Posted on 02/20/2020 5:02:19 PM PST by Twotone
LONDON (AP) — WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange plans to claim during an extradition hearing that the Trump administration offered him a pardon if he agreed to say Russia was not involved in leaking Democratic National Committee emails during the 2016 U.S. election campaign, a lawyer for Assange said Wednesday.
Assange is being held at a British prison while fighting extradition to the United States on spying charges. His full court hearing is due to begin next week.
At a preliminary hearing held in London, lawyer Edward Fitzgerald said now-former Republican congressman, Dana Rohrabacher, visited Assange at the Ecuadorian Embassy in London in August 2017.
Fitzgerald said a statement from another Assange lawyer, Jennifer Robinson, recounted “Mr. Rohrabacher going to see Mr. Assange and saying, on instructions from the president, he was offering a pardon or some other way out, if Mr. Assange ... said Russia had nothing to do with the DNC leaks.”
Responding to the the lawyer’s claims, White House press secretary Stephanie Grisham said, “This is absolutely and completely false.”
President Donald Trump “barely knows Dana Rohrabacher other than he’s an ex-congressman. He’s never spoken to him on this subject or almost any subject,” Grisham said. “It is a complete fabrication and a total lie. This is probably another never-ending hoax and total lie from the DNC.”
Emails embarrassing for the Democrats and Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign were hacked before being published by WikiLeaks in 2016.
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Why does espionage against this great country not bother you? Are you Chelsea Manning? That would make everything you say make sense.
Dana has already rebuked this FAKE NEWS!!! It was on a thread today!!!
Seth Rich.
Better known as Russia,Russia,Russia.
A lie circles the world twice before the truth has a chance to put its pants on.
Fake News again ...
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https://www.rohrabacher.com/news
Dana Rohrabacher - My Meeting with Julian Assange
2/19/2020
There is a lot of misinformation floating out there regarding my meeting with Julian Assange so let me provide some clarity on the matter:
At no time did I talk to President Trump about Julian Assange. Likewise, I was not directed by Trump or anyone else connected with him to meet with Julian Assange. I was on my own fact finding mission at personal expense to find out information I thought was important to our country. I was shocked to find out that no other member of Congress had taken the time in their official or unofficial capacity to interview Julian Assange. At no time did I offer Julian Assange anything from the President because I had not spoken with the President about this issue at all. However, when speaking with Julian Assange, I told him that if he could provide me information and evidence about who actually gave him the DNC emails, I would then call on President Trump to pardon him. At no time did I offer a deal made by the President, nor did I say I was representing the President. Upon my return, I spoke briefly with Gen. Kelly. I told him that Julian Assange would provide information about the purloined DNC emails in exchange for a pardon. No one followed up with me including Gen. Kelly and that was the last discussion I had on this subject with anyone representing Trump or in his Administration.
Even though I wasn’t successful in getting this message through to the President I still call on him to pardon Julian Assange, who is the true whistleblower of our time. Finally, we are all holding our breath waiting for an honest investigation into the murder of Seth Rich.
This story makes no sense. Why would Trump care if Russia or the man in the moon gave the emails to Wikileaks? He knew he had nothing to do with the Russia hoax from the beginning.
Its more likely that Assange volunteered to Rohrabacher that Russia was not the source of the emails to try extort a pardon from Trump. In any event Trump was not involved in any of this. I’m not sure where the left thinks this is going?
Wow, he even got the mention of Seth Rich in there. Nice.
the story has since changed today if you search FR- evidently the lawyer promised this to Assange, not anyone from the administration:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3818045/posts
Nixon wasn’t even impeached. ...He resigned before that happened.
People here are debating a story by the Asspress, which is written by “staff” instead of the usual four idiots?
Yep, poster Jayster is correct, which means you are incorrect. 8>)
Right on!
Seems like an incredible leap of logic to me.
If Assange really is the Russian agent the Democrats, and our DOJ say he is why would the believe him?
Notice how all these bad-news stories involve lawyers.
Would you ever trust Assange’s lawyer(s)? As for me, not in my life-time!
Prove it wasn’t the Russians and you might get a pardon.
Somebody needs to explain that to Gerald Ford.
Fox had a story that says it not only ever happened, but that it was the Assange team that came to some of our folks and offered to tell the truth (that Russia wasn’t the DNC hacker) if they could secure a pardon for him - these stories have it ass-backwards...and Kelly and them never took any action....
Ironic that bring this latest smear attempt out can do Assange no good - he needs to fire (an AK47 at) his lawyers
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