warrant from an entirely different administration with opposite priorities justifies the rapist Assage's evasion of a Swedish arrest warrant is truly phenomenal. You don't even know what the warrant is for.

I am sick to fucking death of women's lives being treated as disposable in the name of "progressivism." It's nothing of the sort. Rape, pro-life, and white nationalism are not progressive. We are now to the point where any ultra-right wing advocate and cause is championed in the name of progressivism.

Yeah, so you tell rape victims who care about justice to fuck off. Declare them the enemy so you can defend a man committed to the spread of fascism. Talk about how you know politicians
get it as they actively work to undermine equal rights for women and as you express your contempt for rape survivors who seek justice because you can't tell the fucking difference between Eric Holder and Jeff Sessions. (Hint: the former was a black man and the current AG is a segregationist.) The former worked to make college campuses safer for women rather than places where rape went unpunished. Of course Holder is the enemy and Assange the hero. Assange rapes women while Holder prosecuted them.

Assange is the culmination of the politics of the white male self, with any restrictions on his access to female bodies treated with profane contempt. Fuck us. Who are we to imagine our lives could possibly count. "Progessivism" demands our subjugation. Progressivism demands that the fascist Assange be championed over the lives of lowly rape victims.

[Arazi]

39. I'm not defending Assange. I made that clear in my post

Don't put words in my mouth. I made one point - the rest of your post is made up bullshit