Raw story reporting:
"Wikileaks founder Julian Assange told a British court on Tuesday that he had been promised a pardon by people close to President Donald Trump.
Assange made the remarks while appearing at a pretrial hearing via teleconference. Courtroom reporter James Doleman broke the news on Twitter.
According to Doleman, Assange said that the pardon was conditional on him publicly announcing that Russia had nothing to do with the attack on the 2016 election."
Julian Assange court appearance today- His lawyer mentioned a statement, that alleges former US Congressman Dana Rohrabacher visited Assange, saying he was there on behalf of the President, offering a pardon if JA would say Russia had nothing to do with DNC leaks. @SBSNews
More on Trump and his corrupt administration:
"Assange’s attorney Edward Fitzgerald said former U.S. Republican Congressman Dana Rohrabacher, a man with his own legendary affinity for Russian President Vladimir Putin, delivered the message to Assange at the Ecuadorian Embassy in London in August 2017.
Fitzgerald told the court that a statement from another Assange lawyer, Jennifer Robinson, recounts “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,” according to The Guardian.
News of the alleged offer arrives at a moment when Trump is waging an unprecedented assault on the American legal system, publicly insisting he has the right to bend criminal prosecutions to punish his enemies and protect his friends if he feels like it.
On Tuesday, Trump pardoned or commuted the sentences of 11 people, including a handful of political supporters and high-profile officials convicted of corruption."
3 comments:
Oh Wow! another report on Trump being a crooked lying p.o.s. corrupt pig.
Who's surprised?
And his supporters will kiss his ass because theyre as corrupt as he is.
I thought he said “Drain The Swamp,” not “Drain The Prisons.”
I'm attaching a spoof from my town's version of The Onion.
http://takomatorch.com/index.php/2020/02/20/president-trump-pardons-future-former-president-trump/?fbclid=IwAR3IMSDDJeZJN8585kN6AjHKbe_kHeB4sLM7eeeIw2PR9GdlQnuakn2p7LE
While I was laughing reading it, I would not put it past the sleazebag preznit to try something like this.
Possumlady
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