1. This might be relevant: in a March 2016 speech at the Berlin Logan CIJ Symposium, Appelbaum jokes that he, quote, "just committed journalistic career suicide" when he blasted the Guardian for being controlled by the British government and lacking journalistic integrity:
2. Jacob Appelbaum at the Berlin Logan CIJ Symposium: "Your politics are in everything that you write"
3. Did you catch how salty he is about not being "treated like an equal"? How enraged he is about not being given credit for the story that won the Pulitzer? The self-righteous fury that he and Assange "were left out to dry?" Watch the facial expressions of the other people on stage.
4. Three months later, he's cast out of the community.
5. Gee, you think...?
6. Isn't it odd that everyone put up with his credit-stealing narcissistic community-college-dropout rapist ass for years without saying a fucking thing? Until now?
7. Main takeaway: Jacob Appelbaum was a useful idiot who's not useful anymore.
8. Oh well, just a thought.