The U.S. is asking a British appeals court to reverse the judgement of a lower court that Russian asset and accused sexual predator Julian Assange should not be extradited to the U.S. to face charges for leaking classified information via WikiLeaks in 2010 and 2011. Assange's lawyers say he's a risk of suicide if extradited to the U.S. to stand trial.
Assange's WikiLeaks also figured prominently in the 2016 Presidential election, when they published roughly 30,000 e-mails and documents from Hillary Clinton and the Democratic National Committee with the intent of sabotaging her campaign and tilting the election to demagogue Donald "Loser" Trump. The hacked emails and documents were later traced to Russian military intelligence. According to the Mueller Report, Assange was also involved in the vicious smear of Seth Rich, whose murder was the subject of a vile conspiracy attack aimed at Clinton.
The U.S. needs to get this international fugitive back in the U.S. for trial. He's already shown a willingness to flee to his benefactors in Russia, and his years-long asylum in the Ecuadorian embassy in London shows he'll use any means to escape justice. Now, it's up to the British appeals court to allow his extradition.
(photo: A bearded Assange removed kicking and screaming from Ecuadorian embassy in 2019)
