American Independence Needs Independent Media
Same government that's right now in power (as was the government and leadership plotting this assassination and torture a decade ago):
"According to Yahoo, anonymous US officials told the news site that four years ago, discussions took place “at the highest levels” of the Trump administration on how to potentially kidnap or even assassinate Mr Assange."
The current US administration has a fetish or urge to kill journalists. The utterances from the Cheeto King leave no room for doubt about it; he thinks political violence is a joke, including physical retaliation against reporters that he does not fancy. Narcissism at its best? Or worst? Hail Caesar?
According to witness statements from the Julian Assange case, at one point Cheeto King was blackmailing Assange (inside the embassy) via Dana Tyrone Rohrabacher, his obedient lapdog from the western coast. Quoting Wikipedia: "On 16 August 2017, Rohrabacher visited Julian Assange in the Ecuadorian Embassy in London and told him that Trump would pardon him on the condition that he would agree to say that Russia was not involved in the 2016 Democratic National Committee email leaks. At his extradition hearings in 2020, Assange's defense team alleged in court that this offer was made "on instructions from the president". Trump and Rohrabacher subsequently said they had never spoken about the offer, and Rohrabacher said he had made the offer on his own initiative. [...] In February 2020, Rohrabacher told Yahoo News that his goal during his 2017 meeting with Julian Assange was to find evidence for a widely debunked conspiracy theory that WikiLeaks' real source was not Russian intelligence agents for the DNC emails but former DNC staffer Seth Rich. Stephanie Grisham, a White House spokesperson for President Trump, stated that Trump barely knew Rohrabacher and had not spoken with Rohrabacher "'on this subject or almost any subject'". On February 19, 2020, Edward Fitzgerald, Julian Assange's attorney, asserted at Westminster Magistrates' Court in London that Rohrabacher had been sent on behalf of President Trump in August 2017 to offer Assange a pardon from Trump if Assange could release material to show that Russian intelligence was not involved in the 2016 United States election interference."
This is not a secret. Not anymore. Both Assange and his legal team repeatedly brought this up.
For the record, it was Joe Biden - not Cheeto - who set Assange free. In fact, the wheels were not moving until Assange took the same American lawyer who now works for Maduro and until Biden gave a damn. Up until then his Counsel Jen was making little to no progress, contrary to what the press tells.
Why was Assange put in this situation in the first place (with a sealed US indictment against him until he was finally kidnapped inside the embassy during the Cheeto term)? Because Assange published extensive evidence of war crimes committed by the US, mostly owing to leaks from an American whistleblower called Chelsea Manning. Those leaks mostly admonished George Bush II.
The stained legacy of the American war on the media extends well beyond the US. Apparently even an Australian visiting the UK isn't "outside the reach" of Uncle Sam with his filthy, algae-filled swamp.
Not much has changed since then. Except for the worse. DT (Demented Titus) has attacked the media not just by defunding VoA, NPR, PBS, RFA etc. He has attacked so many publishers and broadcasters in the US, then "settled" with them (grabbed them by the balls, defanged them, replaced leadership). Even comedians aren't safe; he uses the FCC as an attack dog instead of regulator and jokes about killing journalists since a decade ago.
The American regime's hostility towards media is an international problem. █