Two points:
1. I think Assange has said bad, unwoke things. He's got well-documented issues with women, trans people and feminism. I also think, given the nature of his work and his current arbitrary detention in the Ecuadorian embassy that he's attempted to play an opportunist political game to curry favor with anyone who might help him get free. It's not surprising that he's made overtures to the US right wing when liberals want him hanged. Over the course of his public life from the time he was free, to several years in captivity (PLEASE watch his 2012 TV series The World Tomorrow), I think he's generally been on the progressive side of most issues.
2. The idea that Assange or Wikileaks are "tools of russia" is total conspiracy theory, approaching Alex Jones territory. If the Russian GRU, under the guise of Guccifer 2.0 actually were the source of the DNC emails (and I don't have a big objection to that idea), WL did the right thing by releasing the material. If Guccifer gave the emails to the NYT, and the NYT didn't release them, it would be an unbelievable failure of journalism. Not saying WL's approach to dumping the entire archive was the best way to go, but any outlet worth consideration would have published stories from that material. To say WL are tools of Russia, you'd have to show some deeper collaboration, and it hasn't been shown by the Mueller investigation or anywhere else.
