pknopp
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Well.. ..you should try reading a bit closer...I do believe i said, "If true"?Fake News:And here we go again! Not illegal, i don't think..just...corrupt and manipulative..if true:
Lawyer: Assange was offered US pardon if he cleared Russia
A lawyer for Julian Assange said Wednesday that the WikiLeaks founder plans to claim during his extradition hearing that he was offered a pardon by the Trump administration if he agreed to say Russia was not involved in leaking Democratic National Committee emails during the 2016 U.S. election campaign.
Assange is fighting extradition to the United States on spying charges, and his full court hearing is due to begin next week.
At a preliminary hearing, lawyer Edward Fitzgerald said that in August 2017, then-Republican Congressman Dana Rohrabacher visited Assange at the Ecuadorian embassy in London.
Fitzgerald said a statement from another Assange lawyer, Jennifer Robinson, recounted "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.”
The White House did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
#JOURNALISM:
You should try a dash of skepticism.
I also posted the corrected story as soon as it came out...did you not read it..or did the jerking of your knee interfere with your acquisition of pertinent data?
Now perhaps you haven't but if you had been following this story from the beginning you would have known the claims were total B.S.