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“There’s two people I think Putin pays: Rohrabacher and Trump,” McCarthy (R-Calif.) said
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
By Byron Tau,Peter Nicholas and Siobhan Hughes
Updated Sept. 15, 2017 6:06 p.m. ET
A U.S. congressman contacted the White House this week trying to broker a deal that would end WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange’s U.S. legal troubles in exchange for what he described as evidence that Russia wasn’t the source of hacked emails published by the antisecrecy website during the 2016 presidential campaign.
The proposal made by Rep. Dana Rohrabacher (R., Calif.), in a phone call Wednesday with White House Chief of Staff John Kelly, was apparently aimed at resolving the probe of WikiLeaks prompted by Assange’s publication of secret U.S. government documents in 2010 through a pardon or other act of clemency from President Donald Trump.
The possible “deal” -- a term used by Rohrabacher during the Wednesday phone call -- would involve a pardon of Assange or “something like that,” Rohrabacher said. In exchange, Assange would probably present a computer drive or other data-storage device that Rohrabacher said would exonerate Russia in the long-running controversy about who was the source of hacked and stolen material aimed at embarrassing the Democratic Party during the 2016 election.
“He would get nothing, obviously, if what he gave us was not proof,” Rohrabacher said.
Rohrabacher confirmed he spoke to Kelly this week but declined to discuss the content of their conversation. “I can’t confirm or deny anything about a private conversation at that level,” he said in a brief interview. He declined to elaborate further.
A Trump administration official confirmed Friday that Rohrabacher spoke to Kelly about the plan involving Assange.
An expanded version of this report is available at WSJ.com.
http://www.marketwatch.com/story/go...-deal-on-wikileaks-russia-2017-09-15-18103538
“There’s two people I think Putin pays: Rohrabacher and Trump,” McCarthy (R-Calif.) said
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
By Byron Tau,Peter Nicholas and Siobhan Hughes
Updated Sept. 15, 2017 6:06 p.m. ET
A U.S. congressman contacted the White House this week trying to broker a deal that would end WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange’s U.S. legal troubles in exchange for what he described as evidence that Russia wasn’t the source of hacked emails published by the antisecrecy website during the 2016 presidential campaign.
The proposal made by Rep. Dana Rohrabacher (R., Calif.), in a phone call Wednesday with White House Chief of Staff John Kelly, was apparently aimed at resolving the probe of WikiLeaks prompted by Assange’s publication of secret U.S. government documents in 2010 through a pardon or other act of clemency from President Donald Trump.
The possible “deal” -- a term used by Rohrabacher during the Wednesday phone call -- would involve a pardon of Assange or “something like that,” Rohrabacher said. In exchange, Assange would probably present a computer drive or other data-storage device that Rohrabacher said would exonerate Russia in the long-running controversy about who was the source of hacked and stolen material aimed at embarrassing the Democratic Party during the 2016 election.
“He would get nothing, obviously, if what he gave us was not proof,” Rohrabacher said.
Rohrabacher confirmed he spoke to Kelly this week but declined to discuss the content of their conversation. “I can’t confirm or deny anything about a private conversation at that level,” he said in a brief interview. He declined to elaborate further.
A Trump administration official confirmed Friday that Rohrabacher spoke to Kelly about the plan involving Assange.
An expanded version of this report is available at WSJ.com.
http://www.marketwatch.com/story/go...-deal-on-wikileaks-russia-2017-09-15-18103538
