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Aussie Gold Member Offline OzPolitic Posts: 38517 Gender:	Julian Assange offered pardon from Trump Feb 20^th, 2020 at 10:22am Link. This makes no sense. Assange has already said he did not get the emails from Russia.
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Re: Julian Assange offered pardon from Trump
Reply #1 - Feb 20^th, 2020 at 10:35am

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Assange's lawyer Edward Fitzgerald QC told the court his team wanted to submit more evidence — including a statement from another of Assange's lawyers, Jennifer Robinson.

He told the court the statement detailed an allegation that the former US Republican congressman Dana Rohrabacher visited Assange on the instructions of US President Donald Trump.

The statement said the congressman offered him a pardon in return for saying Russia had nothing to do with the 2016 presidential campaign leaks.

So Trump blackmailing people for public comment happened more than just with Ukraine?

I'm soooooooooo surprised...

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Bobby. Gold Member Online Australian Politics Posts: 102753 Melbourne Gender:	Re: Julian Assange offered pardon from Trump Reply #2 - Feb 20^th, 2020 at 10:56am Aussie wrote on Feb 20^th, 2020 at 10:22am: Link. This makes no sense. Assange has already said he did not get the emails from Russia. Fake news - it's been denied.
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Aussie Gold Member Offline OzPolitic Posts: 38517 Gender:	Re: Julian Assange offered pardon from Trump Reply #3 - Feb 20^th, 2020 at 12:51pm Bobby. wrote on Feb 20^th, 2020 at 10:56am: Aussie wrote on Feb 20^th, 2020 at 10:22am: Link. This makes no sense. Assange has already said he did not get the emails from Russia. Fake news - it's been denied. Not entirely....but this bloke is running away from any suggestion Trump was involved. Link.
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Re: Julian Assange offered pardon from Trump
Reply #4 - Feb 20^th, 2020 at 1:23pm

Aussie wrote on Feb 20^th, 2020 at 12:51pm:

Bobby. wrote on Feb 20^th, 2020 at 10:56am:

Aussie wrote on Feb 20^th, 2020 at 10:22am:

Link.

This makes no sense. Assange has already said he did not get the emails from Russia.

Fake news - it's been denied.

Not entirely....but this bloke is running away from any suggestion Trump was involved.

Link.

Assange should be in prison with Trump!!!

Huh

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chimera Gold Member Offline Australian Politics Posts: 10874 armidale Gender:	Re: Julian Assange offered pardon from Trump Reply #5 - Feb 20^th, 2020 at 2:08pm It has parallels with Fed raid on ABC about national security / Lib security. Australia is sadly way behind with Guantanamo style of enhanced interrogation of persons of interest.
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Re: Julian Assange offered pardon from Trump
Reply #6 - Feb 20^th, 2020 at 3:03pm

Aussie wrote on Feb 20^th, 2020 at 12:51pm:

Bobby. wrote on Feb 20^th, 2020 at 10:56am:

Aussie wrote on Feb 20^th, 2020 at 10:22am:

Link.

This makes no sense. Assange has already said he did not get the emails from Russia.

Fake news - it's been denied.

Not entirely....but this bloke is running away from any suggestion Trump was involved.

Link.

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-51566470

Dana Rohrabacher denies offering Assange a pardon from Trump

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A former Republican congressman has denied he offered a pardon to Wikileaks founder Julian Assange on behalf of US President Donald Trump.

Assange's lawyer said Dana Rohrabacher claimed to be acting "on instructions" from Mr Trump in offering clemency.

In return, the president was said to have wanted Assange to say Russia was not involved in leaking emails during the 2016 US election.

But Mr Rohrabacher, a former California representative, rejected the claims.

"At no time did I talk to President Trump about Julian Assange. Likewise, I was not directed by Trump or anyone else connected with him to meet with Julian Assange," he said in a statement.

Mr Rohrabacher said he was acting on his own "fact-finding mission".

He said he told the Wikileaks founder that if he could provide evidence of who passed on the DNC emails, he would then call on the president to pardon him.

The White House called the allegation "a complete fabrication and a total lie".

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Re: Julian Assange offered pardon from Trump
Reply #7 - Feb 20^th, 2020 at 4:00pm

"if he could provide evidence of who passed on the DNC emails, he would then call on the president to pardon him."

Words . It can mean that a pardon was offered , and the offer involved Trump. It's not saying that Trump was doing the offering. So Assange could be understood to have it correctly. The court record shows that.

But it's weird that he gave the answer without bargaining for Trump's real pardon.

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Re: Julian Assange offered pardon from Trump
Reply #8 - Feb 20^th, 2020 at 6:07pm

chimera wrote on Feb 20^th, 2020 at 4:00pm:

"if he could provide evidence of who passed on the DNC emails, he would then call on the president to pardon him."

