Trump offered to pardon Assange if denied Russia DNC hack

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   IslandBitesposted 5 years ago

   Trump offered Assange pardon if he denied Russian involvement in DNC email leak, lawyer alleges in court
   
   A London court on Wednesday heard claims from Julian Assange’s lawyer that President Trump offered to pardon the WikiLeaks founder if he said Russia was not behind the massive leak of Democratic party emails during the 2016 presidential campaign.
   
   Assange’s lawyer, Edward Fitzgerald, made the claims during a preliminary hearing at Westminster Magistrates’ Court ahead of an extradition hearing next week.
   
   Fitzgerald said that in August 2017, then-Republican Congressman Dana Rohrabacher visited Assange at the Ecuadorian embassy in London.
   
   The lawyer, Fitzgerald said, recounted "Mr. Rohrabacher going to see Mr. Assange and saying, on instructions from the president, he was offering a pardon or some other way out, if Mr. Assange ... said Russia had nothing to do with the DNC leaks."
   
   Do you think any of that could be true? Would anyone care? Ha.
   
   Btw, remember the McCarthy "joke"?

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      PrettyPantherposted 5 years agoin reply to this

      It seems exactly like what Trump and a lackey would do. Of course, Trump fans will find nothing wrong with it.

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         Randy Godwinposted 5 years agoin reply to this

         Indeed, such a criminal endeavor sounds exactly like Trump. Not surprising in the least!

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         MizBejabbersposted 5 years agoin reply to this

         Of course not! Anything to whitewash our orange man.

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            Randy Godwinposted 5 years agoin reply to this

            That's a very apt observation, Miz!

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   IslandBitesposted 5 years ago

   A good read...
   
   https://www.latimes.com/politics/la-pol … story.html
   
   *GOP tightens restrictions on Dana Rohrabacher’s subcommittee over Russia connections
   
   *According to multiple reports, Behrends helped organize a meeting last year during a committee trip to Russia in which high-level Russian officials gave Rohrabacher information to try to derail some U.S. sanctions against the country. Rohrabacher briefly considered holding a hearing to air the information. Some of the people who helped organize the meeting also met with President Trump’s son and campaign officials during the 2016 campaign.
   
   *Royce’s frustration with Rohrabacher apparently spiked after Rohrabacher traveled to London in August to meet with WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, who is living in asylum at the Ecuadorean embassy.
   
   Rohrabacher said the Australian fugitive “emphatically stated that the Russians were not involved” in the theft of Democratic National Committee emails during the 2016 presidential campaign even though numerous federal agencies have blamed Russia for the theft. Rohrabacher is trying to arrange a meeting with Trump to discuss a pardon for Assange in exchange for information about who stole the emails, but says he has been waylaid by White House Chief of Staff John Kelly.

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