 In 2020, a lawyer for Assange said the Trump-Pence administration offered Assange a pardon if he agreed to say Russia was not involved in leaking Democrat National Committee emails during the 2016 presidential campaign. President Trump denied that claim. But what's interesting here is, again, they told him, you know, you need to erase all the things that you've given us or all the things you've reported. That way there's no record of them.