President-Elect Trump urged to pardon Wikileaks’ Julian Assange
While many people are taking bows for Donald Trump’s ascension to the U.S. Presidency, millions of supporters are voicing their requests on social media for President Trump to grant a full pardon to WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange considering his role in releasing emails that strongly suggested a hotbed of corruption linked to Democrat Hillary Clinton.
Despite battling his opponent’s campaign team and surrogates, the Democratic National Committee, the majority of print and broadcast news outlets, George Soros funded political-activist organizations, and the majority of those “big names” working in the entertainment and sports industries, the GOP presidential candidate Donald Trump was aided by some of the most surprising people and groups. And arguably the most helpful in his victory over the Democratic Party’s “sainted” Hillary Clinton was the notorious creator of Wikileaks, Julian Assange.
Releasing a barrage of material hacked from the computer systems of the Democratic National Committee and that which belonged to Hillary Clinton’s campaign manager John Podesta, Assange was successful in practically drowning the nation in material that exposed the inner-workings of a corrupt, dishonest, cynical and sometimes criminal political operation. While the Clinton supporters in the media — some even admitted their culpability — attempted to spin or minimize the flood of allegations that resulted from Assange’s material, somehow the message got through to tens of millions of voters: Hillary Clinton was unfit to Command.
“President-elect Donald Trump is being called upon by several people on social media to grant pardon to WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange considering the latter’s role in releasing controversial emails linked to Democrat Hillary Clinton.”
Julian Assange, the editor-in-chief of one of the world’s most prolific whistleblower organizations, is being investigated in the Bradley Manning — now named Chelsea Manning after a sex-change operation — case and the U.S. government has requested for his extradition to answer for his crimes of stealing classified information.
During the late part of the 2016 presidential election cycle, Assange’s WikiLeaks released tens of thousands of pages of emails from Clinton’s home-cooked, private server, the database from the Democratic National Committee offices, and Clinton’s campaign manager John Podesta. Many of Trumps supporters — and even his hate filled enemies — are claiming Trump’s win is the result of leaked emails that led to disappointment in Hillary Clinton’s suitability to lead the nation already crippled by eight years of a rudderless administration.
Australian legislator Pauline Hanson, the leader of the country’s conservative party, released a statement requesting Trump to grant a full pardon to Assange who started his career as Australian computer programmer.
“It isn’t immediately clear how a U.S. president can grant a pardon to Assange when he is actually wanted in Sweden over sexual assault charges. Actually, U.S. law enforcement officials have not charged Assange with anything,” said former police investigator Tony LaBonna. “The U.S. could offer him asylum, but that may become a political time bomb for a President who faces an angry news media who want him to fall flat on his face,” LaBonna said.
“Julian clearly helped his cause and Trump is a loyal guy (supposedly). Julian is a hero not a criminal,” one Facebook member wrote in a discussion.
Clearly, no ‘Presidential Pardon’ can be forthcoming to a person that has not been charged. To do so would set precedent to ‘ pre-indictment pardon’ of the Clinton Crime Inc. However, The Wikileaks organization has provided an amazing analytical tools of for Legal Investigative Authorities, to harness the broad powers of citizen ‘sourced news and connectivity’ to ‘keep the bar of accountability’ suitably high.
I might suggest granting the Wikileaks Organization an asylum ‘position, under the American Journalism/Investigation Estate , with the broad understanding that they continue their history of high standard of integrity in releasing ‘corruption and leaks’ .
Our Journalism and media used to have that role, and been found itself, to become corrupted, so it falls to the citizens both left and right to step up and step in, forming a new path. The mandate is clear.
Character Counts, Truth Matters, Courage is Contagious. The Sun has never shined on a cause of greater worth. It is not about Left or Right, but about Right and Wrong. It is up to us to be the change we want to see.
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As a whistleblower myself, I, Susan Lindauer stand together with hundreds of millions of citizens from around the world to implore President-elect Obama to pardon BOTH Julian Assange AND Private Bradley Manning. Julian’s contribution to exposing Hillary Clinton’s Crimes of Corruption against the State was vital to defeating her grip on U.S politics. But we must not forget that Bradley Manning played a vital role in helping WIKILEAKS expose Hillary’ Clinton’s crimes at the State Department.
We therefore urgently plead for an immediate commutation of sentence for Bradley Manning, who has already served 6 1/2 years of a 35 year sentence. He was accused of copying and distributing State Department cables. Many agree his 35 year sentence is excessive. He could be released with time served, and as of February 1, it would amount to a 7 year sentence– equal to 10 years in federal prison with good behavior.
That’s reasonable and approximate to other sentences served by individuals for the same crimes. Let us not forget that Hillary Clinton targeted Bradley Manning malicously, while we have now discovered that she herself violated many of the same laws for handling classified intelligence, which she is now demanding to receive a Presidential Pardon for.
We seek fairness in application of the law on behalf of Julian Assange and Bradley Manning.
please replace my earlier comment with this one!
As a whistleblower myself, I, Susan Lindauer stand together with hundreds of millions of citizens from around the world to implore President-elect Trump to pardon BOTH Julian Assange AND Private Bradley Manning. Julian’s contribution to exposing Hillary Clinton’s Crimes of Corruption against the State was vital to defeating her grip on U.S politics. But we must not forget that Bradley Manning played a vital role in helping WIKILEAKS expose Hillary’ Clinton’s crimes at the State Department.
We therefore urgently plead for an immediate commutation of sentence for Bradley Manning, who has already served 6 1/2 years of a 35 year sentence. He was accused of copying and distributing State Department cables. Many agree his 35 year sentence is excessive. He could be released with time served, and as of February 1, it would amount to a 7 year sentence– equal to 10 years in federal prison with good behavior.
That’s reasonable and approximate to other sentences served by individuals for the same crimes. Let us not forget that Hillary Clinton targeted Bradley Manning malicously, while we have now discovered that she herself violated many of the same laws for handling classified intelligence, which she is now demanding to receive a Presidential Pardon for.
We seek fairness in application of the law on behalf of Julian Assange and Bradley Manning.