{"id":2018312,"date":"2023-08-31T16:01:01","date_gmt":"2023-08-31T20:01:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/vivek-ramaswamy-pledges-to-pardon-julian-assange-anti-american-publisher-of-us-secrets\/"},"modified":"2023-08-31T16:02:15","modified_gmt":"2023-08-31T20:02:15","slug":"vivek-ramaswamy-pledges-to-pardon-julian-assange-anti-american-publisher-of-us-secrets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/vivek-ramaswamy-pledges-to-pardon-julian-assange-anti-american-publisher-of-us-secrets\/","title":{"rendered":"Vivek Ramaswamy vows to forgive Julian Assange, US secrets&#8217; publisher."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">20<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fvivek-ramaswamy-pledges-to-pardon-julian-assange-anti-american-publisher-of-us-secrets%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2018312&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div>\n<figure><figcaption>(Photos by Chris J Ratcliffe\/Getty Images and Win McNamee\/Getty\u200c Images)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<h2>Presidential Hopeful Vivek Ramaswamy Vows\u200c to Pardon Julian Assange<\/h2>\n<p>Republican presidential hopeful Vivek Ramaswamy made \u2062a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/metoo-tweets-from-andrew-cuomo-that-aged-horribly\/\" title=\"#MeToo Tweets From Andrew Cuomo That Aged Horribly\">bold statement<\/a>, declaring that if <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/joe-biden-knows-he-messed-up-on-fracking-at-debate-and-is-now-doing-damage-control-the-daily-wire\/\" title=\"Joe Biden Knows He Messed Up On Fracking At Debate And Is Now Doing Damage Control | The Daily Wire\">elected president<\/a>, he would pardon anti-American \u200dhacker Julian Assange.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I will pardon\u2062 Julian\u200d Assange on Jan 20, 2025,&#8221; Ramaswamy <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/vivekgramaswamy\/status\/1697240046716309848?s=46&#038;t=Dgj1KaOHPy4rs_iJlZDMFQ\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">tweeted<\/a> \u2063on Thursday. \u200d&#8221;It is\u200d downright shameful that President\u200d Obama commuted the prison \u200csentence \u2064of Chelsea Manning, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/vivek-ramaswamy-pledges-to-pardon-julian-assange-anti-american-publisher-of-us-secrets\/\" title=\"Vivek Ramaswamy vows to forgive Julian Assange, US secrets' publisher.\">fashionably transgender government employee<\/a> who <strong>leaked<\/strong> to Assange, while\u200d Assange himself still sits in a foreign prison in exile.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The U.S. government in 2019 indicted Assange, \u200ban Australian \u200bcitizen, on 18 federal espionage charges. Assange, the founder of \u200cWikiLeaks, published hundreds of thousands of American classified files that he had received from Manning, then an intelligence analyst. The government has long <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/uk-51616077\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">argued<\/a> that Assange and Manning&#8217;s actions put \u2064lives at \u200crisk.<\/p>\n<p>Assange, who holed up\u200c for seven\u2064 years in the Ecuadorian embassy in \u2063London\u2062 to escape Swedish sexual\u2062 assault\u200c charges, is now in a\u200c U.K. prison on\u200c <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/derek-chauvin-jury-reaches-verdict-after-short-deliberation\/\" title=\"Derek Chauvin Jury Reaches Verdict After Short Deliberation\">separate charges<\/a> as British courts litigate whether to\u200b extradite him\u200d to the United States.<\/p>\n<p>The WikiLeaks founder has publicly <a href=\"https:\/\/www.smh.com.au\/entertainment\/books\/book-review-the-wikileaks-files-the-world-according-to-us-empire-20150908-gjhp1v.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">attacked<\/a> &#8220;U.S. empire&#8221; and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.eu\/article\/julian-assange-is-still-a-creep-wikileaks-conservative-america\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">echoed<\/a> left-wing radical \u2063Noam Chomsky, one\u200c of Assange&#8217;s strongest <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ctvnews.ca\/world\/wikileaks-assange-won-t-get-u-s-extradition-ruling-this-year-1.5128583\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">supporters<\/a> and a longtime hater of America and Israel.<\/p>\n<p>Ramaswamy, meanwhile, has embraced\u200c <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/elections\/a-guide-to-vivek-ramaswamys-shifting-stances-on-aid-to-israel\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">a dizzying array<\/a> of different positions on \u200dIsrael. He said in June that he was open to cutting off all\u2062 U.S.\u200c aid to Israel, then\u200d backtracked on\u200c that position. He said in a mid-August\u2062 interview that \u2062he \u2063will wean Israel off U.S. aid before <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/national-security\/ramaswamy-cut-off-aid-to-israel-after-2028\/\">telling<\/a> the <em>Washington Free \u2063Beacon<\/em> that he will \u2064continue the aid if his \u200cMiddle\u200b East plan is unsuccessful.<\/p>\n<p>The candidate this week changed his position once more, <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/elections\/in-latest-reversal-vivek-ramaswamy-says-he-wont-cut-israel-aid-without-jerusalems-approval\/\">saying<\/a> he will\u2063 only cut the \u2064aid\u2063 if Israel signs off.<\/p>\n<p>Ramaswamy&#8217;s campaign told the <em>Free Beacon<\/em> that his position on Israel has been \u200cconsistent.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Republican presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy plans to pardon Julian Assange if elected. Ramaswamy criticized President Obama for commuting Chelsea Manning&#8217;s sentence, calling it shameful. Ramaswamy tweeted, &#8220;I will pardon Julian Assange on Jan 20, 2025.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":162,"featured_media":2018313,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[544],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2018312","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-free-beacon"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2018312","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/162"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2018312"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2018312\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2018313"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2018312"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2018312"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2018312"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}