Trump, WikiLeaks, and Russia

There is much that the United States and Russia could usefully cooperate on now, starting with putting an end to the war in Syria. On this issue, at least, Donald Trump is right and Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, and the spooks are wrong.

Russian President Vladimir Putin has been quite open about preferring Donald Trump to Hillary Clinton, and the leaks definitely gave a boost to Trump’s election campaign in late July and August.Photographs courtesy of Gage Skidmore and Mark Garten

Opinion

BY GWYNNE DYER

January 16, 2017

LONDON, ENGLAND—When a Fox News reporter asked Donald Trump about WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange back in 2010, just after Assange had released a huge cache of secret U.S. diplomatic cables, the reality TV star had no doubts: “I think it's disgraceful, I think there should be like the death pen...

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