Daily Beast: “Lawyers representing the United States at Julian Assange’s extradition trial in Britain have accepted the claim that the WikiLeaks founder was offered a presidential pardon on the condition that he would help cover up Russia’s involvement in hacking emails from the Democratic National Committee. Jennifer Robinson, a lawyer, told the court that she had attended a meeting between Assange, Republican Congressman Dana Rohrabacher and pro-Trump troll Charles Johnson at the Ecuadorian embassy in London on August 15 2017.”
“She said the two Americans said they were emissaries from Washington and ‘wanted us to believe they were acting on behalf of the president.’ They said they could help grant Assange a pardon in exchange for him revealing information about the source of the WikiLeaks information that showed it was not the Russians who hacked Democratic emails. ‘They stated that President Trump was aware of and had approved of them coming to meet with Mr Assange to discuss a proposal—and that they would have an audience with the president to discuss the matter on their return to Washington, D.C.,’ she said. The White House has denied that Trump took part in any such plan.”