It can be difficult to separate Assange as a person from his work, and harder still (if not impossible) from where we stand to figure out where the propaganda ends and the truth begins regarding his own personal failings as a human being.

All I know is that as a matter of both legal technicality and of objective truth the United states empire is not pursuing him because he may in fact be a POS rapist. Julian Assange the person effectively doesn't matter here as much as what the idea that he and Wikileaks represent.