With Ecuador, Great Britain, and the United States having arranged to get Julian Assange into the hands of the American state, we are provided the opportunity to find out what Donald Trump is really about. During his 2016 campaigning, he offered a number of favorable comments about Assange’s important work. And of late, his public speeches have condemned the “fake news” provided by the mainstream media. With Assange being set up by the same forces that imprisoned Galileo and so many other speakers of truth, will Trump now issue a pardon to Assange – as well as to Chelsea Manning and other truth-tellers – to confirm to the world the comprehensive meaning of the First Amendment: to prohibit the government from restraining any of us in thinking, speaking, writing, and peacefully associating with one another on any matter whatsoever?
So far this day, the only robust defense I have seen of Assange and Wikileaks has been penned by Glenn Greenwald in The Intercept. Donald Trump can add the prestige of his office in support of the idea that no one should be punished for speaking the truth!
2:25 pm on April 11, 2019
