The United States Government has used every weapon in it's arsenal when it comes to smearing/attacking Julian Assange. To this very day there are armies of bots that swarm anybody that is highly visible in social media and who protest against the unlawful (under International Laws) apprehension and detention of Assange. The only people I see who are laughing and yucking it up over Assange are shitty people on TV who have been clearly co-opted by the ignorant lies spread by bad actors of the Deep State. If Julian Assange ends up in America by extradition, it's likely that he will be dead very quickly. This would be a very bad thing for the world in general due to the fact that Assange IS a publisher/journalist and it seems very clear that all that he is guilty of is sharing information with the general public that the Deep State did not want to be revealed. It is for that reason alone that he is being persecuted in this fashion... To serve as a warning to anybody who might want to follow in this trailblazer's path.