Real-life delirium: the link between Trump's son and Julian Assange

The game of mirrors - and espionage maneuvers - is even more astonishing with revelations from the WikiLeaks man and Trump's gang

Election in the United States, independence of Catalonia, plebiscite that gave the Brexit, far-left and far-right movements. There is a long list of manipulations hanging on Russia's spy service account.

The grandest, of course, is the attempted interference in the American presidential election, full of twists, some believable, other suspicions. The most recent revelations deserve to be unfolded:

Donald Trump Jr. came very close to "agreeing with the Russians" some kind of electoral strategy.

It received a highly suspicious emissary who wanted to open secrets about Hillary Clinton. Now spectacularly, The Atlantic magazine revealed that he exchanged emails with WikiLeaks, that is, with Julian Assange, during the presidential campaign and after his father's unexpected victory.

"I love WikiLeaks," he wrote in one.

FALLING IDOL

Across the globe and perhaps even out of it, Assange has been worshiped for years as the icon of transparency with the creation of WikiLeaks, the place where all the rotten could appear.

Self-exiled at the embassy of Ecuador in London, he receives exponents from the world left, but his total lack of appetite for revelations about Russia had already aroused suspicions even in the most gullible hearts. When the emails from the Democratic Party committee were circulated through WikiLeaks, gullible hearts were broken.

Now, the final blow. Assange, through WikiLeaks, spoke to Trump Jr. Don, to the intimates. Issues: To challenge the outcome of the election if Hillary won and fished invaluable information, such as Trump's income statement, which is still insensitive.

The interests of Vladimir Putin and the attitudes of Julian Assange are getting more and more coincident.

AUDACITY, ALWAYS

This is hard to believe: one of the emails from WikiLeaks suggests that Trump, then-president-elect, would suggest to Australia to send Julian Assange as the US ambassador.

Even by the standards of Assange, who is an Australian citizen, is a proposal of mind-boggling dimensions. He was the transmitter of secretive information, very compromising, about US military, diplomats and spies.

Just to remember: he is holed up at the Ecuadorian embassy not to be sent to Sweden, where he would be questioned about weird accusations of rape (one of the accusers said that he had unprotected sex with her while sleeping, in bed shared by mutual agreement).

One hour, Assange claims he can be extradited from Sweden to the United States and face up to the death penalty - total hallucination. Another, he plans to be an ambassador in the country that would execute him. Is it something in the food that famous chefs of London send out of sympathy for the embassy of Ecuador?

PLAGUE GOAT

All that concerns the manipulation of public opinion and suspicious contacts between American politicians and Russian agents is being investigated by the tough guy Robert Mueller, a former FBI director. She has already indicted three people from around Trump during the campaign for reasons not directly related to her.

Others will come. In the list, the next must be reserve general Michael Flynn, who has hidden contacts with Russia and Turkey before becoming Trump's brief National Security Adviser.

His son Trump Jr. and his son-in-law, Jared Kushner, will also have to give convincing explanations. Junior's contacts with WikiLeaks fatten the dossier.

DIRTY AND EVIL

The opaque world of espionage and the double play of disinformation campaigns form a dizzying combination. One example: the same company charged with lifting the Trump card with the Russians, serving the Democratic Party during the election campaign, also helped the Russians in another case of their interest in the United States.

Another example: Tony Podesta moved away from his Washington lobby company as soon as Paul Manafort was indicted. Podesta and Manafort did exactly the same thing: they served Ukrainian politicians in line with Moscow's interests.

Manafort directed, for a short time, the campaign of Trump. John Podesta, Tony's brother, was Hillary Clinton's campaign chief. Your emails have been leaked by WikiLeaks. There is widespread belief that the original source came from Moscow.

And there is one more detail circulating in the specialized media: the Russians are planting the idea that there are many intimate videos of Trump. Some seem fake, like the one quoted in the dossier that mentioned unorthodox acts in a Moscow hotel. Others may be true. All, of course, are dirty.

Donald Trump, Julian Assange, and Vladimir Putin acting together, each with their own interests and convinced that they are masters of manipulation, suggest a world of conspiracy in which the greatest adherents of conspiracy seem innocent toads.

For those who like puzzles, everything becomes more and more interesting.