“Julian Assange claims former US president Barrack Obama only pardoned whistleblower Chelsea Manning to make life hard for him.
“In a heated exchange with host Waleed Aly on The Project last night, the WikiLeaks founder said would be “a complete idiot” to hand himself over the US despite previously proposing exchanging himself for the clemency of Chelsea Manning.
“”Let’s look at it from their (US) perspective. If we give Chelsea Manning clemency, what’s the result?” Assange said, clarifying his offer to be extradited to the US.
“”It’s going to make life hard for Assange because either he’s going to get extradited to the United States or we’re going to show he’s a liar and both of things are going to make life hard for Assange and therefore it’s OK to pardon Chelsea Manning and that’s what happened.””
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