RT | In the second excerpt from the John Pilger Special, to be
exclusively broadcast by RT on Saturday, courtesy of Dartmouth Films,
Julian Assange accuses Hillary Clinton of misleading Americans about the
true scope of Islamic State’s support from Washington’s Middle East
allies.
In a 2014 email made
public by Assange’s WikiLeaks last month, Hillary Clinton, who had
served as secretary of state until the year before, urges John Podesta,
then an advisor to Barack Obama, to “bring pressure” on Qatar and Saudi Arabia,
“which are providing clandestine financial and logistic support to ISIL
[Islamic State, IS, ISIS] and other radical Sunni groups.”
Pilger also questioned Assange over increasingly frequent accusations
from the Clinton camp, and Western media, that WikiLeaks is looking to
swing next week’s US presidential election in favor of Donald Trump –
perhaps at Russia’s behest.
But Assange dismissed the prospect of
Trump, who is behind in the polls, winning as unlikely – and not
necessarily due to his standing with the electorate.
“My
analysis is that Trump would not be permitted to win. Why do I say that?
Because he has had every establishment off his side. Trump does not
have one establishment, maybe with the exception of the Evangelicals, if
you can call them an establishment,” said Assange. “Banks,
intelligence, arms companies, foreign money, etc. are all united behind
Hillary Clinton. And the media as well. Media owners, and the
journalists themselves.”
