Why does Julian Assange hate Hillary? I was not aware of this until some announcer just mentioned

[patricia92243]

it. I tried Googling it but really didn't know what to look for.

[W_HAMILTON]

1. Try this link:

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/27/us/politics/assange-timed-wikileaks-release-of-democratic-emails-to-harm-hillary-clinton.html

[Starry Messenger]

2. Alleged rapist might be a misogynist--just a thought.

[dsc]

3. He is a rapist and she is a powerful woman

enough said.

[teach1st]

4. Just Google Julian Assange hates Hillary

Assange, Avowed Foe of Clinton, Timed Email Release for Democratic Convention

Here's the Google search: https://www.google.com/search?q=Julian%20Assange%20hates%20hillary&oq=Julian%20Assange%20hates%20hillary&ie=UTF-8&aqs=chrome..69i57.4847j0j1&sourceid=chrome-instant&ion=1&biw=1162&bih=597&dpr=1.25&cad=cbv&bvch=u&sei=dEuZV5jkFJHveLmiuJgJ&rct=j

[TexasProgresive]

5. From W.HAMILTON's link I think this is the real answer

First, citing his “personal perspective,” Mr. Assange accused Mrs. Clinton of having been among those pushing to indict him after WikiLeaks disseminated a quarter of a million diplomatic cables during her tenure as secretary of state.

“We do see her as a bit of a problem for freedom of the press more generally,” Mr. Assange said.

[That Guy 888]

7. Seems the most likely

I don't like the return to the Cold War that Putin and our politicians seem to yearn for. The only free press is cheerleader press.

[charlyvi]

11. And Trump and his supporters threatening reporters at his rallies,

banning the Washington Post, threatening to ban the NYT, and of course:

We have been witness to Donald Trump’s hostility toward anyone who is at all critical of him, even if it is only to the extent of asking him questions, or accurately quoting him. This has morphed into something more with reports that the live feed cables from MSNBC and CNN were tampered with during a Trump event.

More ominously, Donald Trump wants to be able to take legal action against those he thinks are unkind in their reporting. Friday in Texas, Trump revealed his utter disdain for the First Amendment’s freedom of the press, proclaiming that he’s “gonna open up our libel laws so when they write purposely negative and horrible and false articles, we can sue them and win lots of money.”

He complained to the crowd, as he sold them his own pack of lies, “I think the media is among the most dishonest groups of people I’ve ever met. They’re terrible.”

That’s some claim coming from one of the 21st century’s foremost liars. The solution to people reporting unwelcome facts about him, Trump says, is to tear up the First Amendment and start suing the media silly. This claim earned him thunderous applause. Nobody hates critics of Donald Trump more than Donald Trump than his cultists.
http://www.politicususa.com/2016/02/27/trump-freedom-press-not-people.html

is the paradigm of a free press.


So, nah, I'm pretty sure it's the misogyny.

[davidn3600]

14. Trump hasn't tried to put Assange in jail. Hillary did.

He has no motivation to go after Trump right now.

Hillary and Obama have actively tried to jail Assange and shut down his operations. He sees them as a bigger threat.

[Cali_Democrat]

17. How exactly did Hillary try to put Assange in jail? nt

[charlyvi]

18. I was addressing a direct quote from Julian Assange.

“We do see her as a bit of a problem for freedom of the press more generally,” Mr. Assange said.

Not speculation about his motives, but the motive he himself has given which is laughable on its face.

On Edit: In addition to the rape charge he fled the country from rather than face.

[Cali_Democrat]

16. Is there evidence that Hillary pushed to indict him? nt

[charlyvi]

21. I know, right?

I guess we're just supposed to take his word for it.....because Julian Assange says so. The word of a accused rapist and known anti-Semite.

[Zing Zing Zingbah]

20. Sounds like a personal vendetta...

and he's pretending like he's looking out for the rest of us because he doesn't want to seem like he is using wikileaks "the press" for selfish reasons. I think it was a mistake on his part, because reasonable, intelligent people around the world can see through that.

[rjsquirrel]

6. Assange is a preening narcissist

and a man of zero pinciples. He demands attention. He's like Trump only even creepier.

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

8. He's a Rand Paul devotee

[4now]

9. Because he is a rapist who is hiding out from justice

[Goldie5]

10. She is a powerful woman, that's why

Look at the WikiLeaks twitter page. It looks like something you'd see on Fox News. If they were really objective, they would bash Trump for wanting to restrict the media. But I see only Hillary-bashing.
And look at this post from the Daily Beast last year: http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2015/10/14/wikileaks-anti-feminist-rant.html

[fleabiscuit]

12. Interesting link, and welcome to DU.

[davidn3600]

13. He blames her for trying to get him indicted for the State department cable leaks

WikiLeaks and much of the hacker community also don't particularly like the way the Obama administration chased Snowden and have suggested curtailing internet freedoms.

Their big thing is that governments should be transparent and should not be trying to restrain the freedom of speech and a free internet.

[Cali_Democrat]

15. Rapists are misogynists.

He resents the fact that the most powerful person in the world could be a woman.

So he's doing everything he can to stop it.

He'd rather have Trump than Hillary.

[davidn3600]

19. Julian Assange has never said anything remotely misogynistic

Every time he has ever spoken it is about his crusade for government transparency. Something Obama once believed in as a candidate himself, but obviously not anymore.

Just because Assange opposes Hillary Clinton doesn't make him misogynist. His opposition to what the Democrats have favored so far is not a surprise. Since Obama took office, this party has only intensified what George W. Bush started with surveillance state and curtailing freedoms and privacy.

Remember when Bush was in office how progressives were against things like the Patriot Act? Remember how we opposed things like "either with us or against us?" Since we gained the White House, we have adopted the same fucking policies! Now no Democrat will criticize the NSA. No one here will criticize the phone meta-data sweeps (even though Biden in 2007 as a Senator trashed Bush with that). Now all this is A-OK because the the guy in charge is someone we like? Think about it.

[Juliette]

22. Is Julian Assange a misogynist rapist?

I'm not sure if his recent legal problems have helped his mommy issues --or whatever they are.

He has been holed up for years in a room at the Embassy of Ecuador (in UK) avoiding trial -- for the rape of two women!

These women are Swedish social rights activists who identify themselves as pro-women's rights and were claimed in defense as "having a bizarre view of men in Anna Ardin’s circle.”
check out whole article here:
[link:http://observer.com/2016/02/exclusive-new-docs-throw-doubt-on-julian-assange-rape-charges-in-stockholm/| It talks about Assange's claim that these women were sexual aggressors and it claims that "Sweden has been a matriarchy since the Stone Age, when the men lived in barns with the animals and only came into the house when it was time to impregnate the women."
these women "‘are chauvinists, like the worst kind of chauvinism among men—but on the feminist spectrum. They speak of men as sexual tools, and say they’re not necessary for intellectual discussions.’

Maybe he just totally hates women now? Nothing better to do in his prison-amnesty but to hack away at the character of HRC - the most powerful woman in the current world.

[patricia92243]

23. Good post. Welcome to DU!