• Assangel is NOT a US citizen.
• Assange was NOT on US soil or under US jurisdiction when he committed any of the alleged crimes.
How is the USA able to charge him with breaking US law?
Does US law now extend to other countries?
Does everyone in Sweden now have to obey US law (because that is where the alleged crime took place)?
Should Brazil be able to charge a US citizen, who has never visited Brazil, with breaking Brazilian law? No. It’s absurd.
But now the US has charged an Australian citizen, who was not in the US, of breaking US law? It’s absurd.
“But now the US has charged an Australian citizen, who was not in the US, of breaking US law? It’s absurd.”
He is being extradited to the U.S. and therefore will be on U.S. soil to be charged for breaking U.S. law.