Donald Trumps Betrayal of Julian Assange by Ron Paul!
(2020-02-24 at 10:40:48 )

Donald Trumps Betrayal of Julian Assange by Ron Paul!

One thing we have learned from the Donald Trump Presidency is that the "deep state" is not just some crazy conspiracy theory.

For the past three years we have seen that deep state launch plot after plot to overturn the election.

It all started with former Central Intelligence Agency director John Brennans phony "Intelligence Assessment" of Russian involvement in the 2016 election.

It was claimed that all 17 United States intelligence agencies agreed that Mr. Putin put Mr. Trump in office, but we found out later that the report was cooked up by a handful of Mr. Brennans hand-picked agents.

Donald Trump upset the Washington,D.C. 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.

Donald 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 United States politics, and as a candidate Donald Trump loved the transparency.

Then Donald Trump got elected.

The real tragedy of the Donald Trump presidency is nowhere better demonstrated than in Donald Trumps 180 degree turn away from Wikileaks and its founder Julian Assange. "I know nothing about Wikileaks," he said as president. "It is really not my thing."

United States pressure and bribes to the Ecuadorian government ended Julian Assanges asylum and his seven years in a room at the Ecuadorian embassy in London.

After his dramatic arrest by Londons Metropolitan Police last April, he has been effectively tortured in British jails at the behest of the United States deep state.

Today, Monday the 24th of February, Julian Assange faces an extradition hearing in a United Kingdom courthouse.

The Trump Administration - led by a man who praised Mr. Assanges work - seeks a show trial of Julian Assange worthy of the worst of the Soviet era.

The United States is seeking a 175 year prison sentence.

The Trump Administration argues that the Australian Julian 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 Julian Assange because he is not an American citizen!

So Julian Assange is subject to United States law when it comes to publishing information embarrassing to the United States deep state but he is not subject to the law of the land - the United States 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 states bidding when it comes to Mr. Julian Assange and Wikileaks.

President Trump should preempt the inevitable United States show trial of Julian Assange by granting the journalist blanket pardon under the First Amendment of the United States Constitution.

The deep state Donald Trump is serving by persecuting Mr. Julian Assange is the same deep state that continues to plot Donald Trumps own ouster.

Free Assange!

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