NEW: Julian Assange lawyer tells court: Trump administration resorted to ‘extortion’ after pardon quid pro quo deal ell through

This from court pre-trial hearings last week:

Thread: BOMBSHELL: Trump Offered Assange Pardon if He Covered Up Russian Hack, WikiLeaks Founder’s Lawyer Claims

Assange was also said to have been asked to surrender details of source of DNC leaks (he refused)

Trump denies everything

First laughs as Mike Fitzgerald QC channels Mandy Rice-Davies : "We say.. well he would say that, wouldn't he ?”

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Note that this court hearing is the US DoJ extradition hearing, and Barr badly wants Assange shipped over to a US prision, put into solitary and silenced.

Quoting Assange lawyer in court today:

We say Trump sought to make an example of Assange, Michael Fitzgerald QC tells hearing.

"He was the obvious symbol of all that Trump condemned. He had brought american war crimes to the attention of the world."

Assange "naturally became a target of the America First ideologies" and is now a target based not on new revelations, but because it has become politically expedient.

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Julian Assange was subjected to surveillance on the instructions of US intelligence while in the Ecuadorian embassy, lawyer tells extradition hearing.

A witness has provided detail including how he collected sound recordings from microphones every 14 days. Witness said there were conversations about whether "more extreme measures should be adopted .. such as kidnapping or poisoning Julian Assange in the embassy"


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Exactly. This is now Trump’s Justice Department fighting to extradite Assange to US prison and they definitely don’t want him to talk.

Epsteined maybe?

already debunked

Thread: Shocker: That ‘Bombshell’ About Trump Offering Julian Assange a Pardon to Cover-Up for Russia Was Total Garbage

What exactly was debunked and how? This is all from sworn testimony from Assange’s lawyer with Assange present in a public court given over the last several days.

This is from today’s US extradition hearing for Assange.

This one is from last week’s

Thread: BOMBSHELL: Trump Offered Assange Pardon if He Covered Up Russian Hack, WikiLeaks Founder’s Lawyer Claims

I think the question we should be asking is this:

Why does Trump so badly want Assange brought to the U.S. and locked away in a U.S. prison?

Why does Trump so badly want Assange brought to the U.S. and locked away in a U.S. prison?

This story has already been debunked. It makes no sense. Assange had already publically stated on more than one occasion that russian was not the source of the emails. He said it was not a state actor. (that means it wasn't a government)

Isn't that what the judicial system does all the time...."plea bargain"

Same question:

What exactly was debunked and how? This is all from sworn testimony from Assange’s lawyer with Assange present in a public court given over the last several days.

And everybody knows that plea bargaining includes dangling presidential pardons and extortion.

If Trump manages to get Assange extradited to a jail in the US, somebody should start a GLP Assange mortality pool.

Trumps uncle John Julian Assange is just fine.
Keep watching the show

From what I read, Assange lawyer plans to introduce evidence tomorrow to support this.

If they do, and the evidence supports what Assange lawyer has stated in court, I doubt the UK will allow Trump to extradite him back to the US. And that will probably save the life of Julian Assange.

Yet Trump clearly wants him extradited and silenced.

democrats have been faking this news for 2 years on everything they have lost all credibility

This has nothing to do with democrats.

This is about Trump's DoJ extradition hearings in London court last week and this week, and sworn testimony provided by Assange's lawyer.

Tell us more about credibility.

here dude this is for you

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What the heck does that have to do with the testimony at Assange's extradition hearing?

News and Quotes From Julian Assange's US Extradition Hearing

Today:

* Assange's lawyer, Edward Fitzgerald, said conversations between Assange and his lawyers in the Ecuadorean embassy were secretly monitored by U.S. spies who had information passed to them by a private security company which was bugging the building.

Fitzgerald also told the court that former Republican U.S. Representative Dana Rohrabacher had met with Assange in July 2017 and discussed obtaining a pardon for him from President Trump in return for him disclosing who leaked Democratic Party emails ahead of the 2016 election. Last week, Rohrabacher said he never spoke to Trump about Assange and Trump likewise denied he authorized any meeting.

"We say 'well, he would, wouldn't he?," Fitzgerald said.

* Fitzgerald argued that his client should not be extradited to the United States as he would not get a fair trial and would be a suicide risk.

Assange's lawyer, Edward Fitzgerald, said extradition would expose Assange to inhumane and degrading treatment by a disproportionate sentence and prison conditions.

Fitzgerald said the extradition request was motivated by politics rather than any genuine crimes. He said it would be unjust and oppressive to extradite him because of his mental state and risk of suicide.

He said the U.S. attitude to Assange had changed when U.S. President Trump came to power. Fitzgerald said Trump wanted to make an example of Assange.

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old piece of shit assange is gonna hang!

"Julian Assange is being made an example of. President Trump and his administration decided to make an example of Julian Assange," Fitzgerald said, adding that Assange's actions had brought evidence of war crimes to public attention.

its called fake news..

I do not remember having sex with that woman.