Henningsen: US, UK, Ecuador’s ‘Dirty Backroom Deals’ to Blame for Latest Threat to Assange

On Friday, reports suggested that WikiLeaks founder, Julian Assange, would be expelled from London’s Ecuadorian embassy “within hours to days.” This led to an international media storm, as the world waited for the near 7 year stand-off to reach a climatic end.

However, those fears have since been downplayed by Ecuadorian officials who released the following statement just hours ago:

In a statement, Ecuador’s Foreign Minister denies that it will expel Assange “imminently”. However he does not deny a plot to expel and twice references @WikiLeaks reporting on the #INApapers offshore corruption scandal engulfing the president.

— WikiLeaks (@wikileaks) April 6, 2019

21WIRE’s editor Patrick Henningsen spoke live to RT International on Friday April 5th at 2:00pm UK time, about the possible impending expulsion of Julian Assange from the Ecuadorian Embassy, and about the backroom deals’ which have been taking place between the primary stakeholders in this saga:

“If you look at the bigger context of this plus pressure put by Mike Pence on the Ecuadorian government which was last summer plus a 4.2 billion dollar IMF loan package that was awarded to Ecuador just last month’s in February – you put all these things together and it does look like there’s quite a few deals going on in the background, three-way deals, perhaps a backroom deal between the US the UK and the Ecuadorian government to basically deliver Julian Assange to the United States.”

Regarding what may or may not be going on behind the scenes shaping these events, or whether Ecuadorian president Lenín Moreno was really motivated by retribution against Assange over Ecuador’s recent INA scandal, or allegedly hacking’ his office and family’s personal accounts, Henningsen believes Moreno is using the same distract and deflect tactics which Washington has become infamous for throughout the Russiagate debacle:

“Look at the claims by Moreno. He’s accusing WikiLeaks of hacking. So this hacking accusation – does this sound familiar? We’ve heard this before… this is exactly what the United States has been waging on WikiLeaks in terms of accusations with regards to Russia Gate and so with very little evidence to sort of back it up. So it seems like the Ecuadorian government is getting PR cues from Washington … also the deflection of the issue on to WikiLeaks, on to Assange – when WikiLeaks hasn’t published anything, to anyone’s knowledge, on the INA scandal. So this deflection is also familiar. This is what Washington has done to sort of deflect from Hillary Clinton (scandals) for the last two years – by creating Russia gate and sort of putting Trump and the Muller investigation into motion.”

Watch the full news segment which aired live on Friday:

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