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“Trump doesn't have one establishment, maybe with the exception of the Evangelicals, if you can call them an establishment, but banks, intelligence agencies, arms companies, big foreign money, are all united behind Hillary Clinton, and the media as well, media owners and even journalists themselves.”

Quote by Julian Assange

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Julian Assange is an Australian journalist and activist, renowned for founding WikiLeaks, a platform that allows anonymous uploaders to share sensitive or confidential documents. He was born on July 3, 1971. more

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