If President Trump tweets that Assange should go to jail the democrats will take the opposite position. Then Trump can make the democrats defend him. Cut a deal with Assange to give up the goods on Hillary and the dnc and watch the dems twist in the wind.
We know from the metadata that the Podesta emails were not “hacked” because the dL rates were far too high to be over the internet. We know those files walked out on a thumb drive. Seth Rich was one person who could have done it and Assange all but admitted Rich was the source. Soooo...potentially what Assange could be tasked to do in a plea deal is admit, under Oath, that Rich was the guy and initiate a murder investigation into this that we all know will lead back to Hillary like a fuse. Potentially. With the Deep State trash still running the FBI and DOJ I seriously doubt this will happen but it is a “potential”. IOW, it’s a barometer on just who is running the country right now.