Julian Assange is a journalist, meticulously clean, kind to his cat, and not Putin’s b*tch

Rolling Stone, April 11:

In addition to publishing nearly 20,000 Democratic National Committee and Clinton campaign emails believed to have been hacked by Russian operatives in the midst of the 2016 election, Assange reportedly failed to clean up after his cat and skateboarded inside (Ecuador’s London) embassy, increasing tensions with his hosts.

CNET, Richard Trenholm, April 11:

Julian Assange finally leaves his tiny room, but what was it like in there? I went inside a re-creation to imagine life in Assange’s shoes.

“Orwellian” journo John Pilger, socialist rally in Sydney, March 3:

THE PRISONER SAYS NO TO BIG BROTHER

Whenever I visit Julian Assange, we meet in a room he knows too well. There is a bare table and pictures of Ecuador on the walls. There is a bookcase where the books never change. The curtains are always drawn and there is no natural light. The air is still and fetid. This is Room 101.

Don’t mention the stench! Reuters, January 7:

WIKILEAKS TELLS REPORTERS 140 THINGS NOT TO SAY ABOUT JULIAN ASSANGE

(The hacker entity) said it was false and defamatory to suggest that Assange, 47, had ever been employed by the Russian government or that he is, or has ever been, close to the Russian state, the Kremlin or Putin. Other items listed as false … included more personal claims (for example) that Assange bleaches his hair, that he is a hacker, that he has ever neglected an animal or that he has poor personal hygiene.

Hollywood Reporter, Julian’s position on women, February 2, 2013:

“Our WikiLeaks Party will attract the support of many women,” Assange predicted. “I like women. They’re on balance braver than men … (but) I’m not interested in softening my image by planting attractive women around me as for instance George W. Bush did.”

Gonzo scribe Helen Razer, Daily Review, June 19 last year:

JULIAN ASSANGE IS A JOURNALIST, NOT PUTIN’S BITCH

Donald Trump, Twitter, October 10, 2016:

WikiLeaks! I love WikiLeaks!

Mother Russia speaks on the April 11 storming of Londongrad and the seizure of citizen Assange:

“The hand of ‘democracy’ squeezes the throat of freedom,” said Maria Zak­harova, a spokeswoman for the Russian Foreign Ministry.

Socialism.com, Margaret Viggiani, February 2011:

Feminists need to be aware that if Assange is delivered to the US, it only serves the interests of warmongers and a government that cynically used the plight of women in Afghanistan to broaden the war … Women must also be conscious of how false charges of sexual assault have been used to uphold the power structure. From 1882-1951, at least 860 black men in the US were lynched because of accusations of rape or attempted rape of a white woman.

Nick Cohen, The Guardian, September 18, 2011:

You did not have to listen for too long to Julian Assange’s half-educated condemnations of the American “military-industrial complex” to know that he was aching to betray better and braver people than he could ever be. As soon as WikiLeaks received the State Department cables, Assange announced that the opponents of dictatorial regimes and movements were fair game. That the targets of the Taliban, for instance, were fighting a clerical-fascist force, which threatened every good liberal value, did not concern him. They had spoken to US diplomats. They had collaborated with the great Satan. Their safety was not his concern.