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Julian Assange: Trump 'offered pardon for Russia denial'
witness Julian Assange 's extradition hearing claim by President Donald Trump , the founder of Wikileaks, offered a pardon, if he said, Russia is not leaking the E-Mails was involved in during the US election.
Assange's lawyer, revealed The Claim in the Westminster Magistrates' Court prior to the extradition hearing in the next week.
District Judge Vanessa Baraitser ruled The Witness evidence is admissible.
Assange over the leaked diplomatic cables, is wanted in the US on 18 charges.
Assange's lawyer, Edward Fitzgerald QC told the court it was a proof of the statement that the former U.S. Republican Congressman Dana Rohrabacher made the offer.
Mr. Rohrabacher visited the Ecuadorian Embassy in August 2017, where Mr was Assange, he said.
Mr Fitzgerald said a statement from Assange lawyer Jennifer Robinson shows, "Mr. Rohrabacher to see Mr Assange, and said that on the instructions of The President , he was the offer of a pardon or in a different way from when Mr Assange. said Russia had nothing to do with the DNC leaks. "
A series of embarrassing E-Mails leaked from the Democratic National Congress (DNC) and Hillary Clinton's presidential campaign have been hacked prior to its publication by WikiLeaks in the year 2016.
with the DNC hack.
Assange faces up to 175 years in prison if found guilty of the charges he faces in the United States.
The 18 charges include conspiring to commit computer intrusion, and hundreds of thousands of relate to the publication of secret documents leaked by former U.S. army intelligence analyst Chelsea Manning a decade ago.
His extradition hearing is due to start at Woolwich Crown Court on Monday, starting with a week of legal argument.
It is then postponed due prior to the recovery prove to the 18 with three weeks.
Assange has been held, the remand in Belmarsh prison since last September, after a 50-week prison sentence for breach of bail conditions.
He went into the Ecuadorian Embassy to avoid in 2012, extradition to Sweden on allegations of sexual assault that he always denied and which were later dropped.
russia, wikileaks, donald trump, julian assange
Source of news: bbc.com