2016. Donald Trump repeatedly praised Wikileaks, saying, "I love Wikileaks." That was during the campaign when Wikileaks was publishing unfavorable bits about Hillary Clinton from the hacking of DNC computers. He mentioned it at least 145 times during the final month of the 2016 presidential campaign and had a poster of Assange hanging in his debate prep room (reported in the Washington Post from an Associated Press source).
April 11, 2019. Julian Assange, in charge of Wikileaks, was arrested in London and forcibly removed from the Ecuardor embassy where he has lived in exile for nearly seven years. This move came after a British judge found Assange guilty of breaching conditions in an old case in which Assange had been charged with rape in Sweden. The U.S. is also seeking extradition of Assange to answer charges for participating in leaking U.S. military secrets in 2010.
Hours later. Trump claims not to know anything about Wikileaks. "It's not my thing," he said.
Ralph
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