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Assange lawyer says Trump offered deal to avoid extradition
Read full article: Assange lawyer says Trump offered deal to avoid extraditionSupporters of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange take part in a protest outside the Central Criminal Court, the Old Bailey, in London, Monday, Sept. 14, 2020. The London court hearing on Assange's extradition from Britain to the United States resumed Monday after a COVID-19 test on one of the participating lawyers came back negative, WikiLeaks said Friday. (AP Photo/Matt Dunham)LONDON โ A lawyer for WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has told a London court that her client was indirectly offered a โwin-winโ deal by President Donald Trump that would see him avoid extradition to the U.S. if he revealed the source of a leak of documents from the Democratic Party before the 2016 election. James Lewis, a lawyer acting on behalf of the U.S. government, said it wasn't contesting that โthese thingsโ were said. Assange has been in a British prison since his ejection from the Ecuadorian Embassy in London in April 2019.