The testimony of Michael Cohen, former attorney and fixer for President Trump, is more bad news for Wikileaks founder Julian Assange. Cohen says Assange shared his plans to publish the Democratic National Committee emails with Roger Stone, political dirty trickster and confidante of Trump, before the document dump occurred. In his prepared testimony for the...
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Indictment Reveals How the Trump-Wikileaks Backchannel Worked
The indictment of Roger Stone, confidante of President Trump, has got Wikileaks worried. Julian Assange should be concerned too. The indictment, handed down by Special Prosecutor Robert Mueller and a Washington DC grand jury, makes Wikileaks look bad. In August 2016, the organization denied it had any “direct” connection to Stone, an answer that now...
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Draft Indictment Points to Julian Assange as an Agent of Collusion
Let’s reserve judgment on the Guardian’s intriguing but thinly sourced story that Trump’s campaign manager Paul Manafort met with Wikileaks founder Julian Assange. The role of the Ecuadorian intelligence service and spy agencies in the story is key but unclear. But all that is rather beside the point. The case that Assange was an agent in...