A lawyer said Friday that in 2017, she witnessed a former GOP congressman dangle a pardon from President Donald Trump before her client, Julian Assange.<br />Jennifer Robinson's testimony was part of Assange's ongoing UK extradition trial. She said the congressman was then US Representative Dana Rohrabacher.<br />Robinson explained that the pardon was in exchange for identifying the source of the leaked DNC documents distributed by WikiLeaks during the 2016 election.<br />In 2018, the US Justice Department indicted 12 Russian intelligence officers accusing them of being behind the DNC leak.<br />Assange has stuck to his story that he did not work with the Russian government in the course of distributing the material.<br />According to Gizmodo, a lawyer representing the US says they will not dispute Robinson's testimony.
