Holy shit!!!
Courtesy of The Daily Beast:
A lawyer for Julian Assange has claimed in court that President Trump offered to pardon Assange if the WikiLeaks founder agreed to help cover up Russia’s involvement in hacking emails from the Democratic National Committee.
Assange’s lawyers said on Wednesday that former Republican congressman Dana Rohrabacher offered Assange the deal in 2017, a year after emails that damaged Hillary Clinton in the presidential race had been published. WikiLeaks posted the stolen DNC emails after they were hacked by Russian operatives.
The claim that Rohrabacher acted as an emissary for the White House came during a pre-extradition hearing in London.
Assange has argued that he should not be extradited to the U.S. because the American case against him is politically motivated. He spent almost seven years hiding in the Ecuadorian embassy in Central London claiming that he would be jailed in the U.S. if he wasn’t granted asylum. He was kicked out of the embassy last year.
His lawyers told the court that Trump’s alleged offer to pardon Assange proved that this was no ordinary criminal investigation.
Edward Fitzgerald, who was representing Assange in court, said he had evidence that a quid pro quo was put to Assange by Rohrabacher, who was known as Putin’s favorite congressman.
Fitzgerald said a statement produced by Assange’s personal lawyer, Jennifer Robinson, included a description of “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.”
Well the first thing that the Trump folks will do is to point out that Assange is not exactly a trustworthy witness, and that is a fact.
However it should also be pointed out that Wikileaks was pro-Trump from very early on and that Assange vehemently denied that he got his information from the Russians, so this is a complete reversal of his former narrative.
That could be attributed to an attempt to gain sympathy from the Birtish legal system, and to stay out of the American courts altogether, or it could simply be that he is now ready to tell the truth.
If this pans out it could be the smoking gun that proves Trump was working in cahoots with the Kremlin to hide the fact that Russia was behind the DNC hacks.
In other words, yes this is a holy shit moment.
https://www.theguardian.com/media/2020/feb/19/donald-trump-offered-julian-assange-pardon-russia-hack-wikileaks?CMP=share_btn_fb&fbclid=IwAR16XboUKdF-pVpek4I00YjonEXe-PVUg2SRPxNiOGNbOXQfUXTdi1Qd68A
Reindeer games. ALL reindeer games.
And I still think Comey’s an asshole to the nth.
Enjoy the debate tonight! LOVE how they’re whining about Bloomberg spending his own money. Jealous much?
I’m voting blue no matter what, not watching, but better that than out of our pockets like the others. Go ahead, be mad, don’t care.
I really don’t get it either, just more in fighting and giving ammunition to trump. If Bloomberg wants to spend his own money, more power to him.
It is really stupid and naive of the other Democrats to think we are really stupid enough to support their campaigns, it takes millions to run a campaign. This holier than thou, I don’t take money from rich folks is ridiculous, who else has money to throw away and also who else has enough deductions to be able to write it off, the filthy rich.
I am already sick and tired of them back stabbing each other, trump should be the target.
Same old crap, why would anyone? Empty promises and claptrap as always, while we the chaff are the ones who always pay in the end.
https://www.politicususa.com/2020/02/19/trump-offered-to-pardon-assange-if-he-covered-up-russias-dnc-hack.html
https://www.politicususa.com/2020/02/20/assange-evidence-trump-pardon.html
Legal experts say that it appears that Julian Assange has evidence to support his claim that Donald Trump offered him a pardon
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/rohrabacher-assange-trump-pardon_n_5e4eb326c5b615cb7bdc0bf8
“I spoke to Julian Assange and told him if he would provide evidence about who gave WikiLeaks the emails I would petition the president to give him a pardon,” Rohrabacher said.
“He knew I could get to the president.”
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/feb/19/john-bolton-susan-rice-trump-ukraine
https://news.yahoo.com/trumps-pardon-bernie-kerik-apparently-064346806.html
“The White House credited Kerik’s friend and former boss in New York City, Rudy Giuliani — now Trump’s personal lawyer and Ukraine fixer — for helping persuade Trump to pardon Kerik. Another friend of both Kerik and Trump, Newsmax chief executive Christopher Ruddy, told the Daily News that Trump’s pardon was “a just decision” in light of Kerik’s “minor stuff” crimes.
One of Kerik’s former colleagues in the Giuliani administration, NYC Parks Commissioner Henry Stern, recalled Kerik’s multifaceted downfall from heroic 9/11 figure to flamed-out reject for Homeland Security secretary slightly differently back in late 2004, The New Yorker recounted: “Officials have gotten into trouble for sexual misconduct, abusing their authority, personal bankruptcy, failure to file documents, waste of public funds, receiving substantial unrecorded gifts, and association with organized crime figures. It is rare for anyone to be under fire on all seven of the above issues.””