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DonViejo

(60,536 posts)
Mon Oct 16, 2017, 08:32 AM Oct 2017

Hillary Clinton Slams Julian Assange as a 'Nihilistic Opportunist' Who 'Does The Bidding of...

Hillary Clinton Slams Julian Assange as a ‘Nihilistic Opportunist’ Who ‘Does The Bidding of a Dictator’

by Aidan McLaughlin | 8:16 am, October 16th, 2017

Hillary Clinton knocked Julian Assange in an interview on Australian television that aired Sunday night, accusing the Wikileaks founder of doing “the bidding of a dictator.”

In an appearance of Australia’s news program Four Corners, the 2016 presidential candidate said of the Wikileaks founder: “I think Julian Assange was become a kind of nihilistic opportunist who does the bidding of a dictator.”

Interviewer Sarah Ferguson said that many see Assange as a martyr of free speech and freedom of information for his leaks, but Clinton contended that the Swede is “a tool of Russian intelligence.”

“And if he’s such a, you know, martyr of free speech, why doesn’t WikiLeaks ever publish anything coming out of Russia?” she added.

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Hillary Clinton Slams Julian Assange as a 'Nihilistic Opportunist' Who 'Does The Bidding of... (Original Post) DonViejo Oct 2017 OP
Exactly. Take that you nitwit Pamela sue Anderson. Knr joeybee12 Oct 2017 #1
Perfect description dalton99a Oct 2017 #2
She's Too Kind Loyd Oct 2017 #3
Assange is just a troll. DetlefK Oct 2017 #4
Julian Assange is nobody's friend. Initech Oct 2017 #5
A "martyr"?!? Oh, please...! Fritz Walter Oct 2017 #6
And a chickenshit rapist ismnotwasm Oct 2017 #7
Hillary has become a lot more... well, ballsy, since the election. liberalnarb Oct 2017 #8
Hillary is always at her best PatSeg Oct 2017 #9
She's fighting back and I love it. brush Oct 2017 #12
Hillary is right on this orangecrush Oct 2017 #10
he's putins little punk elmac Oct 2017 #11
K&R Scurrilous Oct 2017 #13
Go Hil! Me. Oct 2017 #14
Sing it! yardwork Oct 2017 #15
Assange should name himself Asshole. He is a an asshole for hire. Le Gaucher Oct 2017 #16

DetlefK

(16,423 posts)
4. Assange is just a troll.
Mon Oct 16, 2017, 09:05 AM
Oct 2017

His attempt to make the world a better place is by trolling the people he sees as his enemies.

You don't see him writing about Trump or Venezuela or Russia or the Middle-East or the entirety of Africa or China or North Korea. No, the only thing he cares about is trolling HRC.

Venezuela's constitutional assembly essentially declaring itself the new legislative? That's no story?

The ongoing corruption-investigation surrounding the suspects of the Magnitsky-affair? That's no story?

Russia establishing a commission to find out whether there really are death-camps for gays in Chechnya... And that commission somehow has disappeared from public view? That's no story?

Saudi-Arabia stealing land in Africa by way of bribery and mercenaries? That's no story?

China kidnapping and disappearing booksellers who sell a tell-all book how chinese President Xi Jinping is a corrupt criminal? That's no story?

Fritz Walter

(4,291 posts)
6. A "martyr"?!? Oh, please...!
Mon Oct 16, 2017, 09:16 AM
Oct 2017

As I recall, real martyrs suffer and/or die for their beliefs. Real martyrs believe so strongly that their cause is just that they go willingly into the hands of their oppressors.

They do not hole up in a diplomatic basement trying to evade prosecution or persecution.

He's a fraud. Just like the Mangled-Apricot Hellbeast he directly helped grab control of our republic.

PatSeg

(47,494 posts)
9. Hillary is always at her best
Mon Oct 16, 2017, 10:02 AM
Oct 2017

when she is not running for office. Now she is not being manged by political advisers and can be herself.

brush

(53,784 posts)
12. She's fighting back and I love it.
Mon Oct 16, 2017, 10:59 AM
Oct 2017

She's had time to recoup and is not biting her tongue about Assange the Putin tool and how we elected a sexual abuser to the WH, and that's just in the last couple of days.

Also, a few weeks ago, sshe came down on Comey, the repug, partisan hack who swung the election to trump and them subsequently tried to redeem himself only to be fired by debacle he helped install in the WH.

Keep it up, Hillary. Take no prisoners,, take the scales off peoples' eyes and show how fight these bastards while emboldening people to agitate to get trump out.

orangecrush

(19,571 posts)
10. Hillary is right on this
Mon Oct 16, 2017, 10:10 AM
Oct 2017

The scales have fallen from my eyes, and now I see Assange as part of the big con job.

And it saddens me to say this.

I still believe in transparency.

But for Russia as well as the U.S., and that ain't what Assange stands for.

He stands for Putin and Eurasianism, hell bent on the destruction of liberal democracy.

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