Posted on 02/20/2020 11:29:07 AM PST by bitt
Former Rep. Dana Rohrabacher denied that he spoke with Julian Assange on behalf of President Trump about a pardon.
Assange, the founder of WikiLeaks, claimed Wednesday that he had been told by Rohrabacher that he could be pardoned by Trump if he stated that Russians were not connected to the hacking of the Democratic National Committee's emails. In a statement, Rohrabacher denied that he promised a pardon to Assange on behalf of Trump.
“At no time did I talk to President Trump about Julian Assange. Likewise, I was not directed by Trump or anyone else connected with him to meet with Julian Assange. I was on my own fact finding mission at personal expense to find out information I thought was important to our country,” Rohrabacher wrote. “I was shocked to find out that no other member of Congress had taken the time in their official or unofficial capacity to interview Julian Assange.”
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This story has been told about 7 different ways in the past 2 days.
Journalism is “whatever”.
This is like 6 kinds of stupid. Assange stopped just short of saying his contact was Seth Rich. And while the media has their nickers in a twist over the DNC link, the Podesta emails were just as bad. Oh what a short memory have we.
As far as I know, Rohrabacher is a good guy.
Rep. Dana Rohrabacher’s (R-Calif.) office confirmed he met with the then-28-year-old Russian [Maria Butina] at French eatery, Bistro Bis, in Washington, D.C., in February 2017.
-—— Trump campaign aide socialized with alleged Russian agent during 2016 campaign, The Hill, 08/03/18, Justin Wise, Posted on 8/3/2018, 9:57:42 PM by yesthatjallen
He had already been saying what he was aksed to say, and he hadn’t been charged with anything.
But, but, but MSN/Yahoo confirmed it!
BTTTT these journalists (LIARS) have no shame!! I think this is Trump and company trolling for the leakers catching them one at a time!!!
Assuange put up $50,000.00 REWARD for INFO on WHO KILLED SETH RICH!! WHY would he do that????/r
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