Guest Post by Ron Paul
One thing we’ve learned from the Trump Presidency is that the “deep state” is not just some crazy conspiracy theory. For the past three years we’ve seen that deep state launch plot after plot to overturn the election.
It all started with former CIA director John Brennan’s phony “Intelligence Assessment” of Russian involvement in the 2016 election. It was claimed that all 17 US intelligence agencies agreed that Putin put Trump in office, but we found out later that the report was cooked up by a handful of Brennan’s hand-picked agents.
Donald Trump upset the Washington apple cart as presidential candidate and in so doing he set elements of the deep state in motion against him.
One of the things candidate Donald Trump did to paint a deep state target on his back was his repeated praise of Wikileaks, the pro-transparency media organization headed up by Australian journalist Julian Assange. More than 100 times candidate Trump said “I love Wikileaks” on the campaign trail.
Trump loved it when Wikileaks exposed the criminality of Hillary Clinton and the Democratic Party, as it cheated to deprive Bernie Sanders of the Democratic Party nomination. Wikileaks’ release of the DNC emails exposed the deep corruption at the heart of US politics, and as a candidate Trump loved the transparency.
Then Trump got elected.
The real tragedy of the Trump presidency is nowhere better demonstrated than in Trump’s 180 degree turn away from Wikileaks and its founder Julian Assange. “I know nothing about Wikileaks,” he said as president. “It’s really not my thing.”
US pressure and bribes to the Ecuadorian government ended Assange’s asylum and his seven years in a room at the Ecuadorian embassy in London. After his dramatic arrest by London’s Metropolitan Police last April, he has been effectively tortured in British jails at the behest of the US deep state.
Today, Monday the 24th of February, Assange faces an extradition hearing in a UK courthouse. The Trump Administration – led by a man who praised Assange’s work – seeks a show trial of Assange worthy of the worst of the Soviet era. The US is seeking a 175 year prison sentence.
The Trump Administration argues that the Australian Assange should be tried and convicted of espionage against a country of which he is not a citizen. At the same time the Trump Administration argues that the First Amendment does not apply to Assange because he is not an American citizen! So Assange is subject to US law when it comes to publishing information embarrassing to the US deep state but he is not subject to the law of the land – the US Constitution – which protects all journalists and is the backbone of our system of government.
It is ironic that a President Trump who has been victim of so much deep state meddling has done the deep state’s bidding when it comes to Assange and Wikileaks. President Trump should preempt the inevitable US show trial of Assange by granting the journalist blanket pardon under the First Amendment of the United States Constitution.
The deep state Trump is serving by persecuting Assange is the same deep state that continues to plot Trump’s own ouster. Free Assange!
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One of the best indicators that Trump remains under the thumb of the deep state is his treatment of Assange. There have long been insinuations that Assange has information that proves Russia had nothing to do with Clinton’s email leak, rather it was Seth Rich. This would upend everything the deep state, Democrats, and MSM have said about Russiagate and prove that it’s been an attempted coup all along. That Trump hasn’t pardoned Assange in return for evidence to prove this is inexplicable, unless Trump is under their control–or that the insinuations are wrong and Assange has no such evidence. In any case, since Assange is guilty of no crime other than spreading the damning truth, he should be released.
I agree. Trump could easily do a 180 in short order given that he is purging the intel community at the moment plus the evidence that Seth Rich was the leaker.
You agree and then Trump ‘is purging the intel community at the moment’. Oh, really? Do you know what you write? You narrative pretenders. This system is too good for you because it’s beyond your comprehension. A 180 from purging the deep state enemy is how it is in Assange’s pen. The lack of brain power here to properly down vote your comment is staggering. We know it’s not an IQ problem. “Come– all ye- stoo– pid. Let’s have a doe-mock– ra-cee.” How can we win if we don’t discriminate enough to deal with facts coherently? Is there anyone here interested in fucking civilization who is actually mentally capable? If that confuses you, moo.
Really Doug? Your head must hurt since you are so friggin smart. You pathetic condescending asshole!
The onion Trump is peeling is bigger than you can wrap your puny head around.
You will never be my mental equal.
LMAO!!!!!!!!!!
Not the Seth Rich hoax again…
http://mileswmathis.com/rich.pdf
The difference between Ron Paul and Rand Paul is the difference between lightning and the lightning bug. I now await the Cult-of-Personality morons to impugn this comment to besmirch me as the real enemy.
When the beastly stampede gets moving, the lone wolf must retreat to the periphery. I applaud your Fight Club disposition, even in disagreement, please continue.
Trump has betrayed a lot of people, but mainly the white middle class guys who voted for him.
How so ?
Immigration. From “send them all back” to now “we want them pouring in”.
Lock her up!
Build the wall!
End birthright citizenship!
End DACA!
Pay down the debt!
End the deficit!
Get out of the UN/NATO!
Trade deficits out of control!
Drain the swamp!
Concealed carry reciprocity – instead we got bump stock bans and red flag laws.
End the foreign interventions and bring the troops home!
Opioid epidemic!
Censorship of conservatives on the internet!
Want me to go on?
I don’t remember prison reform (i.e. early release for black felons), fighting the “scourge of white nationalism” while antifa goes unpunished, Drag Queen Story Hour, universal GloboHomo and whatever Israel wants being chanted at the Trump rallies in 2016.
Where am I wrong?
BOOM!
Buttsex is our strength.
BOOM! Trump giving big speech in India.
Thou hast nailed it.
And yet these cretins.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mmn9DPegpww
Assange = 9/11 flunky and fake whistleblower
Why people still talk about this slow motion hoax is beyond me.
“I’m constantly annoyed that people are distracted by false conspiracies such as 9/11, when all around we provide evidence of real conspiracies, for war or mass financial fraud.” – Julian Assange 19 Jul 2010