You believe Isikooff?
That's newspeak for: It really did happen.
Yes, Rohrbacher saying he’d ask Trump to give him a pardon is not nearly the same thing as Trump saying he’d grant a pardon.
Either Rohrbacher was teasing Assange to prove a negative (that the Russians had done the hack) or suborning perjury (manufacture proof for a pardon).
Odd.
I would think that if he had believed him, he would have jumped at the offer. So what makes you think he believed him?
This is a nothing burger. He never discussed it with Trump and when he floated the idea to John Kelly, the response was to prevent him from having contact with the President.
Which is different in multiple ways.
Trump offered nothing.
There was no discussion of "covering up".
Rohrbacher was apparently making an effort to confirm that Seth Rich was the guy who gave Wikileaks the info. A perfectly good thing to investigate.
Yes indeed - “widely debunked” = True.
Please note the article says that he wanted actual information, not a made up story. There is nothing wrong with that. Whether or not it’s wrong to say he would then work to get Assange a pardon is another question, but he certainly had the right to say it in a conversation.
I recall that many people were calling on Trump or sessions to pardon Assange for information on hack and that the answer was no, either by silence or by explicit no. Perhaps memory is faulty.
the story yesterday was Trump offered the pardon...
Here we go with impeachment 3.0.
So the REAL story of Assange and a pardon from Trump is that a DEMOCRAT offered the pardon in exchange for Assange claiming that it wasn’t the Russians who hacked the DNC’s computers. That is a significant change from what The Hill was spouting yesterday.
“Rohrabacher confirms he offered Trump pardon to Assange for proof Russia didn’t hack DNC email”
This is much different than the headline yesterday that that screamed Trump wanted Assange to lie about Russian the hack.
Why was this not quid pro quo?
Rohrabacher’s statement was crystal-clear, he made the offer knowing that Trump was totally unaware of it and that he’d have to convince him to actually issue the pardon if he brought back the information. That wasn’t very smart maybe, but it was Roharbacher’s doing.
They don’t need Assange if they’re just confirm what Bill Binney has said for years, that the DNC server info could only have come from a direct transfer, not a “hack”.
Yesterday I saw articles that claimed he never offered a pardon. One day he did...the next day he didn’t? No wonder no one believes the media anymore. They can’t get their stories straight.
I can imagine that conversation taking place.
It’s way different than the current narrative, which is “Trump offered a pardon to Assange if he would LIE about Russia.”
He didn’t say there would be a pardon. He said he’d approach the president for a pardon. He said Trump didn’t know a thing about it.