Wikileaks founder Julian Assange’s release from a British prison could not have made Russia’s top propagandists happier.
RT editor-in-chief Margarita Simonyan led the pack early Tuesday with a statement on Telegram paying tribute to the “best journalist of our time.” Noting that she was “awfully happy” to finally see Assange win his freedom, she recalled a one-on-one covert chat she said she had with him once in the “woods outside London.” After asking him why he chose to publish a trove of classified U.S. military intel knowing that he would be “hunted down, corralled, destroyed” as a result, she said, Assange responded, “I just can’t stand being lied to.”
“Today, he is free for the first time in years. Almost free,” Simonyan wrote.
