White House, Rohrabacher Deny Assange’s Claim of Pardon Offer

Rep. Dana Rohrabacher (R-Calif.) in Costa Mesa, Calif., on Nov. 6, 2018. David McNew/Getty Images

Both the White House and former Rep. Dana Rohrabacher (R-Calif.) have denied offering WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange a pardon in exchange for his denying Russian involvement in stealing emails from the Democratic National Committee (DNC) in 2016.

One of Assange’s lawyers, Edward Fitzgerald, said in British court on Feb. 19 that Rohrabacher made the offer on behalf of President Donald Trump when visiting Assange at the Ecuadorian Embassy in London in 2017.