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Julian Assange had as much to do with exposing Hillary's corruption as anybody.

Trump says it's OK with him if Assange is arrested.

http://www.unz.com/rpaul/candidate-trump-i-love-wikileaks-president-trump-arrest-assange/

excerpt:

“I love Wikileaks,” candidate Donald Trump said on October 10th on the campaign trail. He praised the organization for reporting on the darker side of the Hillary Clinton campaign. It was information likely leaked by a whistleblower from within the Clinton campaign to Wikileaks.

Back then he praised Wikileaks for promoting transparency, but candidate Trump looks less like President Trump every day. The candidate praised whistleblowers and Wikileaks often on the campaign trail. In fact, candidate Trump loved Wikileaks so much he mentioned the organization more than 140 times in the final month of the campaign alone! Now, as President, it seems Trump wants Wikileaks founder Julian Assange sent to prison

Last week CNN reported, citing anonymous “intelligence community” sources, that the Trump Administration’s Justice Department was seeking the arrest of Assange and had found a way to charge the Wikileaks founder for publishing classified information without charging other media outlets such as the New York Times and Washington Post for publishing the same information.

It might have been tempting to write off the CNN report as “fake news,” as is much of their reporting, but for the fact President Trump said in an interview on Friday that issuing an arrest warrant for Julian Assange would be, “OK with me.”

This is like biting the hand that fed you.

It's a major head shaker. That's for sure.

I wonder what Trump will have to say to Assange as he gets frog marched into Federal court?

"You knew I was a snake the day you took me in."

Nuts. Assange should be added to Mount Rushmore. He exposed tyranny on the part of the US government.

Works for me, and summarily executed along with Sniwden

Once again,....you and Hillary,...2 peas in a pod.

Trump said all that before Assange released the CIA secrets. It turns it into a national security issue.

You don't keep dogs that bite their masters.

So that's the narrative they're going to use, eh?

What else is Trump supposed to say publicly about Assange?

"Thanks for publishing all the TS information over the years?"

What's the matter B isn't Trump who you thought?

He should say, "You're hired".,...... then give him a position in his administration.

Trump says that he's all about "draining the swamp".

Assange has been working on doing that for many years.

It would seem Assange is no more use to Trump.

No,...but Cruz is.

I do believe so, he embarrassed th CIA, NSA, And FBI when he did this. I don't think they would bother with him if he hadn't done so.

Government officials are our servants, not our masters.

They embarrassed themselves,...and they continue to.

Exactly.

The guy is simply a publisher. They should really be after those that originally leaked the material.

Still I'm becoming more comfortable with knowing some of the underhanded tactics our officials employ. Seems if an organization has the ability, they will exploit it.