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That in turn would serve to badly undermine the ideological hope represented by the outgoing President Obama.

It would remove them as a witness, but also be in apparent revenge by the USA for Wikileaks meddling.

Wikileaks has had a large hand in the Trump victory, with some ascribe to Russian orchestration. Killing Assange would be doubly useful now.

The USA, reeling from the election, would be further injured if good-guy Obama’s administration had apparently had Wikileaks founder killed.