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applegrove

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Thu Feb 20, 2020, 03:44 AM Feb 2020

(Assange) Heather Cox Richardson - February 19, 2020 - Letters From An American

https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com


"SNIP.....

In London, where Assange is fighting extradition to the United States, Assange’s lawyer says that Assange will prove that former California Republican Congressman Dana Rohrabacher visited Assange when he was holed up in the Ecuadorian Embassy in London in 2017 to make the offer. The White House has categorically denied this story, although Rohrabacher’s visit to Assange, and his subsequent assertion that the Russians had nothing to do with hacking Democrats, is public record. So, too, is Rohrabacher’s meeting with Trump for 45 minutes before he went to see Assange.

All I can say on this is… maybe. That is, this story is entirely in keeping with what we know of Assange, Trump, and Rohrabacher. It fits the relevant timelines. But does Assange have proof? Maybe.

Assange is a terribly problematic witness, a man who has proven in his seven years holed up in the Ecuadorian Embassy that he is all about protecting Julian Assange, and who is now facing 175 years in prison if he is extradited to America and convicted of espionage. Under those circumstances, who wouldn’t try virtually anything?

Still, on June 15, 2016, Kevin McCarthy (R-CA), now House Minority Leader, was caught on tape saying: “There’s two people I think Putin pays: Rohrabacher and Trump.” (McCarthy later took Russian money himself, from Lev Parnas.) The obvious way to figure out what really happened is for the House to subpoena Rohrabacher and the other two people allegedly present when Rohrabacher allegedly made the offer: Charles Johnson, a conservative activist, and Jennifer Robinson, a lawyer for Wikileaks. We shall see.

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(Assange) Heather Cox Richardson - February 19, 2020 - Letters From An American (Original Post) applegrove Feb 2020 OP
There may indeed be some fire BlueMTexpat Feb 2020 #1
We need more RayStar Feb 2020 #2

BlueMTexpat

(15,349 posts)
1. There may indeed be some fire
Thu Feb 20, 2020, 06:47 AM
Feb 2020

with this smoke.

I loathe Assange for the reasons expressed above. But it certainly sounds plausible.

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