Hillary and Bill Clinton took the stage at New York City's Beacon Theater as part of their ongoing speaking tour on Thursday, just hours after the dramatic arrest of Julian Assange -- the founder of the organization WikiLeaks that published damaging emails stolen from her campaign and the Democratic National Committee in 2016.
And, while the former first lady technically made good on her promise earlier in the day not to mention President Trump by name, she revealed while unloading on Assange that her 2016 rival was still very much on her mind.
"It's clear from the indictment that came out that it's not about punishing journalism," she told attendees and moderator Paul Begala, referring to the Assange case. "It's about assisting the hacking of the military computers, sealed information from the United States government. And, look, I'll wait and see what happens with the charges and how it proceeds, but he skipped bail in the U.K., in Sweden had those [rape] charges which have been dropped in the last several years. But, the bottom line is that he has to answer for what he's done, as has been charged."
She then added, to the apparent delight of both the audience and a guffawing Begala: "I do think it's ironic that he may be the only foreigner that this administration would welcome to the U.S."
Separately, the Clintons reacted to the news that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu apparently had won a fifth term in office.
A newly unearthed, secretive batch of classified and sensitive emails from Clinton's personal email server showed that the former secretary of state discussed establishing a "private, 100% off-the-record" back channel with Netanyahu, and that one of her top aides warned her that she was in "danger" of being "savaged by Jewish organizations, in the Jewish press and among the phalanx of neoconservative media" as a result of political machinations by "Bibi and the Jewish leadership."
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betoche ago
What if the UK will imprison him and not extradite him? Why would they? UK is complicit! See Q post 1707 from last JUly 27:
What if the UK gov worked hand-in-hand w/ the Hussein admin to sabotage the 2016 election? Data collection. Voice. Video. Bugging. Creation of fake intel dossier using ex spy. Co-sponsor insurance policy re: POTUS election. PS. LP. No Name. Clapper. Brennan. Rice. LL. HRC. BC. Hussein. +22 What if intel masked penetration(s) to frame Russia? Crowdstrike? Servers. SR. JA. Why does the UK gov desperately want JA? Think source files. The more you know. Q
GodsAngell ago
That's why BARR was on hand in London, to make sure no funny business by the Deep State while Assange was being processed for extradition. I suspect Assange is already in the USA.
Was Barr at the Assange Arrest?
https://voat.co/v/GreatAwakening/3157067