Donald Trump offered Julian Assange a US presidential pardon or 'some way out' two years ago, according to evidence to be presented at his London extradition trial
US President Donald Trump offered WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange a US presidential pardon or "some way out" two years ago, according to evidence to be presented at his London extradition trial.At the final administrative hearing in Westminster Magistrates Court on Wednesday, Assange's barrister Edward Fitzgerald revealed that fellow defence solicitor Jennifer Robinson will outline the presidential pardon offer in a statement to the trial starting on Monday.
He said Robinson's statement will describe how Republican Representative Dana Rohrabacher had visited the Australian in the Ecuadorian embassy to offer him a deal back in 2017."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," Fitzgerald told the court.
Assange, dressed in a brown sweater and white shirt with black trousers, calmly read through documents during the revelation.his legal challenge against extradition to the US to faces charges including 17 counts of spying and one of conspiring to commit computer intrusionThose charges relate to Wikileaks' 2010 release of thousands of classified Pentagon files on the Iraq and Afghanistan wars, some of which revealed war crimes and the torture of prisoners, along with US diplomatic cables.
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