Assange says he is '1,000% confident' that Russia was NOT the source for hacked Democratic emails which were published by WikiLeaksJulian Assange claimed Barack Obama is 'trying to delegitimize Donald
Trump' |
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has said Barack Obama is 'trying to
delegitimize the Trump administration' by claiming the Russian government hacked
Democrats' emails during the bitter presidential election.
Assange, whose interview with Sean Hannity will air on Fox News tonight, also
reiterated his claims that Russia was not the source of the hacks.
He told Hannity 'with a thousand per cent' confidence that the Russian
government was not responsible for emails stolen from the Democratic National
Committee and John Podesta, Hillary Clinton's campaign chairman.
Julian Assange, whose interview will air on Fox News tonight, reiterated his claims that the Russian government was not responsible for the hacks during the 2016 presidential election
In tonight's interview on Fox News, Assange claims Obama's administration are 'trying to say that President-elect Trump is not a legitimate President'
Those emails were published online by WikiLeaks in the lead-up to the November 8 vote.
Democrats claimed the hacks were a deliberate attempt to undermine Mrs Clinton's campaign and boost support for Donald Trump.
Last week as the row intensified, Obama expelled 35 Russian
diplomats from the country. They arrived back in Russia on Monday
morning.
Moscow denies any involvement in election-related hacking.
Assange is currently living under political asylum in
the Ecuadorian embassy in London, where he sought refuge from a Swedish
investigation into rape allegations from his 2010 visit to the country.
The interview tonight marks his first face-to-face TV news appearance.
Speaking to Hannity about the WikiLeaks revelations, he said: 'We can say, we
have said, repeatedly that over the last two months that our source is not the
Russian government and it is not a state party.
'Our publications had wide uptake by the American people, they're all true. But
that's not the allegation that's being presented by the Obama White House.
'So, why such a dramatic response? Well, the reason is obvious. They're trying
to delegitimize the Trump administration as it goes into the White House.
'They are trying to say that President-elect Trump is not a legitimate
President.'
Last week Obama expelled 35 Russians over the hacking allegations during the
presidential election.
The US government accused the diplomats of 'acting in a manner inconsistent with
their diplomatic status' – a euphemism for spying – and gave them 72 hours to
leave the country.
Using Cold War rhetoric, he said the hacking 'could only have been directed by
the highest levels of the Russian government', suggesting Russian President
Vladimir Putin was personally involved.
The Russian government dismissed hacking allegations as absurd but Putin
declined to order a tit-for-tat expulsion of American diplomats, claiming he
would not 'stoop' to Obama's level.
He said he would consider the actions of President-elect Trump, who takes office
on January 20, when deciding on further steps in Russia-US relations.
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