Arrest of Julian Assange and the Trump Narrative


Many conservatives have celebrated Wikileaks founder Julian Assange for exposing Hillary Clinton’s emails in 2016. And President Donald Trump declared his “love” for Assange’s website during the 2016 election for revealing damning correspondence from Clinton’s campaign and the Democratic National Committee, which certainly helped him get elected.

“I love WikiLeaks,” Trump lauded several times during the presidential campaign. “This WikiLeaks is like a treasure trove.”

After winning the presidency Trump changed his tune and sought to place some distance between himself and Assange.

Just a few months into Trump’s presidency, former attorney general Jeff Sessions said it would be a “priority” to stop leaks and arrest the Wikileaks founder. This was followed by more anti-Assange movement:

CNN reported in April 2017 that the U.S. was preparing charges to arrest Assange and that then-CIA Director Mike Pompeo characterized WikiLeaks as “a non-state hostile intelligence service often abetted by state actors like Russia.”

Assange’s efforts in the 2016 campaign present challenges for several people in Trump’s orbit. Mueller’s prosecutors and his grand jury have summoned about a dozen associates of longtime Trump adviser Roger Stone to Washington to explain how the self-proclaimed dirty trickster came to know about the pending WikiLeaks release of emails embarrassing to the Clinton campaign.

Although Obama indicated that he was not favorable to Assange, he indicated he would do nothing about the whistleblower.

While the Obama White House publicly described Assange as an “accomplice” in Manning’s theft of classified information, Obama officials concluded that it would be difficult to charge him given the implications for more traditional journalists.

Several former federal prosecutors said Assange could be a gold mine of information for Mueller if U.S. officials were able to extradite him from the Ecuador Embassy and ultimately flip him into a government witness.

So, President Trump was ‘for’ Assange before he was ‘against’ him. Obama certainly had no love for Assange, but didn’t take any action. What gives?

The answer could very well lay in the fact that Assange is indeed ‘a gold mine of information’ – and not information that the Deep State would want brought into the light.

Some claim that President Trump is trying to squash First Amendment by prosecuting Assange, while some conspiracy theorists claim that Trump is now part of the Deep State, hence his change of tune.

However, if President Trump’s intention is to checkmate the Deep State, he is playing it well by charging Assange and having him extradited to the U.S. to testify in court. This would be followed by a pardon, of course.

The WikiLeaks founder kept popping up around the edges of the Mueller probe and one can only imagine the damning information and testimony he could provide.

President Trump already has evidence of the attempted coup against his administration by Mueller, his minions and his handlers – Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton – and every swamp creature within their sphere. With Julian Assange, considered heroic the world over, providing testimony that fills in the holes and calls out the bad actors for all to see, Trump would have check and mate of the Deep State that he has been, according to Infowars, ‘working on most of his life.’

Let’s hope that the hero lives long enough to provide that testimony.



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