BJ didn't have the advantage of wikileaks. He had to settle for the entire LMSM.
Posted on 10/15/2017 11:03:18 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Hillary Clinton on Monday accused WikiLeaks of working with Russia to deflect attention away from an infamous tape of Donald Trump bragging about groping women in the run-up to the US presidential election.
The former secretary of state's devastating election loss to Trump remains raw and she again lashed out at WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange and his alleged role in damaging her candidacy.
"Assange has become a kind of nihilistic opportunist who does the bidding of a dictator," she said in an interview with the Australian Broadcasting Corporation, referring to Russian president Vladimir Putin.
"WikiLeaks is unfortunately now practically a fully-owned subsidiary of Russian intelligence."
The US intelligence community concluded Putin ordered an influence campaign to discredit Clinton and had a "clear preference" for Trump in last year's poll.
Clinton used the bombshell Trump tape as an example of how WikiLeaks allegedly tried to deflect attention away from a bad news story, resurrecting the incident in the wake of Hollywood mogul Harvey Weinstein's fall from grace over his treatment of women.
In the 2005 videotape, which surfaced in October last year, Trump brags about being able to get away with groping women.
Trump said the comments were "locker-room banter". Several women subsequently accused him of sexual misconduct, which he denounced as lies.
Within hours of the tape emerging, WikiLeaks published more than 2,000 hacked emails from the personal account of Clinton's campaign chair John Podesta, which she said blunted its impact.
"WikiLeaks, which in the world in which we find ourselves promised hidden information, promised some kind of secret that might be of influence, was a very clever, diabolical response to the Hollywood Access tape," she said, referring to the Trump recording.
"And I've no doubt in my mind that there was some communication if not coordination to drop those the first time in response to the Hollywood Access tape."
Clinton claimed WikiLeaks' actions were motivated by Assange's personal dislike of her.
"I had a lot of history with him because I was secretary of state when WikiLeaks published a lot of very sensitive information from our State Department and our Defence Department," she said.
"If he's such a martyr of free speech, why doesn't WikiLeaks ever publish anything coming out of Russia? You don't see damaging, negative information coming out about the Kremlin on Wikileaks," Clinton added.
Australian Assange, who has spent five years inside the Ecuador embassy in London to avoid extradition to Sweden on sexual assault charges, has denied Russia was the source behind the leaked documents.
Hildebeast is a despicable piece of pond scum.
Will this evil hag ever just STFU?
Calling her a broken record would be an epic understatement.
Nothing (at least what anyone would be willing to do) is going to get this woman to shut up.
A truly evil woman. Or, as someone put it: “nasty.”
I think she is scared to death and trying to get out ahead of whatever Julian Assange is about to release.
Have we ever seen a losing presidential candidate behave like this?
“I had a lot of history with him because I was secretary of state when WikiLeaks published a lot of very sensitive information from our State Department and our Defence Department,” she said.
“If he’s such a martyr of free speech, why doesn’t WikiLeaks ever publish anything coming out of Russia? You don’t see damaging, negative information coming out about the Kremlin on Wikileaks,” Clinton added.
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Because the Russians aren’t so stupid as to use ‘password’ as their password?
Bs...Podesta emails were released Nov 9... not “hours” aftdr the Oct tape release.
Plus Trump wasn't ablt to bomb any aspirin factories to deflect attention away.
The whole article is BS. It reads more like a DNC press release.
Yeah, those leaked emails detailing criminal activity amongst Hillary’s inner circle and election team was the no-there-there distraction that bumped the real scandal of Trump making harmless locker room talk off the front pages. Hillary is completely off her noodle.
Her deluding overactive self esteem gave her a hyperactive fixation of entitlement and is now pushing on into a full blown mental illness. She is becoming a threat to her klan’s financial and power structure.
They will have to make a decision about her soon. Sickness, accident or martyrdom whichever way will benefit the Foundation the most.
By 9 November, the emails were moot. Trump was President-elect, and Democrat faces were famously long.
The Podesta leaking actually began on 7 October. It was, after all, a classic October Surprise.
Despicable sore loser.
No, ALL of this sexual stuff is diverting people from the big problems they don’t want to face.
The NFL kneeling-for-the-anthem brouhaha is another one. Lot of fun to despise the unpatriotic and agonizing to figure out whether to boycott when football is one of the things you live for.
Diversions diversions diversions.
Couch casting has been going on for as long as I can remember. Why suddenly now? If not for diversion?
The people who are trying to divide us as a nation are deliriously happy about the kneeling problem.
Get a grip, people. We are under attack from within and without and have huge problems.
Assange had announced for weeks he was releasing his emails that Friday. Hillary moved the access tape up from monday to friday. So she was the one trying to deflect.
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