Julian Assange says that Hillary Clinton is committing …

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WikiLeaks editor Julian Assange spoke during a live feed, prior to the Green Party nomination of Jill Stein.

Assange claims that Hillary is trying to "extort" votes from left-wing voters, by using the possibility of a Republican victory as fuel to scare them into voting for her instead as the lesser evil.

What the Clinton campaign is doing at the moment is trying to say, Well, OK, yes, maybe were committed to arms dealers and to Saudi Arabia, and yes, maybe we subverted the integrity of the Democratic primary, etc., etc., but youll just have to swallow that, youll just have to swallow that or else youll get Donald Trump, he said.

He told voters to vote based on their principals, rather than out of a desire to put the "lesser of two evils" in office by voting for Hillary.

Assange also said the following: Theres a cost to violating principles even if theres a cost to yourself, even if you dont like the risk, which seems to be getting very small, the risk that Donald Trump becomes president.

It is interesting that Assange is getting involved at this level, and I find it interesting that the Green Party chose him as a speaker, considering the things WikiLeaks has done in the past few years contrary to the interests of the US.

The Green Party appears to be going after Sanders voters that refused to switch to Hillary even after his endorsement of her, according to the article.

Extort may be a strong word, since many political campaigns resort to telling you how much the other guy will screw things up if they are elected already, but many people are using how bad they think the other guy will be in this election, with people against Trump saying that he would be too incompetent to run the country (among other things) and people against Hillary saying that she can't be trusted with sensitive information or that she will be too soft on potential terrorists.

Do you agree with Assange's claim that Hillary Clinton is trying to extort her way to a victory, or do you think that Assange is inaccurate in his statements?

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