{"id":9588,"date":"2020-02-19T13:35:41","date_gmt":"2020-02-19T18:35:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pappp.net\/?guid=7d16ded928ab331b614c3c3797e325db"},"modified":"2020-02-19T13:35:41","modified_gmt":"2020-02-19T18:35:41","slug":"julian-assanges-lawyers-say-trump-offered-pardon-in-exchange-for-concealing-source-of-dnc-leaks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/?p=9588","title":{"rendered":"Julian Assange&rsquo;s lawyers say Trump offered pardon in exchange for concealing source of DNC leaks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2020\/2\/19\/21144074\/assange-trump-pardon-extradition-trial-dana-rorbacher-russia\">The Verge -  All Posts<\/a><\/p>\n<img alt=\"Protestors At Court Supporting Julian Assange\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.vox-cdn.com\/thumbor\/pXGMBuUU3pVbi5ie_XsHzgMTj_0=\/0x0:5455x3637\/1310x873\/cdn.vox-cdn.com\/uploads\/chorus_image\/image\/66337792\/1201407154.jpg.0.jpg\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer\"\/><small>Photo by Leon Neal\/Getty Images<\/small>\n\n  <p>Julian Assange&rsquo;s legal team is preparing to testify that the WikiLeaks founder was offered a pardon by President Trump in exchange for covering up the source of the DNC leaks, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thedailybeast.com\/trump-offered-assange-pardon-if-he-covered-up-russian-hack-court-hears?ref=home\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">as first reported by <em>The Daily Beast<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>According to Edward Fitzgerald, who is representing Assange in his ongoing extradition hearing in the UK, Assange&rsquo;s representatives received messages from then-Rep. Dana Rohrabacher (R-CA), effectively offering a pardon from Trump in exchange for false statements relating to the source of the DNC leaks.<\/p>\n<p>Fitzgerald did not have first-hand knowledge of the exchange, but he said future testimony from another legal representative would show &ldquo;Mr. Rohrabacher going to see Mr Assange and saying, on instructions from the president, he...<\/p>\n  <p>\n    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2020\/2\/19\/21144074\/assange-trump-pardon-extradition-trial-dana-rorbacher-russia\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Continue reading&hellip;<\/a>\n  <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Photo by Leon Neal\/Getty Images<\/p>\n<p>  Julian Assange&rsquo;s legal team is preparing to testify that t&#8230;<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/pappp.net\/?p=9588\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[226],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9588","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9588","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9588"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9588\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9588"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9588"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9588"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}