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Not much you can do. If you're American, you could try to find which presidential candidate wants to pardon Assange and then vote for her.

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This is funny. People used to recommend calling/mailing your local Congress representative and try to get them to do something about their particular concern. Now that Congress is completely partisan and just follows the top down party line, people are recommending to do one of the least effective way for a single person to effect change, electing the President, where even a single person in a swing state has a minuscule chance of affecting the outcome.

I believe they were talking about electing the third party candidate from the PSL.

Don't even know what to say about this. I'll probably vote third party but I'm not going to pretend it's going to have any effect whatsoever on what the eventual Democrat or Republican president would do about Assange.

I agree, it won't do much, I just wanted to clarify what I'm pretty sure they meant.

I was not specifically talking about the PSL. But you could pick a president by sortition of eligible citizens and practically be guaranteed a better choice than Biden or Trump.

Reportedly, Trump said he would pardon Assange if Assange gave him Hillary's emails.

The report was that he offered to pardon him in exchange for saying "who" the emails were from. They already had the emails - that's what Stone and Assange were doing together

Ok, thank you for the correction. Even better would be offering a link :-)

... What?

You didn't offer a link for your claim; why would you ask for a link to a fact easily findable in the search engine of your choice?

Mueller report, and the recent senate report/committee result which I'm not sure of the name of.

The thing with the pardon is from Assange's lawyer IIRC

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-britain-assange/assange-l...

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