"If you start from the premise that Trump is a fascist dictator who has brought Nazi tyranny to the US then it isn't that irrational to believe that anyone who helped empower Trump (which is how they see Assange) deserves to be imprisoned, hence the lack of concern about it,"
On Friday he mused about the ongoing Julian Assange extradition trial in London, offering an explanation as to why mainstream US media has seemingly dropped Assange from its radar, despite during the early years of the most bombshell WikiLeaks revelations working closely with Assange in terms of corroborating coverage.
Greenwald started with a tweet acknowledging that Assange's plight, which includes the possibility of being extradited to the United States where he faces certain life in prison, has received "little media attention" ultimately because it doesn't have an easy partisan angle.
"But another is that many liberals believe their political
adversaries deserve to be in prison," Greenwald stated, going on the
offensive.
And that's where the most famous founding journalist at The Intercept began going off on liberals' exaggeration of what Trump represents and how he came to power:
"If you start from the premise that Trump is a fascist dictator who has brought Nazi tyranny to the US, then it isn't that irrational to believe that anyone who helped empower Trump (which is how they see Assange) deserves to be imprisoned, hence the lack of concern about it," Greenwald said.
<blockquote
class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">It's true
that one reason that the Assange prosecution - despite its extreme
dangers and consequences - is receiving so little media attention is
that it doesn't have a partisan angle.<br><br>But
another is that many liberals believe their political adversaries
deserve to be in prison. <a
href="https://t.co/bViOmUAKDi">https://t.co/bViOmUAKDi</a></p>—
Glenn Greenwald (@ggreenwald) <a
href="https://twitter.com/ggreenwald/status/1306954555075293188?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September
18, 2020</a></blockquote>
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<blockquote
class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">It's true
that one reason that the Assange prosecution - despite its extreme
dangers and consequences - is receiving so little media attention is
that it doesn't have a partisan angle.<br><br>But
another is that many liberals believe their political adversaries
deserve to be in prison. <a
href="https://t.co/bViOmUAKDi">https://t.co/bViOmUAKDi</a></p>—
Glenn Greenwald (@ggreenwald) <a
href="https://twitter.com/ggreenwald/status/1306954555075293188?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September
18, 2020</a></blockquote>
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charset="utf-8"></script>
Essentially Greenwald is saying, 'no, Trump is not a Nazi' — and this flawed belief will only compound errors when it comes to other pressing issues such as Assange's fate.
Greenwald previously addressed the "authoritarian arguments" which claimed the WikiLeaks founder does not deserve journalistic protections.
<blockquote
class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Julian Assange
and the group he founded, <a
href="https://twitter.com/wikileaks?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@WikiLeaks</a>,
have broken most stories of historic importance than most of the US
& UK journalists who hate him *combined.*<br><br>Do
these journalists despise Assange despite this fact, or because of
it?<a
href="https://t.co/Cfcsc4EuLq">https://t.co/Cfcsc4EuLq</a></p>—
Glenn Greenwald (@ggreenwald) <a
href="https://twitter.com/ggreenwald/status/1303678991233167360?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September
9, 2020</a></blockquote>
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charset="utf-8"></script>
Earlier this month President Trump shocked many national security state insiders by suggesting be might be open to pardoning Edward Snowden.
While the Assange case would no doubt be a much higher hurdle for Trump in terms of the 'deep state' fierce pushback that would be sure to follow any similar consideration, it remains a possibility, especially were to Trump take the White House again after November.
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