The arrest of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange could unearth new information that may reveal Ukraine was the driving force behind the alleged collusion conspiracy involving US President Donald Trump and Russia, Trump's attorney Rudy Giuliani said on Friday
WASHINGTON (Pakistan Point News / Sputnik - 12th April, 2019) The arrest of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange could unearth new information that may reveal Ukraine was the driving force behind the alleged collusion conspiracy involving US President Donald Trump and Russia, Trump's attorney Rudy Giuliani said on Friday.Giuliani told the Washington Examiner that Assange might be able to shed light on the plot that led to an investigation based on a false charge on conspiracy, and called on the public to keep an eye on Ukraine.
The comments refer only to Assange possibly exposing the origins of the Federal investigation into the alleged Trump-Russia collusion, Giuliani said.
Giuliani also said he does not suggest Assange could disprove that Russia hacked the Democratic National Committee and Hilary Clinton's campaign Chairman John Podesta.
On Thursday, Assange was arrested at the Ecuadorian embassy in London on a US authorities' request. Assange now faces extradition to the United States on charges of computer hacking and could receive a sentence of up to five years in jail.
The United States accuses Assange of conspiring with former US Army soldier Chelsea Manning and helping her break into a classified US government computer as well as leaking data related to the United States' activities in Afghanistan and Iraq, the Guantanamo Bay detention center and US diplomatic cables.
In 2016, WikiLeaks published compromising emails of the Democratic National Committee, the formal governing body for the Democratic Party, ahead of the 2016 US presidential election, in which Clinton was running as a Democratic candidate.
On Wednesday, Trump said that Special Counsel Robert Mueller's investigation into alleged Russian interference during the 2016 US presidential election was an "attempted coup" and should be probed by US Attorney General William Barr.
Mueller recently concluded his 22-month investigation into allegations of Trump-Russia collusion in the 2016 US presidential election. Barr said in a letter to Congress that Mueller concluded in his report President Donald Trump's campaign did not collude with Russia during the election.
Mueller, however, maintained that Russia did try to interfere in the election, an assertion Moscow has repeatedly denied.
Russian officials have said the allegations were made up to excuse the election loss of Trump's opponent as well as deflect public attention from actual instances of election fraud and corruption.
