I believe that Assange stated that the DNC “hacking” was a LEAK, not a hacking by the Russians, right after it was first made public that something had occurred, like even before DWS resigned. It was the MSM that took the Russian hacking meme to the level of having it be the accepted “truth”.
Now the MSM (not that they would attempt to correct themselves) would have to unwind many hours of broadcast scripts, in order to attempt to get to the truth.
That is correct. Assange says Clinton/Media deliberately conflating a batch of hacked material released by other outlets with the pristine Wikileak material.
The batch not related to Wikileaks is the one that had supposedly Russian metadata — not the Wikileaks batch.
Wikileaks batch was a leak, according to Assange. Possibly Seth Rich.