DAY 49: Donald Trump and Sean Spicer play dumb about WikiLeaks's data dump on the CIA

Two days after WikiLeaks published a data dump showing how the CIA spies on smarphones and even on internet-connected televisions, Donald Trump and Sean Spicer play dumb about it.

First, when a reporter asked Trump about the WikiLeaks data dump, Trump played didn't answer ans just played dumb:

.@PeterAlexander asks Trump about CIA document dump from Wikileaks

Trump did not respond. pic.twitter.com/KvqvEU2cwY

— Steve Kopack (@SteveKopack) March 9, 2017

Now let's see Sean Spicer's response when the press confronted him with the fact that during the presidential campaign Trump applauded WikiLeaks for publishing information that was damaging to Hillary Clinton, but now there's no such reaction. Spicer tried to weasel himself out of it by saying there's a "massive difference" between what WikiLeaks did to Hillary Clinton and what they did with the CIA dump. Of course! The difference is Trump has no problem with the Russian government helping him:

Trump said "I love Wikileaks!" during campaign. Does he feel same now?

Spicer: There's a "massive difference" between Clinton leaks & now pic.twitter.com/mpisFwNusg

— Steve Kopack (@SteveKopack) March 8, 2017

By the way; Trump did not throw a tantrum at all because of this leak despite the fact that he has been complaining about "illegal leaks" to the media for weeks. One speculation regarding this seemingly contradictory stand is this: because the WikiLeaks CIA dump helps Trump's claim that he was wiretapped by Barack Obama. The dump took place just when Trump was against the ropes by public opinion after he lied about Obama wiretapping him.

What's even more interesting is the fact that WikiLeaks redacted (which means ERASED) names and actual source code for the CIA's hacking and spying tools. WikiLeaks has NEVER done that. They always dump the information without editing and Julian Assange himself has dismissed complains by Edward Snowden that WikiLeaks is being reckless in their data dump methods.

So why the censorship this time? Perhaps because the point wasn't to truly expose the CIA (everybody sort of assumes the CIA spies on people anyway), but simply to help Trump with his lie against Barack Obama? After all, WikiLeaks has become a tool for the Russian government and a former Trump adviser admitted the Trump campaign had a direct backchannel to Wikileaks. That's something Julian Assange should explain. One thing is for sure, though: Trump does not appear even a little peeved because of this leak. Not even a little. But he has been complaining about leaks for weeks. What does that tell you? Exactly.