?

How in the fuck am I saying that?

lol

akchually buzzfeed said it was true so it is

Buzzfeed's investigative reporters are top-notch btw.

Now that you mention it.

They won't tell you that on Hannity though.

But yeah Trump has nothing to gain from any pardon deal on this so eh

it's really extremely unlikely but we'll wait it out

Trump has nothing to gain from one of the central figures declaring that Russia wasn't involved?

That's mind-blowingly short-sighted.

Impressive.

https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/assange-asks-for-pardon/

Hahahaha

People like fact-checks here

so I figured I'd throw it in

That's from 2016.

Yeah and now he's trying to say it was the other way around

> Julian Assange asked President-Elect Donald Trump for a pardon in exchange for his help in defeating Hillary Clinton.

Do you see how that's not the same?

He says Trump offered

Back then, he was begging him

He's trying to turn it around, yeah

oke

https://www.theverge.com/2016/9/16/12939232/julian-assange-wikileaks-chelsea-manning-obama

Here he asks Obama

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2017/01/assange-weasels-out-of-pledge-to-surrender-if-manning-received-clemency/

Then he said nah

Oh hey look I found the story of today

but 3 years ago

https://thehill.com/policy/technology/348773-could-trump-pardon-assange

You do understand in today's story there was a lawyer and a court room involved?

It's the same story

`The deal Rohrabacher is trying to cut: pardon Assange in exchange for information he claims proves Russia did not collude with the Trump campaign during the 2016 presidential race.`

So we'll just have to wait for the evidence then

What will Assange prove, that Russia was involved or that they weren't?

We're gonna have to wait and see

Oh, okay.

so breaking news appears to be not-so-breaking news

the framing is new tho

The meeting and the offer were made ten months after Julian Assange had already independently stated Russia was not the source of the DNC publication.