Donald Trump once suggested that the death penalty should be a punishment for WikiLeaks’ releases of information, according to newly unearthed comments the president-elect made to Fox News in 2010. CNN’s KFILE team uncovered the remarks, in which Trump called the leaking site “disgraceful” after it revealed documents stolen by Army Private Chelsea Manning, known at the time as Bradley Manning. “I think it’s disgraceful, I think there should be like death penalty or something,” Trump said.
This morning, Trump took to Twitter to defend WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, a day after Assange claimed in a Fox News interview that the Russian government was not its source for the leaked emails from John Podesta’s inbox and the Democratic National Committee’s network. Trump has dismissed the intelligence community’s assessments about Russia’s involvement and intentions in the cyberattacks, siding instead with Assange. Read more at CNN.
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this article is more “objective” reporting by none other than CNN. CNN, the washington prust and all the other left wing media outlets are going all out attacking Trump. they could not beat him at the ballot box, so now their tactic is to make him look bad going into his presidency. what is so unusual about saying one thing one day and seven years later having a change of heart? not a day later, or a month later, but SEVEN YEARS later. when are they going to get off his back?
what a diff of info shared from wiki back then to whats been leaked at the DNC.
To chaiml I don’t know about you but 2010 to me feels like yesterday