Glenn Greenwald Shocks With Explanation On Why Mainstream Media Is Ignoring Assange Trial

Well-known journalist Glenn Greenwald has once again sparked intense debate on the Left by refusing to conform to any level of group-think.

On Friday he mused about the ongoing Julian Assange extradition trial in London, offering an explanation as to why mainstream US media has seemingly dropped Assange from its radar, despite during the early years of the most bombshell WikiLeaks revelations working closely with Assange in terms of corroborating coverage.

Greenwald started with a tweet acknowledging that Assange's plight, which includes the possibility of being extradited to the United States where he faces certain life in prison, has received "little media attention" ultimately because it doesn't have an easy partisan angle.

"But another is that many liberals believe their political adversaries deserve to be in prison," Greenwald stated, going on the offensive.

And that's where the most famous founding journalist at The Intercept began going off on liberals' exaggeration of what Trump represents and how he came to power:

"If you start from the premise that Trump is a fascist dictator who has brought Nazi tyranny to the US, then it isn't that irrational to believe that anyone who helped empower Trump (which is how they see Assange) deserves to be imprisoned, hence the lack of concern about it," Greenwald said.

Essentially Greenwald is saying, 'no, Trump is not a Nazi' — and this flawed belief will only compound errors when it comes to other pressing issues such as Assange's fate.

Greenwald previously addressed the "authoritarian arguments" which claimed the WikiLeaks founder does not deserve journalistic protections.

Earlier this month President Trump shocked many national security state insiders by suggesting be might be open to pardoning Edward Snowden.

While the Assange case would no doubt be a much higher hurdle for Trump in terms of the 'deep state' fierce pushback that would be sure to follow any similar consideration, it remains a possibility, especially were to Trump take the White House again after November.

https://www.zerohedge.com/political/glenn-greenwald-shocks-explanation-why-mainstream-media-ignoring-assange-trial

Iraq War Hero and Triple Amputee Brian Kolfage Refutes SDNY Charges – NY Agents Abused Him Upon Arrest for Charges that Were Bogus

As we reported previously, there are many indications the recent indictment of Steve Bannon, Brian Kolfage and others by the SDNY smells of prosecutorial abuse.

Three weeks ago war hero and triple amputee Brian Kolfage was arrested for bogus charges related to his, Bannon’s and two other gentlemen’s efforts in building a wall on the Southern Border. The 15 New York USPIS agents who arrested him dragged him into their arrest vehicle with his one good arm!

The New York Post reported today on the arrest:

Kolfage claimed the feds sought to humiliate him during his Aug. 20 arrest.

He said that morning a squad of United States Postal Inspection Service agents ordered him out of bed and would not allow him to take his prosthetic limbs for the 90-minute drive to a Pensacola courthouse.

“How does a person with no legs get into a vehicle that’s not equipped for a wheelchair?” the former Air Force senior airman said. “I had to get on my butt and crawl up into it like a monkey with one arm and in the rain. My kids were watching. It was humiliating.”

Then the Post reported:

The feds further charged that Kolfage made the fraud a family affair, with his wife being paid by the non-profit for unspecified “media.”

“That never happened,” Kolfage told The Post of payments to his wife, Instagram influencer Ashley Kolfage.

He also denied spending We Build The Wall money on luxury items laid out in the indictment.

“I bought that boat a year before We Build The Wall,” Kolfage said. The 40-foot-foot motorboat, named Warfighter, made a July 4th appearance in a Trump Boat parade near Destin, Fla.

Kolfage says he gets $100,000 a year from the Department of Veterans Affairs for his combat related injuries and also does data work for fundraisers and political campaigns.

“I’m not living a lavish life by any freaking means,” Kolfage said, adding, “We are a good middle class family. Thank God I have a house that was given to me by the Gary Sinise Foundation.”

We contacted Kolfage and he claimed the SDNY was incorrect.

He claims he hasn’t done a material renovation to his house in years. The Gary Sinise Foundation built his home and covered the mortgage just like every home they build for severely wounded veterans.

Kolfage provided proof from home renovations on Instagram that the work was done in January and February 2018, long before the Go Fund Me account was set up for the Build the Wall project:

Kolfage says:

If anything my life was more “lavish” before the wall… didn’t take a single real vacation the entire time. Didn’t do anything major for my family. I worked my ass off for free the first year.

The SDNY is in a real embarrassing situation. They abused a triple amputee Iraq War hero and made him drag himself shamelessly into their arrest vehicle in the rain. They didn’t provide any accommodations for his disabilities received in the war. They did this in front of his family. They charged him with bogus crimes and now are likely facing a lawsuit for the abuse they caused this disabled hero.

The SDNY should be shut down and rebuilt from scratch.

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2020/09/exclusive-iraq-war-hero-triple-amputee-brian-kolfage-refutes-sdny-charges-ny-agents-abused-upon-arrest-charges-bogus/

'She is no different than her husband': Melania Trump's ex-best friend reveals secrets from the Trump White House

The former best friend and trusted advisor of Melania Trump has labelled the First Lady "complicit" and says she is no different than her husband, President Donald Trump, in an exclusive interview with 60 Minutes reporter Liam Bartlett.

Stephanie Winston Wolkoff is lifting the lid on her long term friendship with Melania Trump, revealing secrets from her time as a senior advisor to the First Lady and unusual details from the Trump's marriage.

"Melania had no-one. I was her friend for 15 years. I knew she was diving into a pool of sharks and I needed to have her back," Wolkoff tells 60 Minutes.

https://9now.nine.com.au/60-minutes/melania-trumps-ex-best-friend-reveals-secrets-from-the-trump-white-house/470e00ff-1637-4bc0-ba3e-aab10887ca1d