Appearing last night on Fox News’ Tucker Carlson show, Julian Assange’s fiancee, Stella Moris, appealed to President Donald Trump to pardon the WikiLeaks founder, to prevent him from “falling into the hands of the Deep State.” She urged Trump to take action on this before he leaves the White House—on the assumption that he does.
Assange is being held at the maximum security Belmarsh prison in London, where he is being slowly murdered under brutal conditions. On Jan. 4, a judge will rule on whether he should be extradited to the U.S. to stand trial for leaking classified military cables related to the Iraq and Afghan wars. Should he be extradited, Moris warned, Assange “will be in the hands of the Deep State.” He would be tried in Alexandria, Virginia—home to the infamous “Rocket Docket” in which Lyndon LaRouche and several associates were railroaded in 1988—and would never receive a fair trial. Most of the jury pool there, she pointed out, are made up of people who live in Virginia and work for the federal government, “or for security contractors and the Deep State.” Those who are pushing for Assange’s extradition and subsequent U.S. trial, Moris added, “want to end the First Amendment, because they see the First Amendment as a threat to their malfeasance, their abuse being exposed.”
Moris asked Carlson, “does the President want that to be his legacy or does he want to ensure that the First Amendment survives his [Assange’s] trial—survives by pardoning him and not have his trial?” Carlson made a point of referring to Assange as “effectively a journalist,” rather than someone who had committed an egregious crime, and told Moris that “for what it’s worth, I think the President probably does want to pardon him,” but, “I think there are a lot of sinister people who don’t want the pardon to happen.”
