Trump Offers Assange Pardon If He Provides Source Of DNC Emails

Julian Assange

Since April 2019, Julian Assange, founder of Wikileaks, fight to avoid being extradited to the United States, where he is accused of conspiring to hack government computers and violate an espionage law on the dissemination of confidential documents by the WikiLeaks site between 2010 and 2011.

In addition to the 175 years in prison, he also incurred the death penalty. This is due to the fact that the United States in June reinforced the accusations against him. If the decision to extradite him remains on hold, things could take a different turn.

Having said that, could benefit from a presidential pardon from Donald Trump if you accept a proposal that you have offered.

Julian Assange
Related article:
The charges against Julian Assange have escalated

Julian Assange reportedly he has been asked to reveal the source of the damaging leak to Hillary Clinton.

According to his lawyer, he was asked to provide information that "would benefit President Trump politically."

It was revealed in a hearing on Friday that two political executives who claimed to represent Trump offered him to Julian Assange a "win-win" agreement to enable you to avoid extradition and prosecution.

Under the terms of the agreement, explained by Julian Assange's attorney, Jennifer Robinson, you would be offered a pardon if you revealed who leaked the Democratic Party emails on your site, to help clear up claims that these emails would have been provided by Russian hackers to promote Trump's 2016 election.

In fact, during the 2016 US presidential campaign, WikiLeaks published a series of emails from the DNC (Democratic National Committee).

This revelation hurt Democrat Hillary Clinton a bit, then candidate. American investigators eventually concluded that the emails were hacked by Russia to influence the elections.

However, leaks about the 2016 elections are not directly part of the criminal case Against Julian Assange, which relates to classified military and diplomatic documents published by WikiLeaks several years earlier.

assange
Related article:
Julian Assange extradition request to the United States signed

According to a statement by Robinson read to the court, the offer was made by Dana Rohrabacher, then a Republican member of Congress, and Charles Johnson, Trump's associate, at a meeting on August 15, 2017 at the Ecuadorian embassy in London where they had been refugee Julian Assange.

At the time, he was the subject of a secret investigation by a US grand jury.

“They had said that President Trump was aware and had approved that they come to meet with Assange to discuss a proposal, and that they would have an audience with the president to discuss the matter upon their return to Washington DC. Robinson said.

“Congressman Rohrabacher's proposal wanted Assange to identify the source of the 2016 election publications in exchange for some kind of pardon, guarantee or treatment that would benefit President Donald Trump in the plan. policy and will avoid prosecution and at the same time extradition to the United States, "he clarified.

Julian Assange's legal team first made the disclosure during the February hearings. But a team of President Trump immediately denied the deal and denied its existence.

In February, the White House qualified the claim that Trump had tried to strike a deal with Assange as a "total fabrication and a total lie."

For its part, Dana rohrabacher said he had never spoken to President Assange, denied being sent on Trump's behalf and said he was acting on his own by offering Trump a pardon from Assange.

Rohrabacher explained that he wanted to resolve ongoing speculation about Russian involvement in WikiLeaks' disclosure of DNC emails. According to him, this speculation is damaging relations between the United States and Russia, reviving the old Cold War policies and that it would be in the interest of the United States to have the matter resolved.

"At no point did I offer Julian Assange anything from the president because he had not spoken to him at all on this issue," Rohrabacher said in a February statement.

"However, when I spoke with Julian Assange, I told him that if he could provide me with information, as well as evidence on the identity of the person who actually forwarded the DNC emails to him, I would ask President Trump to forgive him."

Julian Assange
Related article:
Assange charged with 18 counts of spying law violation

Be the first to comment

Leave a Comment

Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked with *

*

*

  1. Responsible for the data: AB Internet Networks 2008 SL
  2. Purpose of the data: Control SPAM, comment management.
  3. Legitimation: Your consent
  4. Communication of the data: The data will not be communicated to third parties except by legal obligation.
  5. Data storage: Database hosted by Occentus Networks (EU)
  6. Rights: At any time you can limit, recover and delete your information.