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A witness cited by the defense of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange says that US President Donald Trump offered the pardon if he denied Russia's involvement in an email leak in 2016.

In a preview of the Assange extradition trial to the US which will begin on the 24th in London, lawyer Edward Fitzgerald assured the court that he has evidence that former Republican Congressman Dana Rohrabacher made that offer to the Australian activist. The lawyer said that Rohrabacher visited the Ecuadorian embassy in the United Kingdom in 2017, when Assange remained insulated in its premises.

WikiLeaks, the portal founded by the activist, aired in 2016 a series of emails that affected the campaign for the presidency of the then Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton. The district judge Vanessa Baraitser considered that the evidence presented by the lawyers is admissible to be taken into account during the trial.

The United States claims Assange for 18 charges, which include alleged crimes of conspiracy and espionage, and can carry up to 175 years in jail. Initially arrested in 2010 in the United Kingdom at Sweden's request for a case of alleged sexual crimes filed today, Assange has spent the last ten years confined, first under house arrest and then at the embassy in London of Ecuador, which in 2019 withdrew him political asylum.

The 48-year-old activist awaits the judicial process in the London high security prison in Belmarsh.

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