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To: denizen48 who wrote (1455318)	5/7/2024 1:07:43 PM
From: Broken_Clock	1 Recommendation Recommended By longz Respond to of 1571976

WikkiLeaks was one of the originators of all this fake news and alter-reality and on and on. I'm sure you can document loads of "fake" wikileaks releases. We'll be waiting.

To: denizen48 who wrote (1455318)	5/7/2024 3:40:33 PM
From: maceng2	Respond to of 1571976

That is the first I heard that Wikileaks is tied to Trump. Here is the Wikipedia entry, I know you cannot trust everything they say, but as a first approximation the basic information looks OK. it goes back way before Trump entered the scene. Launched 2006. WikiLeaks - Wikipedia There is this... I can see your point on these developments. Overall I have no idea if WikiLeaks was closer to the USA security sources, or the GRU. They were able to get an ample supply of information from somewhere. 2016 U.S. presidential election See also: 2016 Democratic National Committee email leak, Podesta emails, and Russian interference in the 2016 United States elections Assange wrote on WikiLeaks in February 2016: "I have had years of experience in dealing with Hillary Clinton and have read thousands of her cables. Hillary lacks judgement and will push the United States into endless, stupid wars which spread terrorism. ... she certainly should not become president of the United States." [178] In a 2017 interview by Amy Goodman, Julian Assange said that choosing between Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump is like choosing between cholera or gonorrhea. "Personally, I would prefer neither." [179] WikiLeaks editor Sarah Harrison stated that the site was not choosing which damaging publications to release, rather releasing information available to them. [180] In conversations that were leaked in February 2018, Assange expressed a preference for a Republican victory in the 2016 election, saying that "Dems+Media+liberals would [sic] then form a block to reign [sic] in their worst qualities. With Hillary in charge, GOP will be pushing for her worst qualities, dems+media+neoliberals will be mute. She's a bright, well connected, sadistic sociopath". [181] Having released information about a broad range of organisations and politicians, WikiLeaks started by 2016 to focus almost exclusively on Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton. [182] In the 2016 U.S. presidential election, WikiLeaks only exposed material damaging to the Democratic National Committee and Hillary Clinton. According to The New York Times, WikiLeaks timed one of its large leaks so that it would happen on the eve of the Democratic Convention. [183] The Sunlight Foundation, an organisation that advocates for open government, said that such actions meant that WikiLeaks was no longer striving to be transparent but rather sought to achieve political goals. [184] Secret correspondence between WikiLeaks and Donald Trump Jr.In November 2017, it was revealed that the WikiLeaks Twitter account secretly corresponded with Donald Trump Jr. during the 2016 presidential election. [185] [186] The correspondence shows how WikiLeaks actively solicited the co-operation of Trump Jr., a campaign surrogate and advisor in the campaign of his father. WikiLeaks urged the Trump campaign to reject the results of the 2016 presidential election at a time when it looked as if the Trump campaign would lose. [185] WikiLeaks suggested the Trump campaign leak Trump's taxes to them. [185] [186] WikiLeaks asked Trump Jr. to share a WikiLeaks tweet with the made-up [187] quote "Can't we just drone this guy?" which True Pundit said Hillary Clinton made about Assange. [185] [188] WikiLeaks also shared a link to a site that would help people to search through WikiLeaks documents. [185] Trump Jr. shared both. After the election, WikiLeaks also requested that the president-elect push Australia to appoint Assange as ambassador to the US. Trump Jr. provided this correspondence to congressional investigators looking into Russian interference in the 2016 election. [185] Assange repeated his offer of being ambassador to the US after the messages became public, publicly tweeting to Donald Trump Jr. that "I could open a hotel style embassy in DC with luxury immunity suites for whistleblowers. The public will get a turbo-charged flow of intel about the latest CIA plots to undermine democracy. DM me". [189] [190] The secretive exchanges led to criticism of WikiLeaks by some former supporters. WikiLeaks tweeted that the Clinton campaign was "constantly slandering" it as "a 'pro-Trump' 'pro-Russia' source". Journalist Barrett Brown, a long-time defender of WikiLeaks, was exasperated that Assange was "complaining about 'slander' of being pro-Trump IN THE ACTUAL COURSE OF COLLABORATING WITH TRUMP". He also wrote: "Was "Wikileaks staff" lying on Nov 10, 2016, when they claimed, "The allegations that we have colluded with Trump, or any other candidate for that matter, or with Russia, are just groundless and false", or did Assange lie to them?" [191] Brown said Assange had acted "as a covert political operative", thus betraying WikiLeaks' focus on exposing "corporate and government wrongdoing". He considered the latter to be "an appropriate thing to do", but that "working with an authoritarian would-be leader to deceive the public is indefensible and disgusting". [191]