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by imron 3505 days ago
> the most damning ones..

It doesn't really seem so, or at least they seem no better or worse than what's been released already.

Trump supporters have been waiting months for the Wikileaks bombshell, October^H^H^H^H^H^H^H, errr.. November surprise, that will destroy Hillary and put her behind bars, implicating her in arms sales, pay for play access to the government, treason and if you follow the crazies, pedophile child trafficking and satanic cults.

Each time, the next batch is going to be the one with the damning information that brings her down, and each batch it's more of the same.

Sure, the contents don't speak well of Hillary, her team, or the media (and I think based on her actions she probably shouldn't be allowed near any sort of classified information again), but these are not the damning bombshells people have been fantasizing about, and those bombshells likely don't exist, because if they did, they would have been released well before millions of people had already voted, and not on the eve of the election.

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> if they did, they would have been released well before millions of people had already voted, and not on the eve of the election.

Assange has claimed multiple times, that he thinks these elections are a farce... Perhaps he knows some things you and me don't.

BTW, I'm not a trump supporter (not even a US citizen), but I don't think Clinton is better than him, at least for the rest of the world. Trump talks a lot, but his administration will probably be more or less the continuation of the Bush/Obama policies, particularly the foreign policy...

> I'm not a trump supporter (not even a US citizen)

Me too!

With Hillary I think American foreign policy will definitely be a continuation (she was the person in charge of it for 4 years), and that's not such a good thing for the rest of the world.

At least with Trump there is the possibility that things could change. I also quite like his ideas around addressing corruption in politics, though again as you mentioned, whether or not he'd be able to actually do anything about it if elected is a different matter entirely.

You like the corruption strategy of a politician whose entire career is corruption. His "charitable" foundation pays his legal bills FCS.
> whose entire career is corruption. His "charitable" foundation pays his legal bills FCS.

Meanwhile... From https://twitter.com/wikileaks/status/795284806510714881

> Chelsea Clinton used Clinton Foundation resources for her wedding -- email from top Bill Clinton aid Doug Band https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/52046#efmABYACC

I like the points he mentioned as a specific policy proposal here:

https://www.donaldjtrump.com/press-releases/donald-j.-trumps...

Please let me know which ones you disagree with.

> Assange has claimed multiple times, that he thinks these elections are a farce... Perhaps he knows some things you and me don't.

I imagine Russian intelligence knows lots of things you and me don't, yes.