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Remember the US did not seek extradition for the 2013 leaks he coursed Chelsey manning into getting him, it wasn't until he conspired with Russia to interfere in the 2016 election that the US decided to seek extradition.
Page 44 of the Muller Report In order to expand its interference in the 2016 U.S. presidential election, the GRU units transferred many of the documents they stole from the DNC and the chairman of the Clinton Campaign to WikiLeaks. GRU officers used both the DCLeaks and Guccifer 2.0 personas to communicate with WikiLeaks through Twitter private messaging and through encrypted channels, including possibly through WikiLeaks’s private communication system.
https://www.cnn.com/2019/07/15/politics/assange-embassy-exclusive-documents/index.html Despite being confined to the embassy while seeking safe passage to Ecuador, Assange met with Russians and world-class hackers at critical moments, frequently for hours at a time. He also acquired powerful new computing and network hardware to facilitate data transfers just weeks before WikiLeaks received hacked materials from Russian operatives.
I don't like this journalist's source, let's fucking kill him
Let's see ~~NATO~~Wikipedia over here...
Idk man, seems pretty planned-out to me...
Right, I'm sure the US had nothing to do with the charges that Sweden was trying to file. I'm sure that Ecuador let him hide in the embassy since 2012 for no good reason
Your conspiracy falls apart when you look at Chelsea Manning, she was sentenced to 35 years, got the government to pay for her transition, her sentence was commuted after 7 years, and she went on to cuckole Elon Musk.
Assange raped two women, used his propaganda outlet to push conspiracy theories and hid in the only embassy that would take him. Later he was kicked out of the Ecuadorian embassy for using it to collude with Russia to influence the US election.
First of all, whataboutism and ad hominem (specifically about 'privilege'), second, 7 years is a lot, if you can compare it to Jeffery Epstein's sentence deal of 1.5 years (18 months)...
Honestly, outside of politics, Assange should've prbly been held for trial for that, in Sweden, NOT in America. Also, when did he decide to push conspiracy theories (I never heard him support Qanon)? And well, I kinda think the Russia collusion here is more of a post-hoc justification for the U.S to get him so...
Critique me if you want...