{"id":26186,"date":"2020-12-14T12:41:34","date_gmt":"2020-12-14T17:41:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=26186"},"modified":"2020-12-14T13:25:50","modified_gmt":"2020-12-14T18:25:50","slug":"rumors-flying-that-president-donald-trump-will-pardon-julian-assange-snowden-weighs-in","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/rumors-flying-that-president-donald-trump-will-pardon-julian-assange-snowden-weighs-in\/","title":{"rendered":"Rumors Flying That President Donald Trump Will Pardon Julian Assange, Snowden Weighs In"},"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\">26<\/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%2Frumors-flying-that-president-donald-trump-will-pardon-julian-assange-snowden-weighs-in%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=26186&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--><h3><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-26251\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/Julian-Assange-600x400-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/Julian-Assange-600x400-1.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/Julian-Assange-600x400-1-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/Julian-Assange-600x400-1-480x320.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/h3>\n<h3>Rumors are flying across social media that President Donald Trump will be pardoning WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange.<\/h3>\n<p>The rumors appear to have been started by Pastor Mark Burns, who tweeted it as breaking news.<\/p>\n<p>The tweet gained over 46,000 \u201clikes\u201d in less than an hour, a testament to the wide support for a pardon.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">BREAKING: President Trump will pardon Julian Assange.<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Pastor Mark Burns (@pastormarkburns) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/pastormarkburns\/status\/1338518866683686915?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 14, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>However, Gateway Pundit spoke to people involved with WikiLeaks who had not heard any news on that front. Additionally, sources close to the administration have said that while there has been talk of it, they have not heard of anything being confirmed.<\/p>\n<p>National Security Agency whistleblower Edward Snowden weighed in on the news saying that \u201cI very much hope this is true. The case against Assange is based on a legal theory that would criminalize the work of every journalist, both at home and abroad.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">BREAKING: President Trump will pardon Julian Assange.<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Pastor Mark Burns (@pastormarkburns) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/pastormarkburns\/status\/1338518866683686915?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 14, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Even if the story turns out to have been fake, perhaps President Trump will see how happy the news made his base, and even a large portion of the left, and make it happen.<\/p>\n<p>The post <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thegatewaypundit.com\/2020\/12\/rumors-flying-president-donald-trump-will-pardon-julian-assange-snowden-weighs\/\" rel=\"nofollow\">Rumors Flying That President Donald Trump Will Pardon Julian Assange, Snowden Weighs In<\/a> appeared first on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thegatewaypundit.com\" rel=\"nofollow\">The Gateway Pundit<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rumors are flying across social media that President Donald Trump will be pardoning WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange. The rumors appear to have been started by Pastor Mark Burns, who &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2180534,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"http:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/Julian-Assange-600x400-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"Rumors Flying That President Donald Trump Will Pardon Julian Assange, Snowden Weighs In","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26186","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"fifu_image_url":"http:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/Julian-Assange-600x400-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"Rumors Flying That President Donald Trump Will Pardon Julian Assange, Snowden Weighs In","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26186","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26186"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26186\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2180534"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26186"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26186"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26186"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}