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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsRohrabacher confirms he offered Trump pardon to Assange for proof Russia didn't hack DNC email
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/rohrabacher-confirms-he-offered-trump-pardon-to-assange-for-proof-russia-didn-t-hack-dnc-email/ar-BB10cxji?ocid=ob-fb-enus-280&fbclid=IwAR2I6N-HOcuJmPhwznGUZm5sDxsUvW4_aPoSrA1NXkrOTn1FPMz7OIhDVO0
Michael Isikoff 13 mins ago
WASHINGTON Former California Republican congressman Dana Rohrabacher confirmed in a new interview that during a three-hour meeting at the Ecuadorian Embassy in August 2017, he told Julian Assange he would get President Trump to give him a pardon if he turned over information proving the Russians had not been the source of internal Democratic National Committee emails published by WikiLeaks.
In a phone interview with Yahoo News, Rohrabacher said his goal during the meeting was to find proof for a widely debunked conspiracy theory: that WikiLeaks real source for the DNC emails was not Russian intelligence agents, as U.S. officials have since concluded, but former DNC staffer Seth Rich, who was murdered on the streets of Washington in July 2016 in what police believe was a botched robbery.
A lawyer for Assange in London on Wednesday cited the pardon offer from Rohrabacher during a court hearing on the U.S. governments request to extradite the WikiLeaks founder.
White House press secretary Stephanie Grisham immediately denounced the claim about a pardon discussion with Assange as a complete fabrication, adding that the president barely knows Dana Rohrabacher and has never spoken to him on this subject or almost any subject.
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Michael Isikoff 13 mins ago
WASHINGTON Former California Republican congressman Dana Rohrabacher confirmed in a new interview that during a three-hour meeting at the Ecuadorian Embassy in August 2017, he told Julian Assange he would get President Trump to give him a pardon if he turned over information proving the Russians had not been the source of internal Democratic National Committee emails published by WikiLeaks.
In a phone interview with Yahoo News, Rohrabacher said his goal during the meeting was to find proof for a widely debunked conspiracy theory: that WikiLeaks real source for the DNC emails was not Russian intelligence agents, as U.S. officials have since concluded, but former DNC staffer Seth Rich, who was murdered on the streets of Washington in July 2016 in what police believe was a botched robbery.
A lawyer for Assange in London on Wednesday cited the pardon offer from Rohrabacher during a court hearing on the U.S. governments request to extradite the WikiLeaks founder.
White House press secretary Stephanie Grisham immediately denounced the claim about a pardon discussion with Assange as a complete fabrication, adding that the president barely knows Dana Rohrabacher and has never spoken to him on this subject or almost any subject.
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Rohrabacher confirms he offered Trump pardon to Assange for proof Russia didn't hack DNC email (Original Post)
Dennis Donovan
Feb 2020
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ArtTownsend
(439 posts)1. "There's two people I think Putin pays: Rohrabacher and Trump."
- Kevin McCarthy, current House Republican leader.
dalton99a
(81,708 posts)3. Yep.
global1
(25,298 posts)4. Ah - The Webs We Weave.....
and as always Trump barely knows Dana.
Where have I heard that before?
ArtTownsend
(439 posts)7. "Don't know him. Never met him. Fake News."
And so on.
exboyfil
(17,865 posts)9. Should go into a hit ad
ArtTownsend
(439 posts)10. Yes! "No Collusion" my ass!
Proud Liberal Dem
(24,460 posts)11. One of the very few truthful statements I believe he has ever made
mr_lebowski
(33,643 posts)2. Or if you don't want Facebook getting credit with MSN for your visit ...
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/rohrabacher-confirms-he-offered-trump-pardon-to-assange-for-proof-russia-didn-t-hack-dnc-email/ar-BB10cxji
I have NO TROUBLE believing what Rohrabacher said is exactly what happened (which is weird to say lol).
And it's not hard to believe Trump didn't PERSONALLY tell the congressman this ... he just told someone else to tell him this. Like ... Rudy ... who of course we can't ASK, cause, you know ... that's his 'personal lawyer'. PFFFFFFTTTTT.
If this was a Democrat ... impeachable offense.
BTW, MSN, officials had ALREADY LONG CONCLUDED it was the Russians. It was not 'since then' that they concluded thusly.
I have NO TROUBLE believing what Rohrabacher said is exactly what happened (which is weird to say lol).
And it's not hard to believe Trump didn't PERSONALLY tell the congressman this ... he just told someone else to tell him this. Like ... Rudy ... who of course we can't ASK, cause, you know ... that's his 'personal lawyer'. PFFFFFFTTTTT.
If this was a Democrat ... impeachable offense.
BTW, MSN, officials had ALREADY LONG CONCLUDED it was the Russians. It was not 'since then' that they concluded thusly.
Dennis Donovan
(18,770 posts)5. I don't do facebook - that link was from twitter. n/t
mr_lebowski
(33,643 posts)6. Then whoever posted it on Twitter ... copied it from FB :) nt
Sneederbunk
(14,319 posts)8. Rohrabacher, a guy who should have been in jail a long time ago.
lagomorph777
(30,613 posts)12. Russiabacker, a guy who's gonna lose his Putin paycheck.
Oops. Might even suffer some mean posts on the Twit platform.
Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin
(108,483 posts)13. Oops a daisy