The proposal would have been made to Assange by some Trump confidants, the lawyer said in a statement before the court in London. Since this week, he has been considering the extradition request from the US, which wants Assange to be tried in the US.
Image damage Hillary
E-mails from the Democratic party leaked through the whistleblower website WikiLeaks in 2016, which caused a lot of image damage to presidential candidate Hillary Clinton and thus, according to many, gave Trump the election victory.
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WikiLeaks repeatedly published enormous amounts of confidential US documents in the years before that embarrassed the government, causing Assange to be wanted by the US government for some time.
Diplomatic messages
For example, a video was leaked via the site showing how a US army helicopter over Baghdad is targeting civilians, apparently deliberately. In 2010, the site also leaked more than 250,000 confidential diplomatic messages sent to Washington by US embassies around the world.
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Since that year, Assange had been on the run from the US government. For a long time he was in hiding in the Ecuadorian embassy in London, but that country had him arrested by British police last year.
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