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…
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…
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…
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].”
“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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