Trump offered WikiLeaks' Julian Assange a pardon if he covered up Russian hacking of Democrats, lawyer tells court

Trump offered WikiLeaks's Assange pardon if he covered up Russian hacking of Democrats, lawyer says

A White House spokesman and Rohrabacher did not immediately respond to requests for comment about the claims made by Assange's lawyers.The Justice Department has said that Russian agents hacked emails from the DNC and from John Podesta, the campaign chairman for 2016 Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton, in 2016.

that members of Trump's campaign had a series of contacts with WikiLeaks and people related to its operation about the Clinton campaign emails. Trump's friend and former advisor, Republican operative Roger Stone, is due to be sentenced Thursday in federal court in Washington, D.C., for charges that relate to his lying to Congress about his contacts with WikiLeaks during the 2016 election.

Assange is currently in British custody after having been expelled from Ecuador's embassy in London, where he had lived for nearly seven years. Federal authorities want Assange to be extradited to the U.S. in order to face charges.

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