And he’ll be sharing them on Wednesday for reasons that aren’t entirely clear.
In 24h we will release 30 pages of our editor (Julian Assange)'s medical records as part 1 of our transparency challenge to Clinton & Trump.
— WikiLeaks (@wikileaks) September 13, 2016
In a lot of ways, this is par for the course for Assange this election season. There’s a hint of a noble mission—he just wants transparency!—that’s a mask for fairly naked attention-grabbing. The pox-on-both-their-houses stance could also be a way to rebut suspicion that Assange has become a full-blown Hillary Clinton conspiracy theorist—suspicion that Wikileaks fueled earlier this week by tweeting wild speculation about Clinton’s health.
In other Assange news, it was announced on Tuesday that he would be questioned in October regarding the rape allegation that has kept him holed up in the Ecuadorean embassy in London for the past six years.