Wikileaks and Julian Assange rode in at the obvious bidding of Vladimir Putin today, to assist Donald Trump, Putin’s candidate, being run by fixer Paul Manafort. As Tim Kaine stunned the world with a mighty speech, Julian Assange tried to release some minor DNC leaks that looked anti-Bernie – although everybody had pretty much figured out that Debbie Wasserman Schulz wasn’t playing fair long ago.
For a long time Putin has been running Wikileaks. His attempt to use them today to release DNC emails was further evidence that Trump is Russia’s pet candidate.
However, Julian Assange, long known to have said many publicly anti-semitic things, and who is widely believed to tweet the @wikileaks account – as a former biographer reported – ruined his day’s press by tweeting and then deleting this amazingly anti-semitic tweet:
The (( )) symbol is used by Jews and their supporters to fight back against the anti-semitism of the alt-right.
Many liberals on Twitter who had previously supported Assange were mortified. Brianna Wu kindly showed me the second, double-down tweet of racism from a presumably blind drunk Assange:
@LouiseMensch @dhw @wikileaks @JulianAssange_ Here's the follow up. pic.twitter.com/pWb5w7ouSP
— Brianna Wu (@Spacekatgal) July 24, 2016
Not only the denigration of the ((())) symbol but also the use of the term ‘tribalist’ to imply Jews is, of course, base racism, a particular racism that Putin shares.
Holy shit. Holy shit. Holy shit. pic.twitter.com/b6QrDVDsu0
— Kelsey D. Atherton (@AthertonKD) July 23, 2016
Are you fucking kidding me https://t.co/0a8NkLr8Kf pic.twitter.com/oDpFA6BMZZ
— Kelsey D. Atherton (@AthertonKD) July 23, 2016
When I pointed out the rabid anti-semitism of these tweets Assange/Julian replied to me saying it wasn’t racist:
@LouiseMensch Nonsense. Our critique is of those who are not anti-racists but who are using it as a pro-establishment designator.
On being challenged about not leaking anything against Putin, wikileaks / Assange replied they/he had done so, but linked to a site full of pro-Putin propaganda leaks:
@LouiseMensch Here are 650,000 documents published by WikiLeaks, most of which are critical of Putin https://t.co/NARIg4dWuw
— WikiLeaks (@wikileaks) July 23, 2016
But sadly, his link went to a page that was full of Pro-Putin propaganda:
Twitter wasn’t impressed:
It's almost as if the @wikileaks founder had his own damn show on a Kremlin propaganda channel. pic.twitter.com/X4IBWfBnLH
— Casey Michel (@cjcmichel) July 24, 2016
It's almost as if @wikileaks has a questionable view of post-Soviet dictatorships. pic.twitter.com/ljBH1SlOgH
— Casey Michel (@cjcmichel) July 24, 2016
In 2011, Assange insisted that his media enemies were either Jews or "sort of Jewish". https://t.co/w7IqQAEnhU
— Kyle W. Orton (@KyleWOrton) July 24, 2016
@infamousglasses @wikileaks OK. Russia hacked DNC emails. That was all over the news. Now Wiki is releasing DNC emails. It's suspect.
— tanya rankle (@rankled2) July 24, 2016
Wait, so is @wikileaks' thing now to be used by Russia to try to influence US politics? Huh.
— Banjo Legs (@ColinWaters) July 24, 2016
WikiLeaks working with Russia to bring down our best defense against having a moron in charge is bad enough without the antisemitism
— Dana Schwartz (@DanaSchwartzzz) July 24, 2016
This… is a very bad look for @wikileaks pic.twitter.com/Mb54uHYOP6 pic.twitter.com/u0D3tyzZ0U
— Daniel Drezner (@dandrezner) July 24, 2016
@politico Why doesbt @wikileaks reveal their sources or hack Trump? Oh wait Wikileaks works for russia #PutinTrump2016
— Liberty_Sara (@LibertySaranya) July 24, 2016
Don't let the right ratf**k you! Wikileaks is funded by Russia. Snowden went to Russia. Greenwald does nothing but bitch about Dems.
— MsJoanne (@MsJoanne) July 24, 2016
Indeed the worst news here for Trump, Putin and Julian Assange is that voters in general have noticed (finally) that Trump’s alt-right twitter bot army from Russia is connected to Wikileaks.
Don't let the right ratf**k you! Wikileaks is funded by Russia. Snowden went to Russia. Greenwald does nothing but bitch about Dems.
— MsJoanne (@MsJoanne) July 24, 2016
It's not just a bromace, Trumps financial empire is strapped for cash & most of the new investment comes from Russia https://t.co/hh3PaCcG7s
— Josh Marshall (@joshtpm) July 23, 2016
This latest WikiLeaks garbage not 1st time Assange has spread his anti-Semitism: https://t.co/7ElOkXBDdg (via @ladyhaja)
— Marlow Stern (@MarlowNYC) July 24, 2016
@RainierOunce wikileaks is going full antisemite?
— Pumpkin Spice Friar (@AquariusFriar) July 24, 2016
And yet merely for doing the charitable thing and helping Wikileaks out by pointing out their anti-semitism, the “We Open Governments” trolls blocked your humble correspondent at Heat Street.
What a bunch of special, special snowflakes.
