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Rohrabacher confirms he offered Trump pardon to Assange for proof Russia didn't hack DNC email
MSN News ^ | 2/20/20 | Michael Isikoff

Posted on 02/20/2020 8:21:36 AM PST by DoodleDawg

Former California Republican congressman Dana Rohrabacher confirmed in a new interview that during a three-hour meeting at the Ecuadorian Embassy in August 2017, he told Julian Assange he would get President Trump to give him a pardon if he turned over information proving the Russians had not been the source of internal Democratic National Committee emails published by WikiLeaks.

In a phone interview with Yahoo News, Rohrabacher said his goal during the meeting was to find proof for a widely debunked conspiracy theory: that WikiLeaks’ real source for the DNC emails was not Russian intelligence agents, as U.S. officials have since concluded, but former DNC staffer Seth Rich, who was murdered on the streets of Washington in July 2016 in what police believe was a botched robbery.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Editorial; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: ecuador; fakenews; michaelisikoff; rohrabacher; trump; trumppardons; trumprussia; wikileaks
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To: Pearls Before Swine

It wasn’t a hack that gathered the info given to Assange. It was a download.


81 posted on 02/20/2020 12:40:00 PM PST by Fledermaus (Q babbleAnon folks are weird.)
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To: Williams

Apparently the major media morons are ignoring the fact that Assange all but straight up said the DNC leak was Seth Rich. And they all went wild.


82 posted on 02/20/2020 1:05:37 PM PST by Jaded (Pope Francis? Not really a fan... miss the last guy who recognized how Islam spread... the sword.ag)
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To: DoodleDawg

I wish their minds would get made up!

http://freerepublic.com/focus/news/3818103/posts?page=1


83 posted on 02/20/2020 1:08:34 PM PST by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: Fledermaus

Sure, I’ve seen the analyses of the data rate. It was most likely downloaded to a local thumb drive, which boosts the Seth Rich theory.


84 posted on 02/20/2020 1:34:06 PM PST by Pearls Before Swine
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To: ding_dong_daddy_from_dumas

100%


85 posted on 02/20/2020 2:53:11 PM PST by Chode (Send bachelors and come heavily armed.)
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To: AuH2ORepublican

Is Rohrabacher stupid?


86 posted on 02/20/2020 4:12:49 PM PST by Impy (I have no virtue to signal.)
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To: DoodleDawg

Everyone knows Russia didn’t hack the DNC, so that is the only potential proof that Assange could offer and thus would merit immunity. Jeesh!


87 posted on 02/20/2020 4:19:20 PM PST by 9YearLurker
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To: Williams

While they twist all of this around, I believe Wikileaks never reveals its sources, but that Assange already said the source was not the Russians. He was being asked for evidence of his claim.


Finally someone says this. Assange might die before revealing his sources, he broke character hugely by immediately putting up huge support for Rich upon his murder. For Wikileaks, that was tantamount to proof (not legally of course).


88 posted on 02/20/2020 4:19:35 PM PST by Yaelle
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To: DoodleDawg

It would be worth it if he dropped the dime and outted who killed Seth Rich.


89 posted on 02/20/2020 4:21:26 PM PST by Vermont Lt
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To: Ann Archy

Yep.


90 posted on 02/20/2020 4:21:37 PM PST by Eagles6
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To: DoodleDawg
as U.S. officials have since concluded,

No, that was merely the claim of the DNC that has been echoed over and over and over and over and..........ad nauseum.

To this date, the DNC has refused to turn over the server for analysis........

91 posted on 02/20/2020 4:25:11 PM PST by Hot Tabasco (I want an impeachment pen)
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To: Impy

Probably, but maybe he’s just high.


92 posted on 02/20/2020 6:57:00 PM PST by AuH2ORepublican (If a politician won't protect innocent babies, what makes you think that he'll defend your rights?)
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To: Pearls Before Swine

Makes sense. Almost can’t believe the Dems would “take him out” but I’m not a coinincedent fan.


93 posted on 02/20/2020 8:29:59 PM PST by Fledermaus (Q babbleAnon folks are weird.)
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To: DoodleDawg

Rohrabacher didn’t have the authority to make such a promise.


94 posted on 02/21/2020 6:23:40 AM PST by LS ("Castles made of sand, fall in the sea . . . eventually" (Hendrix))
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To: LS
Rohrabacher didn’t have the authority to make such a promise.

No he didn't. And it appears that he certainly didn't discuss it with Trump ahead of time. But Assange's attorney didn't know that.

95 posted on 02/21/2020 6:25:50 AM PST by DoodleDawg
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To: DoodleDawg

That’s on him. Doesn’t relate to Trump.

Reminds me of Livingston in Paris, where he did not have authority to buy “the whole of it” (Louisiana) but did so anyway.


96 posted on 02/21/2020 6:28:15 AM PST by LS ("Castles made of sand, fall in the sea . . . eventually" (Hendrix))
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Old joke -- how can you tell when a lawyer's lying? His lips move.

97 posted on 02/25/2020 8:59:52 AM PST by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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