• calliope@retrolemmy.com
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    1 day ago

    After he helped Trump win the U.S. election in 2016, it was extremely hard to take him seriously.

    “Hillary lacks judgment and will push the United States into endless, stupid wars which spread terrorism … she certainly should not become president of the United States.”

    There’s more on Wikipedia, but I think it’s foolish to believe he has ever cared about anyone but himself.

    Assange had timed the release to coincide with the 2016 Democratic National Convention because he believed Clinton had pushed for his indictment and he regarded her as a “liberal war hawk”

    I’m don’t think a Trump presidency was inevitable without Julian Assange. He was the useful idiot.

    • therealdries@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      9 hours ago

      he regarded her as a “liberal war hawk”

      Okay… but where’s the lie?

      This is a lie…

      Hillary lacks judgment

      Hillary is an apprentice of one of the US’s most heinous war criminals, Henry Kissinger - unlike Trump, she’s a thoroughly trained imperialist. She has plenty of judgement - and that made her far more dangerous to the world than Trump.