Monday, April 24, 2017

Ron Paul: Candidate Trump: ‘I Love Wikileaks.’ President Trump: ‘Arrest Assange!’

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“I love Wikileaks,” candidate Donald Trump said on October 10th on the campaign trail. He praised the organization for reporting on the darker side of the Hillary Clinton campaign. It was information likely leaked by a whistleblower from within the Clinton campaign to Wikileaks.

Back then he praised Wikileaks for promoting transparency, but candidate Trump looks less like President Trump every day. The candidate praised whistleblowers and Wikileaks often on the campaign trail. In fact, candidate Trump loved Wikileaks so much he mentioned the organization more than 140 times in the final month of the campaign alone! Now, as President, it seems Trump wants Wikileaks founder Julian Assange sent to prison.
Last week CNN reported, citing anonymous “intelligence community” sources, that the Trump Administration’s Justice Department was seeking the arrest of Assange and had found a way to charge the Wikileaks founder for publishing classified information without charging other media outlets such as the New York Times and Washington Post for publishing the same information.

It might have been tempting to write off the CNN report as “fake news,” as is much of their reporting, but for the fact President Trump said in an interview on Friday that issuing an arrest warrant for Julian Assange would be, “OK with me.”

4 comments:

  1. Trump is also backing down on the Wall - putting it off till
    the fall and then another excuse and on and on it goes.
    Tax breaks for corporations. I told you we should over-
    throw the corporations.

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  2. Corporate Trump. Every US taxpayer subsidizes Wallmart, Exxon-Mobil, and most big business in a big way. The best business plan today for Big Business is to pass on most of the costs involved of doing business to the taxpayer, while keeping the profit part for themselves. This is being done, in one manner or another in most areas of the economy. The people just aren't aware of it. They only see the things that are designed to distract them.
    Corporations ( its ) already get a tax break the way I see
    it and should be paying more.

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    1. The best business plan today for Big Business is to pass on most of the costs involved of doing business to the taxpayer, while keeping the profit part for themselves.

      What a deal.

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