WikiLeaks: Trump 'Should be Celebrated' For His Honesty in Fox News Interview

[DonViejo]

Source: Mediaite


by Ken Meyer | 1:12 pm, February 6th, 2017

According to Wikileaks, President Trump ought to be praised for his statement this weekend about how America’s “got a lot of killers,” and shouldn’t act like its so innocent compared to Russia.

During a conversation with Bill O’Reilly this weekend, Trump shrugged off the Fox host’s remark about how Russian President Vladimir Putin is a “killer.” Trump’s exact response was “There are a lot of killers. We’ve got a lot of killers. What, do you think our country’s so innocent?” While Trump’s remarks have drawn bipartisan condemnation, WikiLeaks agrees with Trump and says his remarks “should be celebrated”:

WikiLeaks ✔
@wikileaks

Whatever his other policies, Trump's honesty here, as documented by WikiLeaks for years, should be celebrated pic.twitter.com/B0sErCawGu

8:34 AM - 6 Feb 2017
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Both before and after the 2016 election, Trump has praised the transparency organization for releasing hacked, problematic messages that were lifted from the Democratic National Committee and John Podesta‘s email account. Trump and WikiLeaks seemed in lockstep with each others’ messaging in previous months when it came to subjects like intelligence leaks and Russia’s cyberactivities.

WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has insisted that Russian state actors did not supply him with the information that his organization published. This assertion conflicts with numerous intelligences agencies who have concluded that Putin ordered an active campaign to influence the election to Trump’s benefit.

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[dalton99a]

1. There is no connection between WikiLeaks and Putin.

[charlyvi]

2. By their behavior during the election

and their glorification of a misogynistic authoritarian egomaniac (Assange as well as Trump), Wikileaks has lost any iota of credibility they ever had with me. I'm still waiting on those RNC leaks and their leader to man up and face his rape charges.

[MBS]

10. Agree.

They lost me a while ago, for the reasons you've stated.

[ck4829]

3. We should hear it from him, can Trump put up or shut up? Who are these killers?

[WhiteTara]

4. Hey Rapist Assange. Go to JAIL!

You are a disgrace to humanity and are hiding behind the walls of an embassy to escape the women you raped.

[nycbos]

6. I remember when...

... if you called him a rapist here you were called a surveillance apologist.

[charlyvi]

13. I never defended Assange

But I did defend Wikileaks. That was when they cared more about truth than power. From what I can gather, the original group that worked on it are long gone and have been replaced by Assange acolytes. And Assange is a nasty bit of work.

[nycbos]

14. I wasn't referring to you.

Sorry if that wasn't clear.

But there were those here who attacked his accuser.

[charlyvi]

16. You know, I wondered if you would take my post

as my being defensive because I took it personally. I honestly didn't, so I owe you an apology for not being clear. I just meant to get the idea across that I am one of those who distinguished between Assange and Wikileaks. Not any more.

[nycbos]

17. Sometimes it is easy to misunderstand what someone meant in a comment section.

[Jake Stern]

15. Back then many were buffaloed by Assange and Wikileaks

He started out exposing war crimes in Iraq and Afghanistan and other shenanigans of the government. However it became much darker and more personal after Obama came into office. He was no longer someone who brought government malfeasance to light but now seemed to be going after Obama and Clinton like a man possessed in a way he never targeted Bush and company.

That's when I walked away from Wikileaks.

[Cicada]

5. Trump WAS honest

Trump is a monster but it IS true that we murder left and right also.

We bombed the Al Jazeera office in Baghdad, for instance. Putin kills journalists but we target some reporters also.

So I guess I agree with Trump on this one.

[frazzled]

7. Can we just say this once more?

When Bill O'Reilly (bless his loofah-shaped soul) said that Putin was a killer, he wasn't speaking about the normal range of political activities such as war or similar government-led actions across history. Yes, there's a whole lot of killing all around there. He was talking about a killer: someone who has journalists and political opponents—people who have committed no crime aside from speaking or writing—murdered. With poison-tipped umbrellas and radioactive soup. To my knowledge, there has never been much of this going on on the part of American leaders (conspiracy theories and J. Edgar Hoover aside).

[JHan]

8. ++++

[cstanleytech]

9. Exactly, the US isnt in the habit of poisoning people like Alexander Litvinenko.

Yes, if you are planning to carry out attacks on US citizens and or advocate and help others carry them out the US is might target you but if your just writing articles and news or even exposing shit the government has done like Manning or Snowden the US isnt likely to send someone in to poison you with polonium-210.

[Hekate]

18. THIS

[C Moon]

11. Say, what happened to Trump's taxes, Wikileaks? Why don't you pick on the rich?...useless asses!

[Cryptoad]

12. Glad to see all the Comrades over at WikiLeaks showing their spots

[Hekate]

19. Oooo, it's LeakyLeaks again, just dripping with journalistic ethics. STFU, Assange.

[NickB79]

20. Show me a guy the US poisoned with polonium

Then we can talk moral equivalences, fuckers.

[truthisfreedom]

21. We're celebrating his honesty with some honesty of our own, and trump should be celebrating that!

[LiberalLovinLug]

22. Assange is correct of course

Even Trump and a stopped clock can be right at rare times. He maintains that the Iraq war was a bad mistake as well. Yes more so that he could attack Hillary and her vote but it doesn't mean he is not wrong. Directly but for sure indirectly over the last century the US is guilty of many killings. Allende comes to mind.
And indirectly many many journalists, union organizers, students, priests, nuns, social activists....have been murdered by financially supported dictators and their security forces trained by and paid for by the good ole US of A. And that training is still going on in the School of the Americas on US soil.

That said, I too have lost respect for the man. And its too bad but he has no credibility with me or many others now after his one-sided leak-attack on Democrats only. If it were anybody else I'd say he had balls to agree publicly like that. His saying this kind of truth actually diminishes its value because it causes a backlash against the truth of the statement from the right AND the left as seen on many posts in this thread. And it further delays any admission or contrition of the crippling damage done to democracy and civil rights in other countries by US governments over the decades.