It doesn’t say if he knows the source, and if he declined?
But in my view, Assange is unprincipled enough that he'll say whatever Trump/the thugs running the West wants, so he can be freed. Or to paint it in a different light, they're torturing him so he'll say whatever they want him to say.
The fact that he didn't go with the pardon offer this very page is discussing suggests that this is wrong. You don't think Assange had options to be freed in the past however many years?
"biased hit piece" indeed