The main issue with Assange deals with the Clinton emails detailing with the 2016 campaign. This emails that came out right before the election sealed the deal for President Trump in the Democrats eyes. He would never get a fair trial today. Those emails came from Seth Rich on a thumb drive. At some point Assange will come back to the U.S. and lay he whammy to the Deep State in a military tribunal.
The high-profile WikiLeaks founder is wanted in the US to face 17 charges under the Espionage Act and conspiracy to commit computer intrusion after the publication of hundreds of thousands of classified documents in 2010 and 2011.
They dont want him for the emails ... they want him for the Iraq stuff Manning allegedly uploaded.