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Trump offered to pardon Assange if he denied Russia helped leak Democrats’ emails: lawyer

  • Georgi Gotev--Euractiv.com
  • published date: 2020-02-20 06:48:51 UTC

US President Donald Trump offered to pardon WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange if he said that Russia had nothing to do with WikiLeaks’ publication of Democratic Party emails in 2016, a London court heard on Wednesday (19 February).

US President Donald Trump offered to pardon WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange if he said that Russia had nothing to do with WikiLeaks publication of Democratic Party emails in 2016, a London court heard on Wednesday (19 February). Assange appeared by videolin… [+2809 chars]