View source for Wikileaks Quid Pro Quo

A few FakeNews outlets like The Daily Beast, Sky News, Bloomberg and CNBC claimed that "Trump (through Dana Rohrabacher as the intermediary) offered WikiLeaks' Julian Assange a pardon... if he covered up Russian hacking of Democrats, his lawyer tells court in the U.K."... only the meeting happened 10 months '''AFTER''' Assange had stated multiple times that "he was 1000% sure the Russians" weren't his source, the Trump administration denied it, and Assange's lawyer that informed Gen. Kelly that "Assange would provide information about the purloined DNC emails in exchange for a pardon," but he never heard back from the White House (not the other way around). So instead of a scandal, it exonerates Trump as behaving better than Democrats (who did reach out to Russians over potential oppo-research / dirt). But other than getting the story bass-backwards, and failing to correct it (or correct it slowly), good job.  
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* Corrected: https://www.zerohedge.com/political/assange-lawyer-says-trump-offered-pardon-exonerating-russia-over-leaks-white-house-denies
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* https://www.cnbc.com/amp/2020/02/19/trump-offered-julian-assange-pardon-for-covering-up-russian-hacking.html
* https://www.thedailybeast.com/trump-offered-assange-pardon-if-he-covered-up-russian-hack-court-hears?ref=author
* https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2020/02/19/julian-assange-wikileaks-founder-offered-pardon-trump-lawyer-says/4810561002/
* SkyNews: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TzVZXFrxGW0
* https://time.com/4620806/julian-assange-russia-hack-fox-hannity/
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