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Assange is a rapist that works for Russian intelligence. Notice how he has never once published anything that puts Russia or US Republicans in bad light
He's so smart that he fled a country that doesn't extradite to the US (Sweden) to a country that does (UK)
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Do you have any source for that?
What do you want to say? Even if we assume that's true (I don't, but let's ignore that for now), what does that mean? If someone never published something that puts X in bad light, are they all spies for X then?
I don't think that is true. With regard to Russia: https://wikileaks.org/spyfiles/russia/. Wikileaks started publishing stuff about the US during the Bush presidency, and continued into Trump. I think the main factor would have been what was available to them, in terms of leaks not already exposed elsewhere. Certainly the evidence suggests they published leaks provided them to by what is likely a state (Russian) sponsored group, and that formed part of a broader pattern by that state in interfering in the US's elections, but that is not to say they wouldn't have published unreleased leaks in the same circumstances if they had them about another political party.
Sweden has an extradition treaty with the US: https://www.state.gov/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/10-201.22-Sweden-EU-Extradition-Treaty.pdf
There has certainly been a smear campaign (psyop?) against Assange to mislead people into hating him - and reading things like your comment I think it may have been quite successful, at least with Americans.