Is Trump Pardoning Julian Assange? Pastor Mark Burns' Tweet Sends Rumors Flying

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

Donald Trump still has time to pardon Julian Assange, but a rumor swirling around on social media that he had plans to pardon the founder of Wikileaks turned out to be based on faulty information.

It's customary for outgoing presidents to issue pardons and with President Donald Trump heading into the final weeks of his presidency, there's been a push by some for the president to pardon Assange. On Monday, Pastor Mark Burns, an early supporter of Trump, posted on Twitter that the president was going to pardon Assange.

However, it turned out not to be true, according to Burns, who posted a subsequent tweet about an hour and a half later asking people to "disregard" his comment about Assange's pardon. Burns said he had a "faulty source."

The White House hasn't issued an on the record statement regarding Burns' tweet but the initial comment garnered more than 88,000 likes and 27,000 retweets. Some used it as an opportunity to support the possibility of a pardon, others said it played into a pattern of Trump disrespecting the rule of law and one person hoped it was a sign her family would be reunited.

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I hope not.

[Cha]

1. If he does then ASSange with have that

SMEAR on him, too.

[lanlady]

2. Assange isn't American

Can he even be pardoned ?

[TheBlackAdder]

5. Yes. I asked this the other day, and foreign nationals can be pardoned.

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I think Trump will pardon Assange, Snowden and a fuck ton of Russians and people from Deutsche Bank, etc.

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[czarjak]

3. Pastor's sources are infallible though? Thanks for the unsolicited confirmation, religion is B-U-N-K

[AlexSFCA]

4. it wouldn't matter. The US has extradition treaty with Sweden