2012: Lady Gaga visits Julian Assange at the Ecuadorian embassy.

Since the Hillary email leaks the celebs have stopped calling.



The campaign to get Wikileaks founder Julian Assange out of the Ecuadorian Embassy in London and into a jail is building up steam. Ecuador’s president Lenin Moreno is now saying that Britain has provided sufficient guarantees that Assange won’t be extradited to face the death penalty, and that he should therefore leave the embassy.

AP: The comments were made in a recent radio interview, as reported by

“The road is clear for Mr. Assange to take the decision to leave,” Moreno said, referring to written assurances he said he had received from Britain.



Moreno didn’t say he would force Assange out, but said the activist’s legal team is considering its next steps.



Assange has been holed up in the Ecuadorian embassy since 2012, when he was granted asylum while facing allegations of sex crimes in Sweden that he said were a guise to extradite him to the U.S.



But his relations with his hosts have soured to the point that Moreno earlier this year cut off his access to the internet, purportedly for violating the terms of his asylum by speaking out on political matters.





Technically Assange is an Ecuadorian citizen after being granted citizenship by the previous president, but that can be removed as easily as it was given, and anyway is no defence.





The real problem for Assange is that when he entered the embassy in 2012 he was seen as a hero by the Left for exposing the secrets of the US military. In those days lots of big name celebs visited him.



With Noam Chomsky, December 2014

Jesse Jackson, August 2015

Michael Moore, June 2016

The Leftist media and Leftist rent-a-mobs were also at his service. Any attempt to evict and arrest him would have faced massive blowback in the media and could even have caused riots in central London.







But now all that has changed.





In the 2016 US Presidential Election, Wikileaks leaked thousands of embarrassing emails from the Hillary Clinton camp that greatly harmed her campaign. Some analysts believe this gave Trump the edge in that closely fought election. Ever since then the Left has cooled in its support for Assange.





Meanwhile, Trump, who benefited most from the leaks, can't afford to be grateful and pardon Assange, as that would align him with a so-called "enemy" of the US military. This would alienate the Neocons and cuckservatives in his party and be presented as ''unpatriotic." Rather than do that, Trump is happy to throw Assange under the bus for his own selfish political reasons.



