Late on Friday, the Wall Street Journal reported that Julian Assange might be able to provide proof that there’s no truth to the Russia collusion narrative – even as Facebook’s claim it may have sold $100,000 worth of ads to Russians supposedly seeking to bolster Trump’s campaign has revived the narrative in the eyes of Trump’s political opponents.
According to WSJ, US congressman Dana Rohrabacher approached Trump’s Chief of Staff John Kelly this week and offered him a deal: in exchange for a presidential pardon, Wikileaks founder Julian Assange would share evidence that could refute the narrative of Russian hacking into the DNC servers which released a trove of emails revealing that the DNC favored Clinton over rival Bernie Sanders during the 2016 primary. The leaked emails were widely blamed by liberals (and, of course, Hillary Clinton herself) for helping Trump win the 2016 election.
If, on the other hand Assange provided no definitive evidence, there would be no deal.
‘The possible ‘deal’ – a term used by Mr. Rohrabacher during the Wednesday phone call – would involve a pardon of Mr. Assange or ‘something like that,’ Mr. Rohrabacher said. In exchange, Mr. Assange would probably present a computer drive or other data-storage device that Mr. 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,’ Mr. Rohrabacher said.
This post was published at Zero Hedge on Sep 15, 2017.
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