My latest: Media Silence on #Assange Aids #Trump

Testimony given in the last week of the Assange hearing was particularly damning for the White House, as evidence was aired that connected the Administration directly to the efforts to prosecute Assange.

consortiumnews.com/2020/10/31/ele…
During the hearing, journalist Cassandra Fairbanks testified that, “President Donald Trump had personally ordered Julian Assange’s arrest from the Ecuadorian embassy."

consortiumnews.com/2020/09/21/ass…
Jennifer Robinson (@suigenerisjen) a lawyer for Assange, also testified that Trump indirectly offered Assange a pardon in August 2017 if the journalist would reveal the source of WikiLeaks’ 2016 DNC and Podesta email publications to disprove #Russiagate.

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Assange stuck to the principle of refusing to reveal his sources, which apparently induced Trump’s ire, ostensibly contributing to his April 2019 order to have Assange arrested.
The hearing also included testimony from UC Global employees who testified that David Morales, CEO of the company, was paid by a U.S. intelligence agency to illegally spy on Assange in the Ecuadorian Embassy in London during the Trump administration.
Morales was said to have spied at the behest of an “American intelligence agency,” most likely the CIA, with funds channeled through a company owned by casino magnate Sheldon Adelson, Trump’s largest mega-donor.

thegrayzone.com/2020/05/14/ame…
As @DanielEllsberg explained on #CNLive! regarding the testimony of UC Global employees:

“These are sensational revelations, if traced to the oval office... this is very clearly a high crime and misdemeanor, an impeachable [offense].”

Ellsberg, whom the U.S. government unsuccessfully prosecuted under the Espionage Act, likened the perpetrators of an attempted break-in at his psychiatrist’s office (which led to a mistrial) w/theUC Global employees who testified to the security firm’s illegal spying on Assange.
All of these revelations should have been fuel for the anti-Trump media. Instead the extradition proceedings have been met with virtual silence. It seems there are two major areas where the mainstream press doesn’t push back on Trump: war, and Assange.
Again: Unlike #Russianhacking or #TrumpRussiaCollusion, there is a legitimate and serious scandal when it comes to Trump's involvement in the #Assange prosecution. The fact that the media hasn't covered it is a travesty multiple times over.
It's an utter abandonment of the free press by the same media that claimed Trump was attacking them.
It's a refusal to go after their supposed nemesis where it would actually hurt him - this could be a scandal equal to or greater than the one that ended the trial of Daniel Ellsberg, the Pentagon Papers whistleblower whose case ended in a mistrial, according to Ellsberg himself.
Worst of all, it's the refusal to reconcile the false narrative peddled for four years that Assange helped Trump, which is belied this very moment by Trump's prosecution of him.

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1 Nov
Unlike #Russianhacking or #TrumpRussiaCollusion, there is a legitimate and serious scandal when it comes to Trump's involvement in the #Assange prosecution. The fact that the media hasn't covered it is a travesty multiple times over.
It's an utter abandonment of the free press by the same media that claimed Trump was attacking them.
It's a refusal to go after their supposed nemesis where it would actually hurt him - this could be a scandal equal to or greater than the one that ended the trial of Daniel Ellsberg, the Pentagon Papers whistleblower whose case ended in a mistrial, according to Ellsberg himself.
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15 Oct
Said it once, and I'll say it again: #StreisandEffect trending on Twitter is the highlight of this election season.

archive.vn/qYQMI
And if people start getting suspended for sharing the information relevant to this story I will be totally unsurprised.

In general, social media censorship has been ramped up for weeks, especially noticeable during the #Assange extradition hearing.
First the corporate hack-media refused to cover the #Assange story, which would have been their best legitimate shot of hitting Trump effectively for jailing a legit journalist. The same journalist that the legacy media idiocracy blamed for "installing" #Trump to begin with.
Read 6 tweets
17 Jun
Two new documentaries on the Jeffery #Epstein affair delve into lurid details and give voice to his victims, but both scratch the surface of the political and intelligence dimensions of the scandal.

consortiumnews.com/2020/06/17/eps…
Investigation Discovery premiered a three-hour special, “#WhoKilledJeffreyEpstein?” on May 31, the first segment in a three-part series, that focused on Epstein’s August 2019 death in federal custody. The special followed @netflix release of "#JeffreyEpsteinfilthyrich."
Neither documentary however deals at all with Epstein’s suspected ties to the world of intelligence.
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3 Apr
#DNCFraudLawsuit Plaintiffs Petition Supreme Court

"As the Becks note, the documented election interference forming the basis of the DNC Fraud Lawsuit has seen no investigation or prosecution, with their suit standing as the single exception."

consortiumnews.com/2020/04/02/dnc…
"The party’s own defense counsel indicate that the DNC sees the democratic process in its nomination procedure as meaningless, with the real decisions determined by party insiders."
"Establishment media has hardly held them to account. DNC cheerleaders in the corporate press have not only ignored the fraud perpetrated by the @DNC in 2016, but some have argued that “Too Much Democracy is Bad for Democracy.”

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21 Jan
Consortium News Sends Libel Notices to Canadian Signals Intelligence Agency and Major Television Network

consortiumnews.com/2020/01/21/con…
"The Feb '17 @Consortiumnews article, by Arina Tuskanova exclusively for CN, was titled “A Nazi Skeleton in the Family Closet.” It reveals that Freeland lied about her grandfather’s past as an editor of a Nazi newspaper in occupied Poland during the war. "
consortiumnews.com/2017/02/27/a-n…
@Consortiumnews Robert Parry, founder of Consortium News wrote regarding the reaction to Tuskanova's piece:

"Instead of fessing up and acknowledging these facts, Freeland chose to dissemble and slander journalists who were doing their job."
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6 Nov 19
Plutocrats:

"Democracy is the enemy of democracy.

If you disagree with us, you are a Russian asset, a bot network or a GRU hacker."
Is this a joke?
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