WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange joined Sean Hannity on his radio show Thursday. Assange explined his comments that Hillary Clinton planned to put a "noose" around the necks of the American people.



"The Democrats are always talking about how horrible McCarthyism was. And it was in many ways. But at least the USSR actually existed then, and there were Russian agents on campaigns in the United States, which was seirous," he said. "What we see now is Hillary Clinton and her campaign trying to whip up a neo-McCarthyist hysteria. She claims effectively that Donald Trump and WikiLeaks are agents of the Russians, and her campaign has also implied that Jill Stein, the Green Party leader and The intercept, a U.S. pubication, are agents of the Russians."



"So what do we have here? Let us look at it objectively. We have the ruling party's preferred successor running around calling the opposition leader, in fact multiple opposition leaders and the critical press foreign agents. Terrible climate to permit. What kind of press climate is going to exist afterwards? Especially if Hillary Clinton is elected."



"It will seem to be a validation of that hysteria. And so the press afterwards will be cracked down upon, and online publishers and people on social media. It will lead to a very harsh claimte where the first amendment will be eroded."



"We have tens of thousands, possibly as many as a hundred thousand, pages of documents of different types, related to the operations that Hillary Clinton is associated with,” he also said. "There are some, several … in response to the DNC publications, a lot of people have been inspired by the impact, and so they have stepped forward with additional material."



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