Fugitive WikLeaks founder Julian Assange speaks via Skype at the South By SouthWest Interactive festival in Austin, Texas, Saturday, March 8, 2014.
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Wikileaks released a series of voicemails Wednesday from the Democratic National Committee hack showing donors plying top-level officials for favors, and one donor expressing outrage that Vermont Sen.
The findings have increased tensions at the Democratic National Convention this week as Hilary Clinton receives the nomination, with many Sanders even walking out in protest. Bernie Sanders had won a say in the drafting of the party’s platform. “He’s getting way too much influence”.
While Bernie Sanders responded to the DNC leaks on July 22 with a firm resolution that Debbie Wasserman-Schultz needed to resign as chair, Hillary Clinton has avoided DNC leaks questions, according to the Blaze. The caller threatens to leave the party if the DNC doesn’t stop “coddling” to Sanders.
The leaked recordings, 29 of them in total, are identified by phone number and total approximately 14 minutes (combined).
“Perhaps one day the source or sources will step forward and that might be an interesting moment some people may have egg on their faces”, Assange said.
In a June 12 interview with ITV, Assange said that he viewed Clinton as more risky than Trump, who he described as “completely unpredictable”.
Meanwhile, his most recent email release is still shaking up the DNC, as newly discovered messages reveal that attorneys from Perkins Coie LLP – a firm that represents both the DNC and Clinton’s campaign – advised the DNC on how it could fight off allegations from Sanders’ campaign that Clinton laundered campaign donations.
“This is not really good for bilateral relations”, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said.
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Assange appeared on CNN after the release of nearly 20,000 private DNC emails sparked the resignation of chairperson Debbie Wasserman Schulz, amid allegations she “rigged” the primaries for Clinton.
