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16 Jan, 5 tweets, 2 min read
"Let Assange rot in prison. He helped Trump win!"

Yeah so did tens of millions of other people. Should they all be facing 175-year prison sentences? Or just all the campaign organizers and staff? Should everyone from a different political party rot in prison? Why only Assange?
People in my mentions currently.
This is the sort of shit my mentions are lighting up with right now. Even if these smears were true (and they aren't), are you really so depraved that you support locking someone in prison for having bad personal hygiene? Or are you just not thinking?
These comments are getting crazier and crazier.
That's a fair criticism; I don't mean Assange deliberately boosted Trump (the Democrats did that). I just meant the leaks hurt the Clinton campaign. Assange compared Clinton and Trump to choosing between cholera and gonorrhea.

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