[constantcrying]

I don't get the accusation at all.

If anyone here remembers 2016, the vast majority of people, especially in Europe, believed that Trump's chances of winning were miniscule and that he was a joke candidate who only ran to satisfy his ego, not because he even wanted to become president.

If Assange, like basically every other journalist, believed that sabotaging Clinton's campaign was essentially impossible, then it provided a great opportunity to showcase corruption and gain support for his cause.

Additionally sitting on documents and dropping them closely before elections is a very common tactic. In the same way you would have to condemn the top AfD candidate being confronted with allegations, which the leakers had known for months, very shortly before the EU election. Certainly not any coincidence.

[btgeekboy]

I’m not saying Assange is fully responsible for the outcome of the 2016 election. But when you directly attack one party of a two party race, you’re actively giving the edge to the other. He clearly held a grudge against Clinton (https://wikileaks.org/hillary-war/) and continued to act upon it.

Now that this multi-decade saga is coming to an end, and we have the benefit of hindsight, I’m wondering if he still thinks that the blast radius of his actions were acceptable, or if perhaps he thinks he should have been more cautious before standing for his principles and acting upon that grudge. From what I know, I’d be remorseful and regret having done it, but I am not him.

[constantcrying]

> But when you directly attack one party of a two party race, you’re actively giving the edge to the other. He clearly held a grudge against Clinton (https://wikileaks.org/hillary-war/) and continued to act upon it.

So you also agree that the German press publishing damaging allegations directly before the European election against the top AfD candidate was also unacceptable?

This is just a very common tactic in journalism. Leaking stuff directly before the election is just normal and happens all the time.