Is There a Connection Between TruePundit and Julian Assange?

“WE WILL SEE YOU IN LONDON”

by Sharon Rondeau

(Nov. 9, 2016) — While tweeting about the election returns between Tuesday night and Wednesday morning, “Thomas Paine,” who is associated with the website TruePundit.com, tweeted a photo of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange with the caption, “Cheers, my friend. We will see you in London,” followed by the WikiLeaks and Assange hashtags.

TruePundit.com has suggested that information has been shared with Assange over the last month or more, although which party might have initiated it is not clear.

TruePundit.com has extensively covered WikiLeaks’ releases of Clinton campaign manager John Podesta’s emails over the last month which showed collaboration between the Clinton campaign and major media; certain ethnic and racial groups having been referred to in demeaning terms; and Clinton’s communications director, Jennifer Palmieri, encouraging campaign manager Robby Mook to tell the media “a big, elaborate lie” at the time the Clinton private email server story broke.

While WikiLeaks has suggested in its Twitter feed that there may be serious criminality associated with the Clinton Foundation, a non-profit run by Bill, Hillary and Chelsea Clinton currently under FBI investigation, TruePundit reported on Friday that search warrants and FBI raids might soon be occurring as a result of alleged newly-uncovered evidence from Anthony Weiner’s laptop.

Weiner is the estranged husband of top Clinton aide Huma Abedin.

In early October, TruePundit correctly predicted that WikiLeaks releases would reveal that Hillary Clinton suggested killing Assange with a drone during a national security meeting on November 23, 2010.  The website later released a photo of the meeting which showed that Clinton was wearing what the website had described in its first posting and identified all of those in attendance.

For the last four years, Assange has been living in two-room quarters at the Ecuadorian embassy in London, as he believes that the United States will extradite him if he were to leave the embassy’s sanctuary as a result of his having released documents containing classified information allegedly obtained from then-Pvt. Bradley Manning, who is serving a 35-year prison term for a conviction on the charge.

Assange is wanted by Swedish authorities for questioning relating to a charge of sexual assault lodged against him which Assange said has been dropped and the accuser exposed as having lied.  In an interview with John Pilger released on Saturday, Assange indicated that he is willing to answer Sweden’s questions but wants a guarantee from that nation of safe passage there which Sweden said it will not issue.

On Monday, Sweden announced that it will observe an interview of Assange in London on the matter to be conducted by an Ecuadorian intermediary.

During the Pilger interview, Assange expressed concern that his children have been forced to “adapt” to his absence, which has been ongoing since August 2012.