Kevin Gosztola
2 min readDec 26, 2019

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Who Needs To Worry About Being An Ass?

I don’t believe you have what you think you have. You link and refer to a CNN story:

But after that Assange operated from his room in the Ecuadorian Embassy in London — where he had sought asylum since 2012 — to conspire with Russian operatives facilitating hacks and leaks of information from both the Clinton and the Trump campaigns in 2016. Then Julian Assange sold out to the highest bidder: in this case, Russia.

You rely on an article that I picked apart and exposed as fraudulent here.

…there is little to no evidence in the report to substantiate the conspiracy theory that CNN reporters want the public to believe.

Much of CNN’s report quotes from the Mueller report, not the private security company materials. It plugs in meetings and interactions Assange had with visitors that align with dates in the report in order to claim this appears to be evidence of collaboration with the Russian government, but CNN does not know what transpired.

Please don’t tell me what to do then insult me. It only makes you look infantile, and it degrades this website which is setup to create a space for civil discussion. (And I could make a case that it violates Medium Rules.)

We can debate, but you’ll have to come up with actual evidence. You’ll have to engage and rebut arguments in my original post that articulated how Julian Assange is a journalist.

Until I see such evidence, as well as a mature effort to discuss the issues at hand, I’m afraid you are wasting my time.

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Kevin Gosztola
Kevin Gosztola

Written by Kevin Gosztola

Journalist, film/video college graduate, and movie fan. Previously published by Fanfare and Counter Arts. https://letterboxd.com/kgosztola/

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