Texas Woman Poses As Sean Hannity, Dupes Julian Assange Into Offering Bombshell 'News'

"'I can't believe this is happening. I mean... I can. It's crazy. Nothing can be put past people,' Gilliam wrote to Assange after the latter had sent her a direct message promising compromising information on one of the Democratic senators.

'I'm exhausted from the whole night. What about you, though? You doing ok?'

'I'm happy as long as there is a fight!' Assange replied."

'I'm exhausted from the whole night. What about you, though? You doing ok?'

'I'm happy as long as there is a fight!' Assange replied."

Gilliam told Assange that she (still posing as Hannity) was with him in his quest and scheduled a call for 9 a.m. Eastern time in the morning.

"You can send me messages on other channels," Assange wrote his last message, before pointing out the identity of the subject of his new information.

"Have some news about Warner," he said.

Assange was reportedly referring to Mark Warner, the top Democrat on the Senate Intelligence Committee, who, less than 48 hours later, said that the committee had received bombshell "end-of-the-year document dumps" that "opened a lot of new questions" about Trump and Russia.

Was this the information that Julian Assange wanted to give Sean Hannity? We will perhaps never know, but one thing is certain: neither Assange, who claims to be the objective keeper of world's secrets, nor Sean Hannity, a journalist who regularly fans conspiracy theories and rails against the "deep state," emerged looking credible after this rather hilarious episode.