Julian Assange Instructs His Lawyers To SUE The Guardian For Libel

If you’re not familiar with the Manafort/Assange story, you can catch up here and here. Long story short, the Guardian published a story, accusing Manafort of secretly meeting with the WikiLeaks founder around the same time he joined Trump’s campaign.

WikiLeaks denies this, as does Manafort.

Paul Manafort statement sent out just now by spokesman Jason Maloni. pic.twitter.com/F09GwMEC2V

— Christopher Miller (@ChristopherJM) November 27, 2018

Remember this day when the Guardian permitted a serial fabricator to totally destroy the paper's reputation. @WikiLeaks is willing to bet the Guardian a million dollars and its editor's head that Manafort never met Assange. https://t.co/R2Qn6rLQjn

— WikiLeaks (@wikileaks) November 27, 2018

This is going to be one of the most infamous news disasters since Stern published the "Hitler Diaries".

— WikiLeaks (@wikileaks) November 27, 2018

Ninety minutes after publication the Guardian modifies its "Manafort held secret talks with Assange" headline to add ", sources say". pic.twitter.com/zcg8cQcYGq

— WikiLeaks (@wikileaks) November 27, 2018

@KathViner We're going to charge 10% interest, compounding, on the $1.000.000 and publish a new figure every week until the Guardian pays up and you resign. pic.twitter.com/gctUS32Hl2

— WikiLeaks (@wikileaks) November 27, 2018

We have another update. Assange has instructed his lawyers to sue the Guardian for libel.

BREAKING: @WikiLeaks publisher Julian Assange has instructed his lawyers to sue the Guardian for libel over fabricated Manafort story and launched a legal fund to boost the action https://t.co/VaoMESN5RO

— WikiLeaks (@wikileaks) November 27, 2018

The saga continues…