Julian Assange Exposed: Thought He Was Messaging Sean Hannity When He Offered ‘News’ on Democrat Investigating Trump-Russia
Dear diary: Today we learned that Wikileaks head honcho Julian Assange is sneaking around behind the scenes, trying to aid the GOP effort to shield Donald Trump by working with Fox News propagandist Sean Hannity. What a day!
At about 4 a.m. on Saturday morning, a couple hours after she started pretending to be Sean Hannity, Dell Gilliam says she got a direct message back from the head of WikiLeaks, Julian Assange. That’s when she said she “kind of panicked.”
“I felt bad. He really thought he was talking to Sean Hannity,” said Gilliam.
Gilliam, a technical writer from Texas, was bored with the flu when she created @SeanHannity__ early Saturday morning. The Fox News real account was temporarily deleted after cryptically tweeting the phrase “Form Submission 1649 | #Hannity” on Friday night. Twitter said the account had been “briefly compromised,” according to a statement provided to The Daily Beast, and was back up on Sunday morning.
When Gilliam made the account, she did not expect to be setting up a meeting over “other channels” for Assange to send “some news about Warner,” an apparent reference to Sen. Mark Warner, the top Democrat on the Senate intelligence committee investigating Russian interference in the 2016 election.
Sean Hannity spews a bunch of BS in response to this bombshell report:
The epitome of #FakeNews. Literally a fake account, a fake persona, and this is what the destroy Trump media writes about? MEDIA IS MISSING THE BIGGEST STORY IN THE POLITICAL WORLD. Truth and facts tonight on Hannity 9 est Foxnews. Tick tock!! https://t.co/6APtqvn5MV
— Sean Hannity (@seanhannity) January 30, 2018