{"id":2021876,"date":"2023-09-05T05:10:02","date_gmt":"2023-09-05T09:10:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/vivek-ramaswamy-seeks-meeting-with-julian-assange\/"},"modified":"2023-09-05T05:11:37","modified_gmt":"2023-09-05T09:11:37","slug":"vivek-ramaswamy-seeks-meeting-with-julian-assange","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/vivek-ramaswamy-seeks-meeting-with-julian-assange\/","title":{"rendered":"Vivek Ramaswamy wants to meet Julian Assange."},"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\">14<\/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-seeks-meeting-with-julian-assange%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=2021876&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<blockquote>\n<h2>The presidential \u200bcandidate has vowed to pardon the \u2064Wikileaks founder if elected<\/h2>\n<\/blockquote>\n<figure><figcaption>Vivek Ramaswamy \/ Getty \u2064Images<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<h3>Vivek \u2062Ramaswamy seeks meeting with Julian Assange<\/h3>\n<p>Vivek Ramaswamy is seeking a meeting \u200cwith Wikileaks founder Julian\u200b Assange, \u2062he told the <em>Washington Free Beacon<\/em>, which could make him the \u2062first \u2064U.S. presidential candidate to meet with the controversial publisher in prison.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I\u2019d like to \u200dmeet \u200bhim.\u2064 No success in getting \u2063in touch yet,&#8221; Ramaswamy\u2064 told the <em>Free Beacon<\/em> on Friday,\u200d adding that he has asked former representative Ron\u2063 Paul for help brokering the \u2063sit-down during Ramaswamy&#8217;s planned visit to London later \u200bthis month.<\/p>\n<p>Ramaswamy\u2063 has vowed to pardon the Wikileaks founder <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/latest-news\/ramaswamy-assange-pardon\/\">on his first day in office<\/a>, calling it &#8220;downright\u200d shameful&#8221; that Assange &#8220;still\u200c sits in a foreign prison in exile.&#8221;\u200b He has also said he would pardon Edward Snowden, the former National Security\u200d Agency \u2063contractor who exposed thousands of\u200d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/breaking-feds-removed-11-sets-of-classified-documents-including-some-top-secret-from-mar-a-lago\/\" title=\"BREAKING: Feds Removed 11 Sets Of Classified Documents, Including Some \u2018Top Secret,\u2019 From Mar-A-Lago\">top secret documents<\/a> on American \u2064surveillance programs and sought refuge in\u2064 Russia.<\/p>\n<p>Assange exposed hundreds of thousands of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/senior-us-official-visits-china-on-anniversary-of-tiananmen-square-massacre\/\" title=\"US senior official visits China on Tiananmen Square Massacre anniversary.\">classified documents provided<\/a> by\u200d the U.S. Army intelligence analyst Chelsea Manning. During an appearance on Paul&#8217;s\u200b podcast in June, Ramaswamy said he\u200d was\u200d &#8220;trying \u2064to visit Julian Assange&#8221; and asked \u200dfor &#8220;some of [Paul&#8217;s] listeners&#8217; help&#8221; in getting in touch with him in prison.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I have a planned\u2064 trip to the \u2064U.K. that I committed to speak at\u2063 sometime in September,&#8221; said Ramaswamy. &#8220;I want\u200b to see him during that visit, face-to-face, have\u2063 that conversation.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;If there\u2019s anybody in your network. They\u2019re \u2063making it \u2062really hard to \u200bsee \u2064him. But that\u2019s something that I\u2019m keen to do,&#8221; he added.<\/p>\n<p>Paul&#8217;s \u2064cohost told Ramaswamy that they could &#8220;help you with that.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I would \u200dhope\u200d so, I would take it gladly,&#8221; said Ramaswamy. &#8220;I intend \u200cto pardon him.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Assange is awaiting extradition to the \u2064United States\u200b from His Majesty\u2019s Prison Belmarsh in London. The U.S. government\u200c charged the Australian\u2062 national in 2019 with hacking crimes and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/vivek-ramaswamy-seeks-meeting-with-julian-assange\/\" title=\"Vivek Ramaswamy wants to meet Julian Assange.\">espionage act\u2062 violations stemming<\/a> from his publication of the classified documents he\u2063 received from Manning.<\/p>\n<p>Ramaswamy has \u200bskyrocketed to third\u200b place in the Republican presidential primary \u2064by campaigning as a \u2064millennial \u200bcandidate with fresh ideas. But some of those \u200cideas\u2014like his support for <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/elections\/in-latest-reversal-vivek-ramaswamy-says-he-wont-cut-israel-aid-without-jerusalems-approval\/\">cutting \u2063aid to Israel<\/a>\u2014have made him\u2063 an outlier \u200bin the\u2062 Republican field.<\/p>\n<p>His support for Assange is also outside the mainstream. Other candidates have criticized Assange, including former vice president Mike\u2064 Pence, who called \u200cthe\u200b Wikileaks publisher\u2019s actions\u2064 one\u2064 of the biggest\u2064 &#8220;compromises of classified information in American history.&#8221; Former president Donald\u200c Trump also declined to pardon Assange during his time in the White House.<\/p>\n<p>Ramaswamy has \u2063been trying to \u2063arrange a \u200dmeeting with Assange for months,\u200c but has had difficulty \u200dgetting\u2063 in contact \u2062with\u200b him. An\u200b attorney for Assange did not respond to a request for\u200d comment.<\/p>\n<p>Democrats have criticized Assange \u2062as well. After Wikileaks published\u2063 leaked emails in 2016 from\u2063 the Democratic National Committee \u200dand Hillary\u200b Clinton&#8217;s former campaign \u200daide John Podesta. But two Democratic candidates,\u200c Robert F. Kennedy \u200bJr. \u2064and Marianne Wiilliamson, have said they&#8217;re also on board with pardoning the Wikileaks founder.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>the Wikileaks founder in prison,&#8221; said Vivek Ramaswamy, a presidential candidate. If elected, he promises to pardon Julian Assange. Seeking to become the first candidate to meet with the controversial publisher behind bars, Ramaswamy expressed his desire to engage with Assange, according to the Washington Free Beacon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":120,"featured_media":2021877,"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-2021876","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\/2021876","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\/120"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2021876"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2021876\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2021877"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2021876"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2021876"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2021876"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}