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[sebastian_dangerfield]

I wonder if Trump and Barr are dumb enough to think Assange has nothing to trade.

So to the whole world we are now the country that lets its President’s consigliere prosecute a foreign national for journalism.

I don’t care about much. But press freedom I care about deeply. I hated when Obama viciously went after leakers, and I was encouraged by Trump’s embrace of Wikileaks. Naively, I assumed he’d attack media bias but embrace the leaking and publishing of secrets that basically gifted him the Presidency. Instead, he’s using Assange to send a message and create a diversion from his own criminal investigations and his AG’s behavior.

And grotesquely, many on the left and right will applaud or engage in the worst sophistry to defend this indictment.