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The Wikileaks/Trump Jr. exchange shows a conspiracy ... and that Wikileaks is an absolute fraud
Wikileaks is a neutral, nonpartisan agency only interested in transparency. An organization that would never contact one side in an election and both solicit help in spreading a story …“We think it would be great if you guys could comment on / push this story”
And offer messaging advice to that campaign.
“Hey Donald, great to see you and your dad talking about our publications. Strongly suggest your dad tweets this link if he mentions us wlsearch.tk”
They’re passive receivers of information. They don’t go out and somehow find websites that haven’t even launched—ones that might be critical of the Russian government.
“A PAC-run anti-Trump site ‘putintrump.org’ is about to launch.”
Not the sort of people who would hack that site and hand the keys over to a campaign.
“We have guessed the password. It is ‘putintrump’.”
And they absolutely would not do all this in private, through secret messages hidden from the public. Because they’re dedicated to “radical transparency.” Because all those things they would never do … would make it appear that Wikileaks was nothing but an arm of the Russian government’s hacking operation working in coordination with the Trump campaign to boost Trump and shield Putin from any fallout. Which would have been obvious to anyone on the receiving end of those messages.
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2017/11/14/1715465/-The-Wikileaks-Trump-Jr-shows-a-conspiracy-and-that-Wikileaks-is-an-absolute-fraud