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Stella Moris’ last minute pardon appeal for Julian Assange: ‘The first amendment is on the verge of extinction…pardoning Assange can save it.’

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Stella Moris has issued a last minute appeal to President Donald Trump Wednesday during his last hour in office. She is asking him to pardon her partner and father of her two children Wikileaks fonder Julian Assange, who is now being held in a prison just outside of London, as U.S. officials continue to pursue charges against Assange for publishing a trove of classified U.S. documents.

A litany of Assange supporters have come forward to appeal for Assange’s pardon but the list of pardons released from the White House Wednesday morning did not include Assange’s name.

“I am issuing a last minute plea to the President to do the right thing,” said Moris. “He can still do it. Mr. President you can still pardon Julian if you want to. The first amendment is on the verge of extinction, and pardoning Julian can save it. People from across politics are clamoring for this to happen. It is the most popular move that you can possibly make as you leave your presidency.”

Jordan Schachtel, an independent journalist, brought up an important point on Twitter regarding the intelligence community’s pursuit of Assange and how some of the bureaucracies senior officials target Trump:

“It’s difficult to interpret a non pardon on Snowden and Assange as anything other than bending the knee to the deep state,” he Tweeted. “Rough way to go out. Full surrender to the people who made it there mission to ruin him (Trump). Mission Accomplished.”

(NOTE: Schachtel included Edward Snowden, but in my opinion Snowden who worked as a contractor for the U.S. government and signed a non-disclosure agreement under his security clearance was under far different circumstances than Assange)

In early January, British District Judge Vanessa Baraister ruled that Assange should not be extradited to the U.S. to face charges. However, the judge refused to grant bail to WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange. He is in a prison just outside London. r

The U.S. government is continuing to pursue charges against him and Trump’s outspoken stance on against the actions of the U.S. intelligence community during his tenure had given Assange some hope that his case would be pardoned.

It still might be.

On Monday, the same magistrate, District Judge Vanessa Baraitser, ruled that Assange should not be extradited to the United States to face charges of violating the Espionage Act, because he is at extreme risk of suicide and might not be protected from harming himself in a U.S. prison.

Assange has been held in London’s Belmarsh prison since leaving the Ecuadoran Embassy two years ago after his asylum was revoked. The U.S. has charged him with 18 federal crimes, including conspiring to obtain and disclose classified diplomatic cables and sensitive military reports from the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.

It’s interesting that senior Obama officials were and are so intent on getting Assange (who is not an American citizen and operated as a publisher) when President Obama commuted the sentence of Chelsea Manning on May 27, 2010 who actually held a security clearance and literally handed over troves of classified information to Assange’s WikiLeaks.

Manning, who received a gender reassignment, walked out of Fort Leavenworth and with Obama’s commutation avoided a 35 year prison sentence.

You can follow Sara A. Carter on Twitter @SaraCarterDC

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RFK Jr. announces lifelong Democrat, advocate of left-leaning causes, CA native as running mate

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Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. announced Tuesday that attorney and tech entrepreneur Nicole Shanahan will be his vice presidential running mate in the upcoming election. The Independent candidate announced his choice for the 38-year-old Oakland, California native by praising her insight into “how Big Tech uses AI to manipulate the public,” her athletic ability, and willingness to be a “partner” in a number of policy areas, including on securing the border.

Fox News writes that Shanahan is a philanthropist with a long history of donating to Democrat and left-leaning causes, including supporting President Biden in his 2020 election bid before switching to Kennedy when he launched his own run for the Democrat nomination last year.

She is the founder and president of Bia-Echo Foundation, a private firm that describes its mission as focused on “new frontiers in reproductive longevity & equality, criminal justice reform and a healthy & livable planet.”

Fox News reports Shanahan initially dropped her support for Kennedy after he decided to run as an independent, but later got behind him again by giving $4 million to the super PAC that boosted his candidacy with a John F. Kennedy-themed campaign ad that ran during the Super Bowl in February.

Shanahan also previously donated to Democrat presidential candidates Marianne Williamson and Pete Buttigieg during the 2020 presidential race, and threw more than $150,000 behind progressive Los Angeles District Attorney George Gascon’s 2020 election bid.

Shanahan, a life-long Democrat, told the crowd that she was leaving the party.

“The Democratic Party is supposed to be the party of compassion. It is supposed to be the party of free speech, and most importantly, the party of the middle class and the American dream,” Shanahan said.

“While I know many Democrats still abide by those values…I do believe they’ve lost their way in their leadership,” she continued.

And she urged “disillusioned” Democrats and Republicans to support Kennedy’s independent White House bid.

 

 

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