by Reuters and Israel Hayom Staff
WikiLeaks releases document quoting Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton seeking to "drone" its founder Julian Assange • Latest polls find Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton leading by 5-6% nationwide, ahead in most swing states.
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange pushed back
the expected release of information about Democratic presidential
nominee Hillary Clinton at a video press conference on Tuesday, assuring
viewers that content relevant to the U.S. presidential race would come
out by Election Day on Nov. 8.
He added that WikiLeaks plans to release
information weekly during the next 10 weeks leading up to Election Day.
Still, he denied the release was aimed at damaging Clinton.
"The material that WikiLeaks is going to
publish before the end of the year is of ... a very significant moment
in different directions, affecting three powerful organizations in three
different states as well as ... the U.S. election process," he said via
a video link at an event marking the group's 10th anniversary.
He said the material would focus on war,
weapons, oil, mass surveillance, the technology giant Google and the
U.S. election, but declined to give any details.
Prior to the press conference, WikiLeaks
published what appeared to be a transcript of a briefing in which
Clinton, during her role as U.S. secretary of state, is quoted as
asking, "Can't we just drone this guy?" in reference to Assange.
Clinton campaign spokesperson Robby Mook
declined comment on the issue, stating that WikiLeaks has "made a lot of
accusations in the past."
Meanwhile, The New York Times released pages
from Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump's 1995 tax records,
wherein he declared a $916 million loss, what the newspaper called "a
tax deduction so substantial it could have allowed him to legally avoid
paying any federal income taxes for up to 18 years."
Trump's campaign issued a response to the
publication, saying, "Mr. Trump is a highly skilled businessman who has a
fiduciary responsibility to his business, his family and his employees
to pay no more tax than legally required. That being said, Mr. Trump has
paid hundreds of millions of dollars in property taxes, sales and
excise taxes, real estate taxes, city taxes, state taxes, employee taxes
and federal taxes."
The statement added that "Mr. Trump knows the
tax code far better than anyone who has ever run for president and he is
the only one that knows how to fix it."
Former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani spoke to
CNN about the tax report, saying, "The reality is, this is part of our
tax code. The man's a genius. He knows how to operate the tax code to
the benefit of the people he's serving."
At a rally in Pennsylvania on Saturday night,
Trump alleged that Clinton "should be in prison" due to her use of a
private email server while serving as secretary of state.
At the same time, former U.S. President Bill
Clinton criticized Obamacare on Monday, calling the healthcare reform
"the craziest thing in the world."
"So you've got this crazy system where all of a
sudden 25 million more people have health care and then the people who
are out there busting it, sometimes 60 hours a week, wind up with their
premiums doubled and their coverage cut in half," he said, later dialing
down his criticism.
As Election Day draws nearer, recent CNN and
CBS polls find Clinton to have a 5% to 6% advantage over Trump. Clinton
was also found to be leading in seven out of a11 swing states.
Trump, for his part, is leading by 5 points in the important battleground state of Ohio.
Reuters and Israel Hayom Staff
Source: http://www.israelhayom.com/site/newsletter_article.php?id=36925
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