The admission confirms that Rohrabacher offered the deal to Assange and believed he could secure a pardon should Assange deliver evidence favorable to Trump.
Dana Rohrabacher, a former California congressman and vocal defender of President Donald Trump, confirmed Julian Assange’s allegation that Rohrabacher had promised him a pardon from Trump if the WikiLeaks founder could provide evidence that Russia was not behind the hacking of Democratic National Committee emails published by WikiLeaks.
The admission does not mean that Trump offered a pardon to the WikiLeaks founder in exchange for information that would contradict his own intelligence community’s findings and support a conspiracy theory damaging to Democrats. Instead, it only confirms that Rohrabacher offered the deal to Assange and believed he could secure a pardon should Assange deliver the exculpatory evidence.
Assange’s lawyer said in court on Wednesday that Rohrabacher had met with his client in August 2017 to offer the deal on Trump’s behalf, with the goal of finding evidence to deny Russian involvement with the DNC hack. Assange is being held in London as he faces an extradition request from the U.S. related to the publication of national security information, stemming from the 2010 publication of classified military and diplomatic documents leaked to the group by Chelsea Manning., Rohrabacher said that he had never broached the topic with Trump, but that in the meeting with Assange at the Ecuadorian Embassy in London, he had solicited evidence that instead of Russia, it was the murdered DNC staffer Seth Rich who had been behind the hacking.
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