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Lawyer: Assange was offered US pardon if he cleared Russia
AP News ^ | February 19, 2020 | Staff

Posted on 02/20/2020 5:02:19 PM PST by Twotone

LONDON (AP) — WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange plans to claim during an extradition hearing that the Trump administration offered him a pardon if he agreed to say Russia was not involved in leaking Democratic National Committee emails during the 2016 U.S. election campaign, a lawyer for Assange said Wednesday.

Assange is being held at a British prison while fighting extradition to the United States on spying charges. His full court hearing is due to begin next week.

At a preliminary hearing held in London, lawyer Edward Fitzgerald said now-former Republican congressman, Dana Rohrabacher, visited Assange at the Ecuadorian Embassy in London in August 2017.

Fitzgerald said a statement from another Assange lawyer, Jennifer Robinson, 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.”

Responding to the the lawyer’s claims, White House press secretary Stephanie Grisham said, “This is absolutely and completely false.”

President Donald Trump “barely knows Dana Rohrabacher other than he’s an ex-congressman. He’s never spoken to him on this subject or almost any subject,” Grisham said. “It is a complete fabrication and a total lie. This is probably another never-ending hoax and total lie from the DNC.”

Emails embarrassing for the Democrats and Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign were hacked before being published by WikiLeaks in 2016.

(Excerpt) Read more at apnews.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: again; deal; fakenews; julianassange; sethrich
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To: Twotone

I don’t believe this for a nano-second. Assaunge would have accepted it that quick also.


21 posted on 02/20/2020 5:19:09 PM PST by BipolarBob (I asked my cat who his favorite socialist was. He looked at me and said Mao.)
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To: Bommer

He was never impeached, or “convicted in the House,” as you call it.


22 posted on 02/20/2020 5:19:53 PM PST by nickcarraway
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To: nickcarraway

So the DNC emails contained classified information, and you are fine with their treason?


23 posted on 02/20/2020 5:20:36 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum (If you don't recognize that as sarcasm you are dumber than a bag of hammers.)
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To: Twotone

“a lawyer for Assange said”


24 posted on 02/20/2020 5:20:56 PM PST by McGruff
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To: Twotone
Rohrabacher may have been trying to broker some kind of deal and saying what would get him access to Assange.

I don't seriously think any president could pardon Assange in return for information like that, but Rohrabacher wants to feel important and get into the newspapers again and making a deal may have seemed like a good way to do that.

25 posted on 02/20/2020 5:21:18 PM PST by x
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

LOL. I never said anything about the DNC. I merely said I don’t trust someone who attacked my country. Do you speak English?


26 posted on 02/20/2020 5:22:06 PM PST by nickcarraway
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To: nickcarraway

Evidently you can’t even read.


27 posted on 02/20/2020 5:22:48 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum (If you don't recognize that as sarcasm you are dumber than a bag of hammers.)
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To: Twotone
Doesn't make any sense at all.

Bet Guiliani spewed when he heard this...Rudy will take him down.

28 posted on 02/20/2020 5:28:04 PM PST by Sacajaweau
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To: E. Pluribus Unum
Point out anything I read incorrectly. I said I don't trust Assange. I never said anything about Russia collusion or the DNC.

Meanwhile you are supporting a man who stole the most massive cache of U.S. data ever, and got Americans killed. He used a transgender Army private who was a traitor to his country.

And by the way, you have no idea if Assange was working for the Russians and created the whole collusion story.

But you insist on defending and trusting an enemy of the United States.

29 posted on 02/20/2020 5:28:32 PM PST by nickcarraway
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To: nickcarraway

Yes...And Bubba was “pardoned” 10 minutes before he left office on his final day.


30 posted on 02/20/2020 5:29:48 PM PST by Sacajaweau
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To: Twotone

FAKE NEWS... DNC wishful thinking to keep impeachment hoax alive.

Common are you really going to believe the liars in the Fake Stream News? All they do is lie and deceive.

There is no transcript from the court case confirming this.


31 posted on 02/20/2020 5:31:05 PM PST by Enlightened1
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To: Twotone

When all else fails, go back to “Russia, Russia, Russia.”

Now there’s a winning strategy for sure! Go go, girl!


32 posted on 02/20/2020 5:31:07 PM PST by KosmicKitty
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To: Sacajaweau

I don’t think anyone has pardoned themselves, but I am sure e thought about it. He wanted to have pardon Milken, but he left that for someone else.


33 posted on 02/20/2020 5:31:08 PM PST by nickcarraway
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To: nickcarraway

Show me where I said I was supporting him?

I dare you.

You are such a seedy character.


34 posted on 02/20/2020 5:31:38 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum (If you don't recognize that as sarcasm you are dumber than a bag of hammers.)
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To: Twotone

If this was real, then we would have heard it from day 1.

Totally FAKE NEWS


35 posted on 02/20/2020 5:31:58 PM PST by Enlightened1
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To: Twotone

This is poppycock:

“”Fitzgerald said a statement from another Assange lawyer, Jennifer Robinson, 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.”“


36 posted on 02/20/2020 5:34:33 PM PST by jacknhoo (Luke 12:51; Think ye, that I am come to give peace on earth? I tell you, no; but separation.)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum
LOL What were all your responses about? You attacked me for the sole "crime" of saying Assange is untrustworthy. I would call that supporting him, wouldn't you?

Basically you are angry at me and calling me for supporting the United States? That's what you define as seedy? Show me what else I did comrade.

37 posted on 02/20/2020 5:34:51 PM PST by nickcarraway
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To: nickcarraway

I checked your history. You’re just a narcissistic troll who makes up excuses to get righteously indignant.

Carry on.


38 posted on 02/20/2020 5:36:59 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum (If you don't recognize that as sarcasm you are dumber than a bag of hammers.)
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To: Twotone

Good ol AP. Started going downhill in the 60’s when left wing groups helped create AP style sheets (back when “unborn baby” morphed into “fetus” in all AP reporting in order to please left wing groups who were given the right of edit/review before publishing() to cram left wing thought into the minds of an unsuspecting population. Now look what they’ve become. A total joke.


39 posted on 02/20/2020 5:37:06 PM PST by Sir Bangaz Cracka (wHAT A HOT STEAMING LOAD.)
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To: Twotone
"lawyer for Assange said Wednesday"

Well there you have it. Lawyers never lie.

40 posted on 02/20/2020 5:38:10 PM PST by Karl Spooner
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