Trump’s Reliance on WikiLeaks Discredits His Case Against Clinton
This charge would be more credible if it weren’t coming from a man who tells his supporters that evidence of Clinton’s criminality can be found in e-mails published by WikiLeaks, an organization whose unofficial motto is “We steal secrets.”
The U.S. intelligence community has assessed that the e-mails of leading Democrats being released by WikiLeaks were stolen by hackers working for the Kremlin. As Clinton herself said, “The Russian government has engaged in espionage against Americans.”
For WikiLeaks this is not surprising. While it started out targeting all state secrets without preference, today the group is objectively in the pro-Russian camp. Julian Assange himself, the leader of WikiLeaks, has parroted the Russian line in recent years on issues like Ukraine and Syria. He briefly hosted a talk show distributed by the Russian state network, RT. A New York Times investigation published at the end of August concluded: “Whether by conviction, convenience or coincidence, WikiLeaks’ document releases, along with many of Mr. Assange’s statements, have often benefited Russia, at the expense of the West.”
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