WSJ: Pro-Russia GOPer Pitched WikiLeaks Pardon Deal To White House
Source: Talking Points Memo
By TIERNEY SNEED Published SEPTEMBER 15, 2017 6:04 PM
Rep. Dana Rohrabacher (R-CA), an eccentric lawmaker known for his pro-Russia stances, proposed to the White House a pardon deal for WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange in a Wednesday phone call Wednesday, the Wall Street Journal reported.
Rohrabacher suggested to President Trumps chief-of-staff, John Kelly, that the administration end Assanges various legal problems in the U.S. In exchange, Assange would turn over a digital storage device that Rohrabacher said would clear Russia of allegations of interference in the 2016 election, according to the report.
The congressman told Kelly that if what Assange turned over was not the proof promised, he would get nothing, obviously, according to the report. Over the course of summer 2016, WikiLeaks published thousands of emails from Democratic officials believed to have been the target of a hacking campaign backed by the Russians.
Rohrabacher traveled to London last month to meet with Assange at the Ecuadorean embassy, where the WikiLeaks founder is avoiding extradition to the U.S. Once the meeting was reported, Rohrabacher indicated his plans to tell Trump what he heard from Assange. On Thursday, he told the Los Angeles Times he had spoken to senior people at the White House about arranging a meeting with the President.
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Who is running against this ass****
I hate f*cking Traitors.........................
lastlib
(23,133 posts)...so Rohrabacher can burn in it. For Eternity. FUCKING TRAITOR!! . .
canetoad
(17,133 posts)Posted in TPM comments on this article? What a fucking idiot.
TomCADem
(17,380 posts)...that Trump was about as pro-Russia as Dana.
Hortensis
(58,785 posts)Rohrabacher's fellow CA rep, Kevin McCarthy said it was only a joke, but a fellow Republican as a Russian agent is a joke? The NYT had reported that in 2012 the FBI warned Rorhabacher in a formal meeting for that purpose that Russia was recruiting him.
Can you imagine Kelly's disgust? Or the pressure on Rohrabacher to offer this ridiculous deal? Russia can't be "cleared." Is this just another of Putin's fun turnings of the knife?
Scarsdale
(9,426 posts)Lyin' Ryan told McCarthy that information was to be kept "in the family" The gop does not believe in a two party system. Theirs is the ONLY real political party, doncha know.
Initech
(100,027 posts)Rohrabacher is a gigantic POS. He needs to go!!
calimary
(81,085 posts)Rohrabacher's district is one of seven targeted for flipping here in SoCal.
riversedge
(70,040 posts)kimbutgar
(21,039 posts)Who is his allegiance to? The USA or Russia.
Sadie5
(1,933 posts)So these days it is just in your face with the swamp crew. This idiot shouldn't be allowed to hold office. Not to mention trump has married two Russian women. My suggestion is to hand out one way airline tickets to Russia for the Trump crew and revoke their citizenship.
Eugene
(61,803 posts)John Kelly save us!
Dopers_Greed
(2,640 posts)He's only doing this because he's (likely) paid by Putin.
Would he even have any clue what Wikileaks is, otherwise? He's a 70-year-old surfer.
Bernardo de La Paz
(48,936 posts)Assange also fears mainline Republicons. Most except Rohrabacher consider him as much of a security threat as any traitor (he's not American).
ck4829
(35,035 posts)sinkingfeeling
(51,434 posts)kwassa
(23,340 posts)how this could be proof of anything ....
Scurrilous
(38,687 posts)Is that what they call traitors now?