Posted on 02/19/2020 10:52:09 AM PST by rightwingintelligentsia
LONDON—A lawyer for Julian Assange has claimed in court that President Trump offered to pardon Assange if the WikiLeaks founder agreed to help cover up Russia’s involvement in hacking emails from the Democratic National Committee.
Assange’s lawyers said on Wednesday that former Republican congressman Dana Rohrabacher offered Assange the deal in 2017, a year after emails that damaged Hillary Clinton in the presidential race had been published. WikiLeaks posted the stolen DNC emails after they were hacked by Russian operatives.
The claim that Rohrabacher acted as an emissary for the White House came during a pre-extradition hearing in London.
Assange has argued that he should not be extradited to the U.S. because the American case against him is politically motivated. He spent almost seven years hiding in the Ecuadorian embassy in Central London claiming that he would be jailed in the U.S. if he wasn’t granted asylum. He was kicked out of the embassy last year.
His lawyers told the court that Trump’s alleged offer to pardon Assange proved that this was no ordinary criminal investigation.
Edward Fitzgerald, who was representing Assange in court, said he had evidence that a quid pro quo was put to Assange by Rohrabacher, who was known as Putin’s favorite congressman.
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So Nancy has her rationale to open Impeachment 2.0
Yawn. I wonder what the opening lines are for the XFL this weekend?
Already reported in the Daily Mail as true. But they are anti US anti Trump.
Oy, vey...
Oh brother. More BS.
Two words:
Seth.
Rich.
Damn! I hope I don’t lose any sleep over this tonight.
“...Rohrabacher acted as an emissary for the White House...”
LOLOLOLOLOL
False testimony or fake news. No hacker could have remained connected for more than a month to download that much data. It had to be copied directly from the server.
Yeah - this is BS to take advantage of a current narrative
I don’t buy it.
Rohrabacher, who was known as Putin’s favorite congressman..
Is the BEAST right, left or neither?
Putin has a favorite congressman? Who knew?
Do they exchange cards and gifts and go out to dinner regularly?
This smells like CIA disinformation.
I'll need to see evidence that any "hacking" occurred.
As I understand it, the timeline is pretty well established and it happened very quick -- had to be an inside job downloading files to a flash drive (Seth Rich).
I'm so tired of this "stuff".
lol. Very desperate... It’s completely counter to logic for this to have occurred. Trust a known “leaker” with a deal that could be devastating if “leaked.” HA HA HA
They back off their own claim the second sentence into the article.
Why is Assange STILL covering up then? Hes always maintained it wasnt a Russian hack that exposed the emails, wasnt it?
Sounds like payback for Trump not pardoning Assange to me.
I think if Democrats want to hear what Assange has to say, Trump would be all for it! They don’t realize he will confirm “The Server” was never hacked by the Russians, because he got the emails from Seth Rich on a thumb drive.
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