Back during the US presidential campaign in 2016, he expressed his approval of Assange’s Wikileaks several times, on one occasion even gushing: “I love Wikileaks”. And why wouldn’t he? That website contributed significantly to Trump’s victory when it dumped thousands of Hillary Clinton’s and other Democrat emails onto the web for public scrutiny.
Yet when he was asked yesterday about the hapless Ozzie, cut loose by a new Ecuadorian president tired of him after 7 years of hassle, Trump affected to know nothing about him. Either this was a telling example of Trump’s burgeoning dementia, or he was throwing the guy who helped him become president under the bus with all the decisive cynicism of a Mafia boss.
I’m not a big fan of Julian Assange. I’ve always had the feeling he’s a bit too fond of himself, and his work during 2016 seriously damaged the chances of the only person who could beat Trump to the White House. And the whole world, never mind America, has been picking up the pieces ever since. I don’t think there’s much to the sexual assault charges against him in Sweden, from what I heard, though I doubt if he’s the most courteous lover on the planet (he had already made love to a woman and they were sleeping together when he attempted to do it again - while she was asleep). Hardly the most serious crime in the sexual assault spectrum, but not exactly exemplary behaviour either.
But we shouldn’t extradite him to the US. They’re salivating over the idea of putting him in a supermax prison for a very long time, after they’ve dreamed up some really good charges against him. Whatever he is, or isn’t, he doesn’t deserve that.
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