Posted on 01/03/2017 6:25:58 AM PST by Enlightened1
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange says there's an "obvious" reason the Obama administration has focused on Russia's alleged role in Democratic hacks leading up to Donald Trump's electoral win.
“They’re trying to delegitimize the Trump administration as it goes into the White House,” Assange said during an interview with Fox News's Sean Hannity airing Tuesday night, according to a transcript of excerpts from the network.
“They are trying to say that President-elect Trump is not a legitimate president," Assange said during the interview, which was conducted at the Ecuadorian embassy in London where he has been staying.
"Our publications had wide uptake by the American people, they’re all true,” Assange continued. “But that’s not the allegation that’s being presented by the Obama White House.”
Assange reiterated the group's denial that Russia was the source of the Democratic documents released over the summer.
“Our source is not a state party, so the answer for our interactions is no,” he said.
In December, Assange told Hannity that the documents the anti-secrecy group received looked “very much like they’re from the Russians” but said his source was not them.
When asked if he thought WikiLeaks influenced the 2016 election, Assange pointed to private comments from members of the Democratic National Committee (DNC) and Hillary Clinton's campaign in documents published by the group.
“Did [WikiLeaks] change the outcome of the election? Who knows, it’s impossible to tell," Assange said.
"But if it did, the accusation is that the true statements of Hillary Clinton and her campaign manager, John Podesta, and the DNC head Debbie Wasserman Schultz, their true statements is what changed the election.
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The jug eared negro is hell bent on destroying our government. May he rot in hell.
YOu might say the Obama Administration, AND the media are trying to do this. The media is non existent. Only low informational voters, think the Russians influenced the outcome.
This is all noise, and another reason for Trump to ignore the media as much as possible.
They could be trying to set the stage for something much worse than simple deligitimization. Obama and co. do not want Trump having the power to run down the truth of Obama’s own illegitimacy.
I would expect Anti-Semitic echoing from left-wing and SJW sites, but it’s not considered cool here.
There is no way to know that the collective ‘they’ is actually a (((They))), and such a suggestion is rather repulsive.
“This is all noise, and another reason for Trump to ignore the media as much as possible.”
Much as I agree with your overall sentiment Trump should not ignore the media. They have definitely been knocked down for now but Trump and Co. need to keep their foot on the MSM’s throat to figuratively finish them off for good.
Whoda thunkit?
Obama needs to be told that THIS slash and burn out the door will be his legacy.
I’m talking about ignoring them, as in not to listen to them. They are going to be a negative influence. They will not report accurately anything. To think, in our life time, we have to scrounge around to get the facts.
We’re getting fake news with regard to just about everything.
J. R. R. Tolkien’s response to the Third Reich immediately comes to mind, but I’m not going to bother. As a Canadian, I know passive-aggressive trolling when I see it. I just hope it makes you feel better.
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