WikiLeaks founder
Julian Assange plans to claim during an extradition hearing that the Trump administration offered him a pardon if he agreed to say
Russia was not involved in leaking
Democratic National Committee emails during the 2016 U.S.
election campaign, a lawyer for Assange said Wednesday. Assange is being held at a
British prison while fighting extradition to the
United States on spying charges. At a preliminary hearing held Wednesday in London, lawyer Edward Fitzgerald said that now-former
Republican congressman, Dana Rohrabacher, visited Assange at the Ecuadorian Embassy in
London in August 2017.