It wouldn’t be so important if Democrats hadn’t focused so inordinately on the Russians. The meeting, which was reported at the time, was also attended by Charles Johnson, a conservative political activist.įollowing his trip to London, Rohrabacher told the Orange Country Register that Assange “reaffirmed his aggressive denial that the Russians had anything to do with the hacking of the DNC during the election.” He added: “I think it will have an earth-shattering political impact. while he waits for a ruling on the U.S.’s extradition request, in 2017, then Republican congressman and Trump ally Dana Rohrabacher traveled to the Ecuadorean Embassy in London where the then fugitive was staying and offered a presidential pardon, on Trump’s behalf, if Assange would publicly state that Russia had nothing whatsoever to do with the 2016 hack and leak of emails from the Democratic National Committee. In total, the president went to bat for 11 people, but according to a new report from the Washington Post, if he’d had his way, the list could’ve clocked in at a cool dozen and included WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, who Trump allegedly tried to bribe with a pardon in the hopes of clearing Russia’s good name.Īccording to a lawyer for Assange, who is currently sitting in prison in the U.K.
Among the group: Wall Street poster child for greed Michael Milken, ex-NYPD chief and Rudy Giuliani pal Bernie Kerik- who displaced 9/11 first responders in order to have a covert spot to conduct two (2) affairs, ex-Illinois governor and children’s hospital shakedown artist Rod Blagojevich, and Paul Pogue, the former owner of a Texas construction company whose son just so happened to have donated $85,000 last year to Trump Victory and maxed out donations to the Trump presidential campaign.
On Tuesday, Donald Trump announced a slew of pardons and commutations for politically connected individuals, various members of the 1%, Celebrity Apprentice contestants, and generally terrible people.