Assange still alive and kickin'...

[Rayzer at Riseup.net (Rayzer)]

> Julian Assange, the founder of WikiLeaks, has offered guarded praise of
>  Donald Trump, arguing the president-elect â??is not a DC insiderâ?? and 
> could mean an opportunity for positive as well as negative change in the
>  US.
>
> Assange described his feelings about the US election results in an 
> interview as â??mixedâ?? before going on to sharply criticize Democratic 
> nominee Hillary Clinton and providing a more ambivalent assessment of 
> Trumpâ??s ascent to the White House.
>
> â??Hillary Clintonâ??s election would have been a consolidation of power in 
> the existing ruling class of the United States,â?? Assange told the 
> Italian newspaper la Repubblica.
>
> â??Donald Trump is not a DC insider, he is part of the wealthy ruling 
> elite of the United States, and he is gathering around him a spectrum of
>  other rich people and several idiosyncratic personalities.â??
>
> He added: â??They do not by themselves form an existing structure, so it 
> is a weak structure which is displacing and destabilising the 
> pre-existing central power network within DC. It is a new patronage 
> structure which will evolve rapidly, but at the moment its looseness 
> means there are opportunities for change in the United States: change 
> for the worse and change for the better.

https://www.theguardian.com/media/2016/dec/24/julian-assange-donald-trump-hillary-clinton-interview