Words . It can mean that a pardon was offered , and the offer involved Trump. It's not saying that Trump was doing the offering. So Assange could be understood to have it correctly. The court record shows that.

But it's weird that he gave the answer without bargaining for Trump's real pardon.

Either way - Aussie needs to apologise to the readers for
starting a thread to spread false rumors on the internet.

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Re: Julian Assange offered pardon from Trump
Reply #9 - Feb 20^th, 2020 at 6:25pm

Bobby. wrote on Feb 20^th, 2020 at 6:07pm:

chimera wrote on Feb 20^th, 2020 at 4:00pm:

"if he could provide evidence of who passed on the DNC emails, he would then call on the president to pardon him."

Words . It can mean that a pardon was offered , and the offer involved Trump. It's not saying that Trump was doing the offering. So Assange could be understood to have it correctly. The court record shows that.

But it's weird that he gave the answer without bargaining for Trump's real pardon.

Either way - Aussie needs to apologise to the readers for
starting a thread to spread false rumors on the internet.

When you apologise for being a far kwit.....

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chimera Gold Member Offline Australian Politics Posts: 10874 armidale Gender:	Re: Julian Assange offered pardon from Trump Reply #10 - Feb 20^th, 2020 at 6:32pm The ABC was clumsy and seems to say Trump dun it. Bad ABC.
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Re: Julian Assange offered pardon from Trump
Reply #11 - Feb 20^th, 2020 at 8:22pm

Aussie wrote on Feb 20^th, 2020 at 12:51pm:

Bobby. wrote on Feb 20^th, 2020 at 10:56am:

Aussie wrote on Feb 20^th, 2020 at 10:22am:

Link.

This makes no sense. Assange has already said he did not get the emails from Russia.

Fake news - it's been denied.

Not entirely....but this bloke is running away from any suggestion Trump was involved.

Link.

It's fake news, Aussie.

Okay, it may have happened, but there was no quid pro quo.

Look, maybe there was a bit of quid pro quo, but Mr Trump didn't know a thing about it.

So what if Mr Trump knew about it? That doesn't mean a thing.

It's not a crime, okay?

I mean it's not a HIGH crime or anything.

Who cares? Mr Trump's never going to be chucked out, so why bother?

Best to just keep quiet about this, Aussie. We'll win so much we'll get tired of winning, no?

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John Smith Gold Member Offline Australian Politics Posts: 74217 Gender:	Re: Julian Assange offered pardon from Trump Reply #12 - Feb 20^th, 2020 at 8:31pm philperth2010 wrote on Feb 20^th, 2020 at 1:23pm: Assange should be in prison with Trump!!!
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Re: Julian Assange offered pardon from Trump
Reply #13 - Feb 20^th, 2020 at 8:36pm

Aussie wrote on Feb 20^th, 2020 at 6:25pm:

Bobby. wrote on Feb 20^th, 2020 at 6:07pm:

chimera wrote on Feb 20^th, 2020 at 4:00pm:

"if he could provide evidence of who passed on the DNC emails, he would then call on the president to pardon him."

Words . It can mean that a pardon was offered , and the offer involved Trump. It's not saying that Trump was doing the offering. So Assange could be understood to have it correctly. The court record shows that.

But it's weird that he gave the answer without bargaining for Trump's real pardon.

Either way - Aussie needs to apologise to the readers for
starting a thread to spread false rumors on the internet.

When you apologise for being a far kwit.....

Aussie,

Julian Assange was not offered a pardon from Trump.

You lied and now you need to apologise or lose all credibility.

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Re: Julian Assange offered pardon from Trump
Reply #14 - Feb 21^st, 2020 at 12:13am

A quick brief on the Trump-Assange fake news today

There’s some serious fake news circulating today regarding Trump and Julian Assange that’s going to be a major embarrassment to those circulating the lie. This will be a short breakdown of a somewhat involved subject but will be enough to fully enjoy the sweet taste of leftist tears.

You have to understand this fact to really maximize your enjoyment: there are still leftists and never-Trump morons who will take it to the grave that Trump and Putin stole the election from Hillary. The Mueller investigation for which they cheered means nothing, nor does the IG report. Accept that these people would settle for catching Trump with a bottle of Smirnoff at this point, when the reality is the closest thing to that side of the world involved with President Trump is Melania.

Here’s the fake story in a nutshell: Trump sent a surrogate to offer Assange a plea deal if he'd say he didn’t get the DNC material from the Russians for the purpose of hiding his collusion with Putin to steal the election from Hillary.

Yes, seriously.

Fact: Trump wasn’t even sworn in as President when Assange was publicly stating Russia or any state government had anything to do with the DNC material.

https://conservativehardliner.com/quick-brief-trump-assange-fake-news-today

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