Rohrabacher wants Rand to get message to Trump - about deal with Assange
Dana Rohrabacher spoke with Rand about Julian Assange, hoping that Rand could get the message to Trump - about divulging the true source of the leaked emails if Assange is assured that he won't be prosecuted.
http://dailycaller.com/2017/10/10/ro...us-government/
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Rohrabacher, Rand Paul Met To Discuss Assange Giving Up WikiLeaks Source To US Government
ALEX PFEIFFER White House Correspondent
2:10 PM 10/10/2017
Republican California Rep. Dana Rohrabacher met with Republican Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul
last Thursday and discussed leveraging Paul’s close relationship with President Donald Trump to let the president know that WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange is willing to divulge information about the source of leaked emails.
Rep. Rohrabacher told The Daily Caller about the meeting during a phone interview
Tuesday.
“Rand Paul says the president calls him every now and then. I wanted to make sure that when [Trump] calls him that [Paul] knew enough about the Julian Assange offer that I found something of value for the president to look at,” Rohrabacher told TheDC.
He added that Paul was
“very open to the idea of mentioning it to the president next time the president called him.”
Sen. Paul’s office declined to comment. Rohrabacher said that Paul was j
oined by a few of his staffers, and that the California congressman brought along top aide Paul Behrends and conservative journalist Charles C. Johnson.
Rohrabacher met with Assange at the Ecuadorian embassy in London in August in a meeting that Johnson claimed to have arranged...
... The meeting with Paul came a week after
Rohrabacher told TheDC that top White House aides are blocking information about the WikiLeaks founder’s offer to prove that Russia was not behind the hacking and leaking of Democratic National Committee emails during the 2016 election. The U.S. intelligence community has alleged that the Kremlin was, in fact, involved....
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update - Not quite accurate
Assange says this is not entirely correct.
http://dailycaller.com/2017/10/10/ro...us-government/
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Update:
Assange disputed some of Rohrabacher’s comments in a tweet Wednesday.
Disgraceful reporting. WikiLeaks never has and never will reveal a source. Offers have been made to me–not the other way around. I do not speak to the public through third parties. — Julian Assange
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