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by constantcrying 726 days ago
> 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.