Trump should have pardoned him but apparently was talked out of doing so by deep stater Pompeo. I don’t see how the US even has jurisdiction over this, Assange is Australian and hasn’t ever even been in the US. This would be like a European country demanding the extradition of an American citizen for violating their hate speech laws, even if that American has never stepped foot in their countries or violated any American law. Prosecution of Assange is just so very wrong on numerous levels.
You are correct. I first thought Julian Assange was worthy of prosecution as I was ignorant of the law. For example, if a woman lay nude on a beach in Iran, they have some nice beaches, she would be arrested, tortured and worse and probably executed. If the same woman lay nude on a nudist beach in the USA or Europe does this give Iran the legal right to arrest and prosecute? Assange did not steal information by illegal acts. The information was given to him by those who did steal it. On a regular basis the New York Times publishes stolen information and it is legal, as it should be.
I do not approve of everything Julian Assange has done. What he has done in exposing perfidy and evil in European and USA governments is good, very good. He deserves to walk as a free man. He is not free because he is a danger to the Deep State of the USA and Western Europe. I am surprised he lives.
Assange is a hero; I fear he will die a martyr. I hope I am wrong.