Trump ‘Offered Pardon’ to Assange If He Denied Russia Leak, Court Hears
By Breitbart. US President Donald Trump promised to pardon WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange if he denied Russia leaked emails of his 2016 election rival’s campaign, a London court was told on Wednesday.
Assange’s lawyer Jennifer Robinson said in a document Trump relayed the offer through former US Congressman Dana Rohrabacher, the UK’s domestic Press Association news agency reported.
The revelation came at a case management hearing at Westminster Magistrates’ Court before Monday’s formal start of Washington’s extradition request for him to face espionage charges.
If found guilty in the United States, he could be jailed for 175 years.
Assange’s defence cited a statement from Robinson in which she said that Rohrabacher had been to see Assange and said “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”. (Read more from “Trump ‘Offered Pardon’ to Assange If He Denied Russia Leak, Court Hears” HERE)
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White House: Press Reports that Trump Offered Pardon to Assange, “Total Lie”
By Maegan Vazquez, Livvy Doherty, Claudia Rebaza and Angela Dewan. [I]n a statement released Wednesday, Rohrabacher said he had never spoken to Trump about Assange and that the visit was “my own fact finding mission. . . At no time did I offer a deal made by the President, nor did I say I was representing the President.”
White House Press Secretary Stephanie Grisham dismissed Fitzgerald’s claim as “a total lie.” “The President barely knows Dana Rohrabacher other than he’s an ex-congressman. He’s never spoken to him on this subject or almost any subject. It is a complete fabrication and a total lie. This is probably another never ending hoax and total lie from the DNC,” Grisham said in a statement to CNN on Wednesday. . .
[Rohrabacher, a] former aide to Ronald Reagan, who served in the House for nearly three decades, said he tried to take Assange’s message directly to Trump but was denied a meeting by White House chief of staff John Kelly. (Read more from “Trump ‘Offered Pardon’ to Assange If He Denied Russia Leak, Court Hears” HERE)
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