Assange lawyer says she saw Trump ally offer to arrange pardon

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Assange lawyer says she saw Trump ally offer to arrange pardon​

LONDON (Reuters) - A lawyer for Julian Assange told a London court on Friday that she was present when an ally of U.S. President Donald Trump offered to arrange a pardon for the WikiLeaks founder in return for information that would “benefit President Trump politically”.

Australian-born Assange, 49, is fighting to avoid being sent to the United States, where he is charged with conspiring to hack government computers and violating an espionage law over the release of confidential cables by WikiLeaks in 2010-2011.

His lawyer, Jennifer Robinson, said in a witness statement to the court that she observed a meeting at the Ecuadorian embassy in London in 2017 between Assange and Republican then-U.S. Representative Dana Rohrabacher.

https://www.reuters.com/article/idUSKBN2691VW

Trending news, IF Assange can give valuable information. I don’t know if this is the best article on this… but it was randomly selected. I wonder what secrets Assange could tell? A lot of what he says I think, is not true.

 

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Trending news, IF Assange can give valuable information. I don’t know if this is the best article on this… but it was randomly selected. I wonder what secrets Assange could tell? A lot of what he says I think, is not true.

Rohrabacher said he had never spoken with the president about Assange, denied being sent on Trump’s behalf and said he was acting on his own when he offered to ask Trump for a pardon for Assange.

If that much is true? based on the article title?

Assange lawyer says she saw Trump ally offer to arrange pardon​

How about giving Assange, Rohrabacher, and Trump a polygraph test?

 

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Trending news, IF Assange can give valuable information. I don’t know if this is the best article on this… but it was randomly selected. I wonder what secrets Assange could tell? A lot of what he says I think, is not true.

Its about the Russian election interference issue as reported elsewhere in Aus

Julian Assange's lawyer says she saw Trump ally offer to arrange pardon

A lawyer for Julian Assange told a London court that she was present when an ally of US President Donald Trump offered to arrange a pardon for the WikiLeaks founder in return for information that would "benefit" the president "politically".

www.sbs.com.au