{"id":120908,"date":"2019-04-14T19:14:56","date_gmt":"2019-04-14T23:14:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=120908"},"modified":"2019-04-14T19:14:56","modified_gmt":"2019-04-14T23:14:56","slug":"ecuador-uk-us-plant-fake-story-about-assange-to-justify-arrest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=120908","title":{"rendered":"Ecuador, UK &#038; US Plant Fake Story About Assange to Justify Arrest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--more--><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/Screen-Shot-2019-04-14-at-1.55.18-PM.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-120876\" src=\"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/Screen-Shot-2019-04-14-at-1.55.18-PM.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"628\" height=\"798\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/Screen-Shot-2019-04-14-at-1.55.18-PM.png 628w, https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/Screen-Shot-2019-04-14-at-1.55.18-PM-236x300.png 236w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 628px) 100vw, 628px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h2>This photo got Julian Assange kicked out of Ecuadorian embassy<\/h2>\n<p>By Tamar Lapin<br \/>\nThe New York Post<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_13706206\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a class=\"post-image\" href=\"https:\/\/thenypost.files.wordpress.com\/2019\/04\/assange-3.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;strip=all\"><img class=\"size-nypost-inline-default wp-image-13706206 lazyloaded\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 300px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thenypost.files.wordpress.com\/2019\/04\/assange-3.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=300 300w, https:\/\/thenypost.files.wordpress.com\/2019\/04\/assange-3.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=640 640w, https:\/\/thenypost.files.wordpress.com\/2019\/04\/assange-3.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=683 683w, https:\/\/thenypost.files.wordpress.com\/2019\/04\/assange-3.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=600 600w\" alt=\"Ecuadorian President Lenin Moreno reclines in a luxury hotel bed with a large platter of lobster. Assange is accused of leaking this picture, causing an uproar\" width=\"300\" height=\"382\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/thenypost.files.wordpress.com\/2019\/04\/assange-3.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=300 300w, https:\/\/thenypost.files.wordpress.com\/2019\/04\/assange-3.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=640 640w, https:\/\/thenypost.files.wordpress.com\/2019\/04\/assange-3.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=683 683w, https:\/\/thenypost.files.wordpress.com\/2019\/04\/assange-3.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=600 600w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ecuadorian President Lenin Moreno reclines in a luxury hotel bed with a large platter of lobster.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>This is the photo that reportedly got Julian Assange\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2019\/04\/11\/julian-assange-arrested-after-hes-evicted-from-embassy\/\">kicked out of the Ecuadorian embassy<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The image shows Ecuadorian President Lenin Moreno in a gray t-shirt, smiling as he reclines in a luxury hotel bed with a large platter of lobster. The picture caused uproar in the South American country since it shows the president taking it easy as austerity measures were imposed on his people.<\/p>\n<p>It was part of a trove of damaging documents and photos that Moreno, 66,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2019\/04\/11\/ecuadorian-president-rips-julian-assange-as-a-spoiled-brat\/\">accused WikiLeaks of leaking<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The president reportedly finally decided to kick the WikiLeaks founder out of his country\u2019s embassy in London last week after getting wind of the plot to blackmail him with the documents.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe president is a very calm person,\u201d said a senior official, who was involved in the\u00a0embassy raid\u2019s coordination. \u201cBut when he gets angry he can be very determined.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em>With Post Wires<\/em><\/p>\n<p>___<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2019\/04\/14\/this-photo-got-julian-assange-kicked-out-of-ecuadorian-embassy\/\">https:\/\/nypost.com\/2019\/04\/14\/this-photo-got-julian-assange-kicked-out-of-ecuadorian-embassy\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-120908","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120908","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=120908"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120908\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=120908"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=120908"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=120908"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}