Exactly - AH tape was released to overshadow WikiLeaks, not vice versa. There are so many details like this from election '16, sometimes I forget all of them!

In 2016 he spilled it.

https://tweetsave.com/julianassange/status/919779725475766273 :

Julian Assange 🔹 on Twitter: "On Clinton's "timing" conspiracy theory. That we had a pending publication about to launch on the election was everywhere in the media for d… t.co/zkzdUjkZhy"

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http://m.tmz.com/#article/2016/10/12/nbc-trump-tape-billy-bush-plan-election-debate/ NBC execs had a plan to time the release of the Donald Trump audio to have maximum impact on both the 2nd presidential debate and the general election ... sources connected with the network tell TMZ.

Multiple sources connected with NBC tell us ... top network execs knew about the video long before they publicly said they did, but wanted to hold it because it was too early in the election. The sources say many NBC execs have open disdain for Trump and their plan was to roll out the tape 48 hours before the debate so it would dominate the news cycle leading up to the face-off.

As we reported, Billy Bush was bragging about the tape -- in front of NBC execs at the Rio Olympics -- in early August. NBC says it's only known about the tape for a little more than a week.

We're told the plan was to edit the tape to keep the focus on Trump and not Billy. "Access Hollywood" we're told was not going to air the portion where Trump and Billy got off the bus and Billy goaded Trump and the soap star to hug. Our sources say the tape was going to be "sanitized" to protect Billy as much as possible.

Case in point ... after The Washington Post ran the story, 'Access' aired their footage and cut out the parts where Billy looked worse -- saying things like, "Jeez! Your girl's hot as s*** in the purple!"

HRC ordered drone strikes on Assange https://twitter.com/thomas1774paine/status/919781645296787456