But Rohrabacher hasn't even talked to anyone in the White House about the pardon, so this is really just nothing. He doesn't have the authority to go handing out pardons. Not to mention the fact that Wikileaks has never revealed a source. I don't expect them to start now.
The RNC thing feels like a cover story to paper over why Assange and Rohrabacher actually spoke. I mean Assange has a lawyer right? Could his lawyer convey any information/offer to the Justice Department? Has anyone heard of Rohrabacher having any special pull with Trump previously? I have not.
The other odd bit about this is Julian Assange has steadfastly denied that accusations that he works closely with Russia. Yet he chooses Rohrabacher as his intermediary? Rohrabacher is known as "Putin's favorite Congressman" and people have even speculated that he is a paid Russian asset. In 2012, the FBI warned him that the Russia was trying to recruit him.
House GOP Leader Kevin McCarthy was recorded saying he believes Putin pays Rohrabacher (and Trump.) This was denied at first until the Washinton Post produced the recording. He said this Paul Ryan, Steve Scalise and other House leaders. The story was then changed to, it was just a bad joke.
A month before Donald Trump clinched the Republican nomination, one of his closest allies in Congress — House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy — made a politically explosive assertion in a private conversation on Capitol Hill with his fellow GOP leaders: that Trump could be the beneficiary of payments from Russian President Vladimir Putin.
“There’s two people I think Putin pays: Rohrabacher and Trump,” McCarthy (R-Calif.) said, according to a recording of the June 15, 2016, exchange, which was listened to and verified by The Washington Post. Rep. Dana Rohrabacher is a Californian Republican known in Congress as a fervent defender of Putin and Russia.
Apparently Rohrabacher was being considered for Secretary of State last year
A group of transition advisers including Blackwater Worldwide founder Erik Prince – a Rohrabacher intern more than a quarter-century ago - are pushing the Trump team to consider the congressman
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But Rohrabacher hasn't even talked to anyone in the White House about the pardon, so this is really just nothing. He doesn't have the authority to go handing out pardons. Not to mention the fact that Wikileaks has never revealed a source. I don't expect them to start now.
RweSure ago
The RNC thing feels like a cover story to paper over why Assange and Rohrabacher actually spoke. I mean Assange has a lawyer right? Could his lawyer convey any information/offer to the Justice Department? Has anyone heard of Rohrabacher having any special pull with Trump previously? I have not.
The other odd bit about this is Julian Assange has steadfastly denied that accusations that he works closely with Russia. Yet he chooses Rohrabacher as his intermediary? Rohrabacher is known as "Putin's favorite Congressman" and people have even speculated that he is a paid Russian asset. In 2012, the FBI warned him that the Russia was trying to recruit him.
http://www.politico.com/story/2016/11/putin-congress-rohrabacher-trump-231775
https://www.wired.com/2017/05/even-dana-rohrabacher-russian-asset-know/
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/19/us/politics/dana-rohrabacher-russia-spies.html
House GOP Leader Kevin McCarthy was recorded saying he believes Putin pays Rohrabacher (and Trump.) This was denied at first until the Washinton Post produced the recording. He said this Paul Ryan, Steve Scalise and other House leaders. The story was then changed to, it was just a bad joke.
So why did Assange choose this guy?
RweSure ago
Apparently Rohrabacher was being considered for Secretary of State last year
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4001582/Anyone-fancy-Secretary-State-California-Rep-Dana-Rohrabacher-says-talks-Trump-saying-backs-president-elect-China-Russia.html#ixzz4q2kqCCSg