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groundloop

(11,518 posts)
Fri Nov 27, 2020, 09:49 AM Nov 2020

Julian Assange's partner appeals to Trump to pardon him

Source: ABC News

LONDON -- Julian Assange’s partner, Stella Moris, has tweeted President Donald Trump on Thanksgiving, appealing to him to pardon the WikiLeaks founder.

Moris posted a photo of their two young children on Twitter Thursday and wrote: “These are Julian’s sons Max and Gabriel. They need their father. Our family needs to be whole again.”

“I beg you, please bring him home for Christmas,” she added.

Assange, 49, remains in a high-security British prison cell as he awaits a judge's decision about whether he can be sent to the U.S. to face espionage charges.

Read more: https://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/julian-assanges-partner-appeals-trump-pardon-74418520?cid=clicksource_4380645_2_heads_hero_live_headlines_hed

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PatSeg

(47,419 posts)
5. And it would seem
Fri Nov 27, 2020, 10:24 AM
Nov 2020

his insatiable need to be hated for some bizarre reason. He seems to love pissing people off.

Pachamama

(16,887 posts)
4. Attorney Stella Moris slept with her client Julian Assange & got pregnant twice by him in secret
Fri Nov 27, 2020, 10:16 AM
Nov 2020

Now her “defense” of her client she was having sex with is to appeal to Traitor Trump who her Putin sponsored client helped steal an election for the Presidency of the United States with stolen information - for a fucking Pardon?

Is this really happening?

You just can’t make up this shit....

JDC

(10,127 posts)
6. Aren't Assange's legal troubles multi-national?
Fri Nov 27, 2020, 11:06 AM
Nov 2020

The con would do it I'm sure f there was something in it for him. Now or in the future.

DetlefK

(16,423 posts)
12. The Wikileaks-website is hosted on servers in Switzerland and in Moscow. Take your guess.
Fri Nov 27, 2020, 02:05 PM
Nov 2020

Switzerland or Moscow? Where would he go?

Wikileaks moved their servers to Moscow after getting heat from the US for publishing their diplomatic cables.

Wikileaks moved their servers to Moscow AFTER a russian spokesperson bragged that russian secret agents would simply murder everyone at Wikileaks if they tried to pull that shit on Russia.

You read that right: Wikileaks moved to Moscow after Moscow threatened to KILL Wikileaks for doing their job.



And I have read an interview Julian Assange did with a journalist who's a personal friend of his. The journalist asked Assange whether they got the Clinton and DNC leaks from russian agents. In response, Assange conducted a carefully worded rethorical dance trying to neither confirm nor deny that Wikileaks had been used by Russia as their tool.



Switzerland or Moscow? Take your guess.

JohnnyRingo

(18,628 posts)
8. All he'd have to do is point out...
Fri Nov 27, 2020, 11:24 AM
Nov 2020

...that it was Hillary's State Dept that went after Assange under President Obama and he'll be home free.

DetlefK

(16,423 posts)
11. Maybe he shouldn't have been on the run from the law for 7 YEARS. That would have saved some time.
Fri Nov 27, 2020, 01:54 PM
Nov 2020

All that hubub about his extradition that is happening now could have been settled 7 years ago.

7 years of his life wasted.

7 years of family-life gone by.

Aussie105

(5,383 posts)
16. Julian and WikiLeaks are ancient history.
Fri Nov 27, 2020, 03:41 PM
Nov 2020

No longer relevant. Does it matter what happens to him?

He was originally from Townsville, Queensland, Australia. The whole Wikileaks concept of revelations was based on a once popular concept of 'stick it to the Man', 'Reveal government devious plots', etc.
But like most keyboard warriors, future consequences weren't considered.
And yes Julian, we got the message. Governments often do Dirty Deeds.

He has already served 7 years of self imposed imprisonment, why not just send him on his way? Anywhere. Then ignore him.

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