It’s called leverage. Implemented by a master.
How exactly does an Australian national wanted on rape charges in Sweden, living in the Ecuadorian embassy in Great Britain get a pardon from a US president?
YES!!
Assange is not a U.S. citizen. He has never been arrested in the U.S. He has never been indicted in the U.S. Pardon him for what?
I suggest a negotiated plea agreement on US espionage charges.
Wikileaks needs to acknowledge that there is a line beyond which the US does indeed have a legitimate need to protect our military secrets for our own national security.
If they are willing to do that, then perhaps there is a way forward in negotiation.
Like 99.5% of the fictional crap the enemedia's been complicit in over here, those Swedish charges sound much too 'convenient'.
Isn’t Julian wanted by FBI or CIA or some thing in the USA?
If the Nobel Committee were not corrupt, he would receive a Nobel Prize.
...and give him the Medal of Freedom! He helped the USA dodge a fatal political bullet.
I’ll believe it when I hear Trump say it.
Wow! Trump can pardon crimes committed in Sweden? He is the man!
How does Soros, who’s been convicted in France, and (I think) wanted elsewhere, manage to stay in the USA?
IF Obama pardons Clinton, Trump definitely should pardon the general recently convicted of releasing a minor classified document, and that enlisted man doing time for photographing his bunk in a submarine.
I’m sorry, but Wikileaks still disseminated the Bradley Manning information which harmed the national interests of the USA. Not feeling the affection for Assange at all.
LOL!!! They just won’t quit trying to find some sort of complicity by Trump to malign Hillary and the DNC. An American President has no jurisdiction to pardon non-citizens, only whether or not they want to file charges,internationally against someone who has broken international law or broke our laws while on our soil.
I doubt it, but who knows?
Another “SPLAT” on the wall.......let’s see how much sticks and how far they can run with it.
I think Trump should announce publically he will consider a Hillary pardon, only upon resignation or firing the top 30-40% of the Justice Department staff.