{"id":81380,"date":"2017-08-18T16:42:03","date_gmt":"2017-08-18T20:42:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=81380"},"modified":"2017-08-18T16:42:41","modified_gmt":"2017-08-18T20:42:41","slug":"assange-russia-was-not-his-source-for-the-dnc-podesta-leaks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=81380","title":{"rendered":"Assange: &#8216;Russia was not his source for the DNC \/ Podesta leaks&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>Trump Jr. Follows Julian Assange, Sparks Media Panic That A Presidential Pardon Is In The Works<\/h1>\n<p><!--more-->ZeroHedge.com<\/p>\n<p>Earlier this week\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/news\/2017-08-17\/assange-vows-proof-russia-was-not-his-source-3-hour-meeting-congressman\">we noted<\/a>\u00a0that Representative Dana Rohrabacher (R-CA) had a three hour meeting with Julian Assange at the Ecuadorian embassy in London to discuss &#8216;helpful&#8217; information which Assange purported would prove that Russia was not his source for the DNC \/ Podesta leaks last year.<\/p>\n<p>Not surprisingly, the mainstream media chose not to focus on that angle and decided instead to focus all of their efforts on branding Rohrabacher as a Russian spy.\u00a0 That said, here is how Rohrabacher recounted the details of the meeting with Assange to\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/thehill.com\/policy\/cybersecurity\/346904-assange-meets-us-congressman-vows-to-prove-russia-did-not-leak-him\">The Hill<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<div class=\"quote_start\">\u00a0\u201cOur three-hour meeting covered a wide array of issues, including the WikiLeaks exposure of the DNC emails during last year&#8217;s presidential election,\u201d Rohrabacher said,\u00a0\u00a0<strong>\u201cJulian emphatically stated that the Russians were not involved in the hacking or disclosure of those emails.&#8221;<\/strong><\/div>\n<p>Pressed for more detail on the source of the documents,\u00a0<strong>Rohrabacher said he had information to share privately with President Donald Trump.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u201cJulian also indicated that he is open to further discussions regarding specific information about the DNC email incident that is currently unknown to the public,\u201d\u00a0<\/strong>he added.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Now, the following tweet from an account that tracks the every move of the Trump family has sparked new speculation that a Presidential pardon of Julian Assange may be in the works&#8230;something that is undoubtedly not all that palatable to our friends at CNN and MSNBC.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">DonaldJTrumpJr has just followed @JulianAssange.<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Trump Alert (@TrumpsAlert) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TrumpsAlert\/status\/898507291955044352?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 18, 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile,\u00a0<strong>we would note that Jr. is also a long-time follower of @wikileaks so that must necessarily mean that he coordinated the DNC \/ Podesta hacks directly with them.<\/strong>\u00a0 Combine that with the fact that we&#8217;re almost certain that parsing through the nearly 1,200 accounts that Jr. follows would also reveal at least a couple of Russian sounding names and we&#8217;re pretty sure that Mueller&#8217;s grand jury has all they need for an indictment.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Of course, if Assange really has concrete evidence that his source is anyone other than a Kremlin-connected official then you would think that information might be deemed useful to Special Counsel Mueller since it&#8217;s basically the only reason his investigation exists in the first place.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Moreover, one would think that an immunity deal for Assange in return for such information would also be reasonable&#8230;rendering a presidential pardon moot.\u00a0<strong>Certainly, the majority of Hillary&#8217;s staff was granted immunity deals for far less useful information&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>___<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/news\/2017-08-18\/trump-jr-follows-julian-assange-sparks-media-panic-presidential-pardon-works\">http:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/news\/2017-08-18\/trump-jr-follows-julian-assange-sparks-media-panic-presidential-pardon-works<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Trump Jr. Follows Julian Assange, Sparks Media Panic That A Presidential Pardon Is In The Works<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-81380","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81380","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=81380"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81380\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=81380"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=81380"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=81380"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}