"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.