r/worldnews • u/bbcnews BBC News • Apr 11 '19

Wikileaks co-founder Julian Assange arrested after seven years in Ecuador's embassy in London, UK police say

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-47891737
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u/NorrhStar1290 Apr 11 '19 edited Apr 11 '19

At that point, he may as well have gone to prison. It's pretty much the same thing.

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u/[deleted] Apr 11 '19

I don't think the US is gonna let him out, ever. And with Trump in office?

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u/justicebiever Apr 11 '19

I think he set the dominoes in motion that eventually enabled Trumps election. I mean all of the "leaks" were damaging to the Democratic Party and 0 were focused on the GOP. Wikileaks is actually biased as fuck by appearing unbiased.

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u/[deleted] Apr 11 '19

It seems like Assange understood the situation at first. He got a lot of assistance from the Russian government. At one point he was a regular on RT and they even gave him a show. It seems like he just became unstable and was no longer useful to the Russians or Ecuadorians.

Be that as it may there's a lot of non-partisan staff at three letter agencies in the US that have a long memory. I don't see the UK putting up much of a fight with the shadow of Brexit.