Julian Assange Offers U.S. Government Proof Russia Wasn’t Source of Democratic Party Leaks, Says WSJ
According to the Wall Street Journal, Republican Congressman Dana Rohrabacher of California spoke by phone on September 13th with U.S. President Donald Trump’s Chief of Staff, General John Kelly, aiming to transmit to President Trump, from Wikileaks founder Julian Assange,
a trade of
‘proof’ of Russian non-involvement in the transmission to
the public of internal Democratic Party information during the 2016
Presidential contest with Hillary Clinton, in return
for the U.S. Government’s stopping its efforts to prosecute Mr. Assange.
Assange wanted finally to become freed from his years-long virtual
house-arrest inside Ecuador’s London Embassy, by the United States
Government efforts to force him to be tried in U.S. courts. So, he wants
to offer this trade in which Assange would provide to the White House
physical ‘proof’ that Russia had nothing to do with the Democratic Party
leaks from (or what Russia’s enemies call ‘hacks’ into) Democratic
Party computers, which produced the revelations which Hillary Clinton
says cost her the 2016 election.
According to the WSJ report, General Kelly refused to inform President Trump of the offer.
The news-report was published on Friday night, September 15th, in the Wall Street Journal, and headlined “GOP
Congressman Sought Trump Deal on WikiLeaks, Russia: California’s Dana
Rohrabacher asks for pardon of Julian Assange in return for evidence
Russia wasn’t source of hacked emails”. It said:
“Mr. Kelly didn’t make the president aware of Mr. Rohrabacher’s message, and Mr. Trump doesn’t know the details of the proposed deal.”
However, the
news-report didn’t make clear whether Mr. Trump is even aware that
Congressman Rohrabacher had attempted to communicate to the President
the offer that Mr. Assange was wanting to communicate. Perhaps if Mr.
Trump reads the Wall Street Journal, he’ll learn that Mr. Assange had wanted to offer this deal.
According to the WSJ’s
report, Congressman Rohrabacher was apparently so desperate to
communicate Mr. Assange’s offer to the President, that Rohrabacher even
asked Kelly if Rohrabacher would be allowed to communicate the offer to
CIA Director Mike Pompeo, an anti-Russia hardliner, for
transmission through Pompeo, to the President. Apparently, Mr. Kelly
stovepipes to the President only information that Kelly wants the
President to know, but Trump can, on his own, learn of other information
if he sees or hears it in the newsmedia.
The WSJ’s report also noted the background of the alleged Assange offer:
Mr. Rohrabacher, who has long been a pro-Russia voice in Congress, traveled to London in August to meet with Mr. Assange, who has been living in Ecuador’s embassy since 2012 to avoid arrest and extradition to Sweden on allegations of sexual assault. Mr. Rohrabacher’s travel wasn’t paid for by the U.S. House of Representatives and wasn’t an official government trip, aides said.
The Swedish investigation into Mr. Assange ended in May, but he remains in the embassy to avoid arrest and extradition by the U.S.
Investigative historian Eric Zuesse is the author, most recently, of They’re Not Even Close: The Democratic vs. Republican Economic Records, 1910-2010, and of CHRIST’S VENTRILOQUISTS: The Event that Created Christianity.
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Copyright © Eric Zuesse, Global Research, 2017
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