Hillary Clinton Celebrates Arrest of Julian Assange

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Hillary Clinton is delighted over the arrest of Wikileaks founder Julian Asssange

Hillary Clinton celebrated the arrest of Julian Assange on Thursday, saying that WikiLeaks founder needs to “answer for what he has done.”

The 2016 presidential loser weighed in on Assange while at a speaking event with her husband Bill Clinton.

Time.com reports: Assange was arrested earlier Thursday at the Ecuadorian Embassy in London, and the U.S. has charged him with conspiring with former Army intelligence analyst Chelsea Manning to break into a classified government computer at the Pentagon.

WikiLeaks’ publication of Democratic emails stolen by Russian intelligence officers during the 2016 election season hurt Clinton’s presidential campaign. Donald Trump, Clinton’s Republican opponent, frequently showered praise on Assange during the final weeks of the campaign and cheered on the release of damaging emails from Clinton’s campaign manager, John Podesta.

Assange was arrested after Ecuador revoked the political asylum that had kept him holed up at the embassy for nearly seven years. The U.S. is seeking Assange’s extradition.

Clinton said Thursday, “The bottom line is that he has to answer for what he has done, at least as it has been charged.”

In a tongue-in-cheek nod to Trump’s hard-line immigration stance, Clinton added, “I do think it’s a little ironic that he’s the only foreigner this administration would welcome to the United States.”

5 Comments

  1. You must have got your info from Dmitri Alperovich at Crowdstrike. Bill Binney totally disproved this fake news through forensic study of transfer rates. The DNC was NOT hacked. Someone with access downloaded the files probably to a thumb drive, which was then sent to Wikileaks. Several people have paid with their lives for this activity.

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