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Trump backers realize they’ve been played as WikiLeaks fails to deliver October surprise


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Oh well the right wing conspiracy media gave you guys hand signals, so many of you guys are all bleary eyed form staying up to hear Assange?

Breathless in MomoLand :lol::lol: 

 

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Trump backers realize they’ve been played as WikiLeaks fails to deliver October surprise

 

The Washington Post    Griff Witte

LONDON — The expectations were breathless.

 

For weeks, backers of Republican nominee Donald Trump have hyped the tantalizing possibility that the anti-secrecy organization WikiLeaks was on the verge of publishing a set of documents that would doom Hillary Clinton’s chances in November.

 

“@HillaryClinton is done,” longtime Trump associate Roger Stone tweeted Saturday. “#Wikileaks.”

 

The group’s founder, Julian Assange, did nothing to dampen the enthusiasm, suggesting to Fox News hosts that his scoops could upend the race with documents “associated with the election campaign, some quite unexpected angles, some quite interesting.”

 

The announcement by WikiLeaks that it would host a major news conference Tuesday only seemed to confirm that the bombshell was ready to burst. The pro-Trump, anti-Clinton media world rippled with fevered speculation.

 

But if an October surprise about the Democratic nominee really is coming, it will have to wait a little longer.

 

Over the course of two hours Tuesday — with the world’s media and bleary-eyed Trump die-hards across the United States tuning in — Assange and other WikiLeaks officials railed against “neo-McCarthyist hysteria,” blasted the mainstream press, appealed for donations and plugged their books (“40 percent off!”).

 

But what they didn’t do was provide any new information about Clinton — or about anything else, really.

 

The much-vaunted news conference, as it turned out, was little more than an extended infomercial for WikiLeaks on the occasion of the 10th anniversary of its founding.

 

Assange, whose group released a trove of hacked Democratic National Committee documents on the eve of the party’s convention this summer, breezily dismissed the idea that anyone should have expected any news at his news conference.

 

“If we are going to make a major publication about the U.S., we wouldn't do it at 3 a.m.," Assange said at one point, referring to the Eastern daylight start time for the event.

 

That didn’t go over well with Trump backers who had stayed up through the night, thinking they’d be watching live the unveiling of the death blow to the Clinton campaign.

 

Assange, as it turns out, had taken a page from Trump’s own playbook by drawing an audience with a tease, only to leave those tuning in feeling that they’d been tricked.

 

Infowars, the pro-Trump and virulently anti-Clinton media vehicle launched by Texas radio host Alex Jones, had touted the WikiLeaks news conference as “historic” and promised that “the Clintons will be devastated.”

 

Before Assange took the stage, Jones — who broadcast through the wee hours of the American morning — told viewers and listeners he was so excited he was worried his heart couldn't stand it.

But by the end, Jones realized he’d been played — or in his words, “#wikirolled.”

The rest of the story  http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/trump-backers-realize-they’ve-been-played-as-wikileaks-fails-to-deliver-october-surprise/ar-BBwYvPI

 

 

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25 minutes ago, Mainecat said:

Clinton will be the first female president as a democrat that will succeed a 2 term black democrat  president.

heads will explode here.

Pretty sure people care more about what kind of president they are instead of their skin color or if they have a vag or not. 

Japs make your head explode 

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Just now, Skidooski said:

Pretty sure people care more about what kind of president they are instead of their skin color or if they have a vag or not. 

Japs make your head explode 

It's 2016 and Neanderthal liberals can't get past genitals :lol: 

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1 hour ago, Elkhorn said:

I didn't realize October was gone already....

Sometimes you got to fudge a little to meet your quota of 5 anti trump threads per day. :lol: 

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9 minutes ago, Anler said:

Hard to believe we are just a month away from having a lunatic or a career criminal for president. 

It's disheartening to say the least. I'd almost rather have Obama stay in

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4 hours ago, Mileage Psycho said:

Oh well the right wing conspiracy media gave you guys hand signals, so many of you guys are all bleary eyed form staying up to hear Assange?

Breathless in MomoLand :lol::lol: 

 

 

What's changed...???  They fell for Dump :lol: 

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2 hours ago, Skidooski said:

Pretty sure people care more about what kind of president they are instead of their skin color or if they have a vag or not. 

Japs make your head explode 

Tell us more about Dump :snack:

 

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