# OK. There’s a pretty big gap between scheduling the announcement of a leak
to maximize press (and…

Why would a collection of mostly european anarchists want a Trump presidency?
I don’t see any traces of accelerationist rhetoric going on…

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OK. There’s a pretty big gap between scheduling the announcement of a leak to
maximize press (and thus maximize donations to your non-profit organization)
and trying to manipulate the election of a foreign country in favor of your
ideological enemy, though.

Why would a collection of mostly european anarchists want a Trump presidency?
I don’t see any traces of accelerationist rhetoric going on; if anything,
Wikileaks appears to take the attitude that transparency in general will
improve governance, rather than the idea that discrediting the idea of
government in general is desirable. Julian Assange is not Nick Land; his
outlook is a lot more utopian.

By [John Ohno](https://medium.com/@enkiv2) on [August 24,
2016](https://medium.com/p/2aaea02a590f).

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between-scheduling-the-announcement-of-a-leak-to-maximize-press-
and-2aaea02a590f)

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