EXCLUSIVE: Defector: WikiLeaks "will lie to your face." From @kpoulsen: thebea.st/2rrtQRV
Last February, leaked messages from a private WikiLeaks chat group offered an unfiltered glimpse of Julian Assange, complete with misogyny, anti-Semitism, and a clear, early preference for a GOP election victory thebea.st/2rrtQRV
Now the U.K. man who leaked those messages is stepping forward to explain why he turned on the secret-spilling group, which he argues has abandoned its truth-telling mission altogether thebea.st/2rrtQRV
“... These people are really quite fanatical, and not in a good way,” said Iain, who joined a small circle of key WikiLeaks backers in '13. “They will lie to your face, they will lie on Twitter… The pressure is being piled on, the lies are being piled on” thebea.st/2rrtQRV
Iain said he felt compelled to leak the messages after the revelation that Assange held friendly, supportive online conversations with Donald Trump Jr. during the election thebea.st/2rrtQRV
“What happened in 2016 was just so shocking to me. I was just trying to figure out, What was that? Where did it come from? And so I started looking back.” thebea.st/2rrtQRV
