Julian Assange: ‘Who knows’ if WikiLeaks emails swayed U.S. election?

Yahoo! News ^ | January 3, 2017 | Michael Walsh

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WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange claimed in a new interview that he is completely confident that the Russian government was not the source of the hacked emails that his organization released leading up to the U.S. presidential election. He also shrugged off the question of whether the politically damaging emails affected the outcome of the race.

The publisher of classified and private information released embarrassing emails from Hillary Clinton’s campaign chairman, John Podesta, and the Democratic National Committee (DNC).

Inside the Ecuadorian Embassy in London, Fox News political pundit Sean Hannity asked Assange to address the allegation that WikiLeaks was a tool employed by Moscow to interfere with the U.S. election.

“Can you say to the American people, unequivocally, that you did not get this information about the DNC, John Podesta’s emails, can you tell the American people 1,000 percent that you did not get it from Russia or anybody associated with Russia?” Hannity inquired.

“We can say, we have said repeatedly that over the last two months, that our source is not the Russian government and it is not a state party,” Assange responded....

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I wouldn’t say Wikileaks swayed the election. Hillary Clinton’s own actions, along with the DNC’s, are what really swayed the elections. Wikileaks only exposed them, and now they want to blame the messenger. More blame projection as usual, never take responsibility.