Just a guess but Assange likely didn’t release them due to the damning content and wanted the FBI to do the right thing... good hypothesis?
He did know that James Comey was a Clinton Foundation hack with past experience with Loretta Lynch, no?
And then there was that little Loretta Lynch - Bill Clinton tarmac chat about the “grandchildren”.
If JA was hoping the Democrat Crime Machine was gonna do the right thing then he’d have to be very naive. Especially after Seth Rich was taken out and he all but admitted Rich was the leaker.