IN LEAKED CHATS, WIKILEAKS DISCUSSES PREFERENCE FOR GOP OVER CLINTON, RUSSIA, TROLLING...
Source: The Intercept
ON A THURSDAY afternoon in November 2015, a light snow was falling outside the windows of the Ecuadorian embassy in London, despite the relatively warm weather, and Julian Assange was inside, sitting at his computer and pondering the upcoming 2016 presidential election in the United States.
In little more than a year, WikiLeaks would be engulfed in a scandal over how it came to publish internal emails that damaged Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign, and the extent to which it worked with Russian hackers or Donald Trump’s campaign to do so. But in the fall of 2015, Trump was polling at less than 30 percent among Republican voters, neck-and-neck with neurosurgeon Ben Carson, and Assange spoke freely about why WikiLeaks wanted Clinton and the Democrats to lose the election.
“We believe it would be much better for GOP to win,” he typed into a private Twitter direct message group to an assortment of WikiLeaks’ most loyal supporters on Twitter. “Dems+Media+liberals woudl then form a block to reign in their worst qualities,” he wrote. “With Hillary in charge, GOP will be pushing for her worst qualities., dems+media+neoliberals will be mute.” He paused for two minutes before adding, “She’s a bright, well connected, sadistic sociopath.”
Read more: https://theintercept.com/2018/02/14/julian-assange-wikileaks-election-clinton-trump/
By the way, here's Assange in 2016 lying about not having any preference:
"WikiLeaks Founder Julian Assange Says He Does Not Support Clinton Or Trump
Posted By Tim Hains
On Date July 25, 2016"
https://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2016/07/25/julian_assange_says_he_does_not_support_clinton_or_trump.html
No wonder Wikileaks didn't leak any Trump-related documents.
Wikileaks along with Russia was a SUPER-PAC for Trump.
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GaryCnf
(1,399 posts)This was true, seeing it in their own words is almost blood curdling.
OKNancy
(41,832 posts)Upstate One
(83 posts)Greenwald (who love Putin) is what keeps lots of people from reading the website.
SkyDaddy7
(6,045 posts)It has only been recently that Ive begun checking out what they’re reporting. But I can’t help wondering what I can trust coming from The Intercept knowing Greenwald is an editor & I know for a fact he has no problem at all spinning reality to fit the narrative he wants to tell, putting words in people’s mouths & outright lying especially if he disagrees with the person, persons or group he is reporting on...And most certainly if he doesn’t like them for whatever the reason!! Plus, his obvious disdain for the US, it’s military & Intel Agencies taken all together renders anything he has to say completely untrustworthy & suspect.
The reason I’ve begun paying cautious attention to The Intercept now is after all of Greenwald’s disgusting claims the Russians had absolutely nothing to do with anything that happened during the 2016 election The Intercept still published the documents leaked to them by Reality Winner that not only alerted the American public the Russians were far more involved in the 2016 election than our government had told us up to that point...It exposed Glenn Greenwald as the biased journalistic FRAUD he is!!!
SkyDaddy7
(6,045 posts)If you’re not new but just a low poster then 
procon
(15,805 posts)Wellstone ruled
(34,661 posts)their Severs are all Russian.
YessirAtsaFact
(2,113 posts)Wellstone ruled
(34,661 posts)
Botany
(77,323 posts)n/t
djacq
(1,778 posts)“A non-state hostile intelligence service often abetted by state actors like Russia”
Upthevibe
(10,180 posts)I'll bookmark...
still_one
(98,883 posts)yardwork
(69,364 posts)
joshcryer
(62,536 posts)Last edited Wed Feb 14, 2018, 06:08 PM - Edit history (1)
Go here to look at how atrocious they really are: https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/4378830-Excerpts-From-Private-WikiLeaks-Twitter-Group.html
JCanete
(5,272 posts)explaining the need for people to be able to self-identify as the gender they claim.
joshcryer
(62,536 posts)But I don't know for sure. The posts by "Wikileaks" are extremely patronizing and insulting, and it is of no surprise whatsoever to me that Manning was used by Assange and his cohorts.
JCanete
(5,272 posts)
BigmanPigman
(55,137 posts)about this...spot on and funny.
Cha
(319,067 posts)Was that Colbert as ass-ange?
lol.. 6 years in that cubby hole instead of facing the music.
Mahalo BP
Blue_Tires
(57,596 posts)Seeing Greenwald on twitter actively undercut and discredit ONE OF HIS OWN FUCKING REPORTERS, AGAIN(!) gives me the warm fuzzies all inside!
Cha
(319,067 posts)gjves the warm fuzzies! lol
Lithos
(26,638 posts)he has a strong image of himself with more importance than he has. His sexist and domineering attitudes towards women are based on his feelings of superiority. Truth is, he is the one easily controlled. His lies are easily shown as such. His type of uber-simplistic libertarian-anarchy is usually nothing more than a convenient tool easily controlled and manipulated by those who played up on his need for attention.
Blue_Tires
(57,596 posts)Let no DUer ever try defending these jaggoffs ever again, period... I don't CARE what good works they were pulling off a decade ago...
Link to tweet
joshcryer
(62,536 posts)The "collateral murder" video did not lead to any prosecutions at all (indeed, it led more to a discussion of rules of engagement and justifying death from above).
They have done nothing but whatever benefits themselves.
And it amuses me that anti-statists would be pro-Russian because of their "small economy."
That "small economy" has been slowly annexing countries and has the second* largest arsenal of nukes on the planet.
(* I know they claim more than the US but I suspect their program is under disrepair and is not real)
Cha
(319,067 posts)other day around here.
This OP is Bookmarked and Journaled.
unblock
(56,198 posts)
Cha
(319,067 posts)us that favor?!
TomVilmer
(1,964 posts)... there are around 14.000 documents about him at Wikileaks. Sorry - but arguments like that are easy to check. Please do that before posting, thanks!
mcar
(46,055 posts)And to think there were Assange fans here. 
Cha
(319,067 posts)too bad I didn't have this handy.
Well now it's Bookmarked and in my journal.
mcar
Blue_Tires
(57,596 posts)He's posting more dirt than I could ever hope to link to here
https://twitter.com/micahflee
calimary
(90,017 posts)Nothing surprising.
Why is that rat Assange still living under that embassy protection in London? Why don't they kick him out? Why haven't they kicked him out, already?
Scurrilous
(38,687 posts)
C_U_L8R
(49,384 posts)and Donny LOVES Wikileaks !!!
Cha
(319,067 posts)day standing up for this asshole.
Thank you for this, Upstate One.
Bookmarked and in the Journal.
Stardust1
(123 posts)Last edited Thu Feb 15, 2018, 01:25 PM - Edit history (2)
What a manipulative, bitter creep. Assange is an "ends justifies the means" type by the look of it. A jaded crook who thinks everyone is as morally bankrupt as he is.
This is pretty damning. It pretty much confirms he's been manipulating the puplic and co-ordinating cyber attacks.
Glad the truth is coming out, bit by bit.
EDIT: People are saying on the articles twitter that Assanges comments weren't sexist/racist. I'm very quickly losing my faith in humanity.