Julian Assange is fighting extradition to the United States. At a pre-extradition hearing in a British court today, one of his lawyers said that President Trump offered to pardon him. All he had to do is agree to help cover up Russia’s hacking of emails from the DNC.
The White House called the claim “a complete fabrication and a total lie.”
The lawyer, Edward Fitzgerald, said former Republican Rep. Dana Rohrabacher of California offered Mr. Assange the deal in 2017, the Daily Beast reported.
White House press secretary Stephanie Grisham dismissed the report about Mr. Trump offering a pardon to Mr. Assange.
“The president barely knows Dana Rohrabacher other than he’s an ex-congressman,” she said in a statement. “He’s never spoken to him on this subject or almost any subject. It is a complete fabrication and a total lie. This is probably another never-ending hoax and total lie from the DNC.”
Mr. Assange faces 18 charges, including conspiring to hack government computers and violating an espionage law.
The Wikileaks founder spent almost seven years hiding in the Ecuadorian embassy in London before he was kicked out last April.
This story sounds fantastical.
Breaking, at pre-trial hearing for Julian Assange a court has heard that he will be calling a witness who will allege he was offered a pardon by the US government, if he would say Russia was not involved in the leak of DNC documents during the 2006 election.
— James Doleman (@jamesdoleman) February 19, 2020
Julian Assange court appearance today- His lawyer mentioned a statement, that alleges former US Congressman Dana Rohrabacher visited Assange, saying he was there on behalf of the President, offering a pardon if JA would say Russia had nothing to do with DNC leaks. @SBSNews
— Ben Lewis (@benlewismedia) February 19, 2020
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This is bull! Forensic analysis of the data proved the DNC info was pulled locally, probably using a thumb-drive. Assange the same as admitted Seth Rich was his source by offering that reward. DWS was on scene right after Rich was found, why would that be? Why would she even care about Rich? Plus there was eye-witness report Rich was… Read more »
Absolutely correct How do we know this is pure crap? The DNC server was never hacked by Russia. The amount of data harvesting could not have been procured by hacking, WAS harvested by thumb drive. Seth Rich, infuriated by the robbery of Bernie’s candidacy, was the source of DNC data. And he paid dearly for that data. Other DNC info… Read more »
100% correct . Seth Rich was the one who got the documents into Wikileaks hands .
The DNC filed lawsuits both times to block Assange from testifying .
SFWhite,Judyann Joyner..you are both correct, it wasn’t a hack of the dnc server, William Binney(NSA) and his VIPS partners who all worked in the Government in Cyber security roles have all agreed it was a DOWNLOAD, the transfer speed was way too fast for a HACK!!!!!!!!
Wed January 4, 2017………….. WikiLeaks’ “Assange: Russia didn’t give us emails”………….why are his lawyers spouting this BS Pardon crap when 3 years ago he made that comment on Hannity?????
The FBI never obtained or provided a shred of evidence that Russia hacked the DNC.
Me thinks Julian is trying to cover his bases in case he is extradited. Get Democrats on his side by making claims against President Trump thinking the media will then claim he’s a great guy and any prosecution will be Trump trying to get back at him.