Defense for Julian Assange, threatened with extradition to the United States, said on Wednesday that Donald Trump offered the founder of Wikileaks to pardon him if he said that Russia is not involved in the internal email leak. to the American Democratic Party.
This assertion was made Thursday in the British justice, at a hearing preceding the examination of the request for extradition towards the United States of the Australian of 48 years, which must begin from next Monday. The decision should not be made for several months.
During this hearing Wednesday, where Assange appeared by video conference, his defense cited a document in which his lawyer Jennifer Robinson affirms that this proposal of the American president was formulated through the intermediary of the American republican deputy Dana Rohrabacher, according to l press agency (PA).
The document states that Mr. Rohrabacher “went to see Mr. Assange and told him, on the President’s instructions, that he was offering him a pardon or some other solution, if Mr. Assange … said that Russia has not nothing to do with leaks from the Democratic Party, “said PA.
The judge considered that this evidence was admissible. Julian Assange’s lawyer could not be reached by AFP.
U.S. intelligence has established that Democrat emails were hacked by Russian hackers as part of a Moscow campaign to influence the U.S. presidential election, where Donald Trump faced rival Democrat Hilary Clinton.
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