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What does Julian say in the video?

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"UK has no sovereignty!"

"UK must resist"

"Resist this attempt by the Trump administration"

and something else when he's in the van which I can't make out with people talking over it.

> "Resist this attempt by the Trump administration"

Funny. Trump has said he loves WikiLeaks, and likely has no interest in Assange getting extradited to the US.

Problem is, Trump says a lot of things that he doesn't mean. Or he forgets, it's a little unclear.

But the American intelligence community appears very interested in the guy and is known to have been working on extradition process in 2018.

If the American intelligence community wants to extradite Assange, I don't doubt somebody high-ranking in the CIA will sit down with the president and by the end of the meeting, have him thoroughly convinced that he's wanted Assange's extradition all along. They have agents trained in psychological operations and negotiation, and Trump is demonstrably an easy mark.

> Problem is, Trump says a lot of things that he doesn't mean. Or he forgets, it's a little unclear.

Unlikely, as it could play a big role in the whole ongoing public debate about the Trump-Russia connection.

> But the American intelligence community appears very interested in the guy and is known to have been working on extradition process in 2018.

Yep, but "Trump administration" seems to suggest that Trump is directing this, which seems comical to me.

I'm not clear why the U.S. president should be in the loop here anyway. Who makes the decision to prosecute in such cases?

Federal attorneys are appointed by the President, and can also be fired by the President at his discretion.

funny? probably not.

And as for no interest in extraditing him, he was arrested in response to a US extradition request.

https://www.theguardian.com/media/live/2019/apr/11/wikileaks...

The US, and the MET police, have already confirmed that Assange has been re-arrested for an extradition warrant to the US.

I have found very little correlation between the things Trump says and the things he does, or even the things he says later.

I think in the USA is exactly where Trump wants Assange.

I'm reminded of Bush Sr keeping Panama's President Manuel Noriega in cold storage.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manuel_Noriega#Prosecution_in_...

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