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I'd have a lot more sympathy for Assange if he hadn't collaborated with an authoritarian state to help get Trump elected, and in doing so ironically put the legitimacy of a free press in a much more imperiled position as a result of Trump's relentless 'fake news' assault, not to mention help engender the tragic separation of migrant children at the border, the undermining of civil liberties, the unravelling of environmental regulations, corrupt self-dealing of an unprecedented nature in public office, etc, etc. The hacking and leaking of the DNC emails was a disgrace. Assange has aided and abetted the unholy alliance of populists and corporate robber-barons in his one-sided meddling in 2016, driven, let us be clear, by his vain, personal vendetta against Clinton and not by a righteous freedom crusade. In doing so he has done more to further dismantle our woefully imperfect democratic system - and our dwindling freedoms - than to correcting and redeeming it.
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