US President Donald Trump has claimed to "know nothing about WikiLeaks" despite past praise for the anti-secrecy organisation during his presidential campaign.
Trump praised WikiLeaks more than 100 times during his presidential run in 2016, particularly for their leaking leaking of his opposition, Hillary Clintons, private emails. When the president was asked about the arrest made on thursday he claims to have known very little on the subject.
Assange’s expulsion from the embassy has drawn criticism from former ex-President Rafael Correa who felt targeting ASsange was ‘attacking the weakest link’ of the media supply chain.