[krapp]

Julian Assange has stated publicly that he has a vendetta against Clinton because of her attempts to prosecute Wikileaks while Secretary of State[0], and that he intends to destroy her campaign.

>Are they in-directly supporting Trump ?

Yes. I doubt that Wikileaks, Trump and Russia are actively conspiring towards Trump's election, it just happens that the goals of the Republican Party, Russia and Julian Assange all happen to neatly correlate - Trump wants to be elected, Russia would rather Trump than Clinton was elected, and Assange wants Clinton to not get elected.

All that requires is from Wikileaks is a willingness to publish anything that even appears damaging to one party and nothing damaging to the other. Luckily for Trump, anything published by Wikileaks appears damaging by default, because people assume a level of impartiality and due diligence on their part that they may not really be engaged in.

The fact alone that there are leaks related to the Democrats and not the Republicans will lead people to assume that the Democrats are more corrupt, and the Republicans more trustworthy.

[0]https://theintercept.com/2016/08/06/accusing-wikileaks-bias-...

[rubberstamp]

But Clinton has more power over media than Trump and I have seen more positive bias in media towards Clinton than towards Trump. The media is creating more noise and publishing their opinions rather than doing good old journalism of bringing news to public without their personal bias. Well, I thought Trump was racist and didn't like him at all. But then I looked into what Clinton has done, Trump looks like better option than Clinton on ethical grounds of who is cleaner politician. Clinton was in power, and what did she do with that power. I think she has been in power long enough and that Trump should be given a chance. My personal reason for not liking Clinton is that video about "we came, we won" comment about Gadaffi getting killed, Clinton getting protected eventhough there is evidence that she carelessly handled confidential email, but since she has power she got away. Why should she be treated different than any govt employee that mishandles confidential info? And the thing about those giving donations to Clinton foundation getting more meetings with her while she was secretary of state than others who didn't get that preferential treatment from her. I think Trump has more integrity than Clinton.

[vlozko]

While you're right on with Trumps close ties with Russia, it's not accurate to say that the Republican party is. In fact, senators like McCain and others have long pushed for arming Ukraine to combat the Russian incursion and there was bipartisan support to sanction Russia over Crimea. It's really just Trump.

[krapp]

Trump is now the standard bearer for the Republicans, and the party's de facto leader. If he's elected, the Republicans are going to have to learn to at least pretend to share his views or else be divided against themselves.