Julian Assange says Trump administration offered a pardon if he denied Russian interference

[jpak]

https://www.pressherald.com/2020/02/19/julian-assange-says-trump-administration-offered-a-pardon-if-he-denied-russian-election-interference/

A lawyer for Julian Assange says now-former Republican congressman Dana Rohrabacher, who now lives in Maine, offered him a pardon on instructions from the president.

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Fitzgerald said a statement from another Assange lawyer, Jennifer Robinson, recounted “Mr. Rohrabacher going to see Mr. Assange and saying, on instructions from the president, he was offering a pardon or some other way out, if Mr. Assange … said Russia had nothing to do with the DNC leaks.”

Responding to the the lawyer’s claims, White House press secretary Stephanie Grisham said, “This is absolutely and completely false.”

U.S. President Donald Trump “barely knows Dana Rohrabacher other than he’s an ex-congressman. He’s never spoken to him on this subject or almost any subject,” Grisham said. “It is a complete fabrication and a total lie. This is probably another never-ending hoax and total lie from the DNC.”

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Dana Rohrabacher - treasonous GOP flatlander.

Not a Mainer.

Nope

[Nikki28]

1. bad as

Julian Assange is,I trust him over Trump. This proves Trump colluded with Russia to steal 2016 and this is the tip of the iceberg of what the madman has done.He has got to go.

[2naSalit]

2. Dana Rohrabacher

If he's in Maine, he's trying to hide from someone. Or he was.

[jpak]

3. He's not hiding very well

https://www.pressherald.com/2020/01/12/putins-favorite-congressman-moves-to-maine/

‘Putin's favorite congressman’ moves to Maine

[2naSalit]

4. well the article implies that

he's interested in legalizing marijuana in Maine so I wonder if he's in with Parnas and that enterprise he was working on.

Hmmm...

[jpak]

5. It's already legal here

We're just waiting on the State to get its act together on licencing retail.

On another note - what seaweed is called "sea grapes" ????

I took phycology (the study of seaweeds) at Orono back in the day - never heard that term before.

[2naSalit]

6. It's the stuff that

has those little ovate bulby things and some flatish leaves. If you step in them they pop. When fresh they are greenish-ochre but when they are dried on the beach they are dark brown to black and the bulbs are really hard and brittle. It sucks to walk on when it's dry in bare feet. Used to be all over the shore after the tide goes out and usually marks the high tide line on the beach. That stuff.

[jpak]

7. The genera Fucus and Ascophyllum - brown rock weeds

I know exactly what you are talking about.

In Japan, they have a seaweed called "sea grapes" (Caulerpa lentillifera) - it's a green algae (and highly prized).

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That's why I was confused.

[2naSalit]

8. This stuff...

Or what looks like it, grows all over the rocks on the coast up there.

[jpak]

9. Fucus vesiculosus

Know it well.

[2naSalit]

10. Up there it's ubiquitous.

But that's what the lobster fishermen would collect to send down to the jello plant in Portland in the off season.

[jpak]

11. I know you don't like jello - but to beat a dead horse :(

Jello is made from an animal protein called collagen.

The stuff that they use in ice cream, tooth paste and other food products is Carrageenan - made from the seaweed Irish Moss (Chrondrus crispis



Many Irish survived the Potatoe (sic) Famine on it

Therhttps://www.food.com/recipe/blancmange-195524e is a dish called Blanc Mange made with it

https://www.bing.com/th?id=OIP.jIyva6p7YBFuuMnivN-OxwHaE8&pid=Api&rs=1


Sorry to be too gross or preachy...



PS - Piss on Trump

[2naSalit]

12. Well...

I'll defer to your more informed expertise! For me, that was half a century ago! I always thought it was the other stuff. Not that I know much about seaweed in the first place. I lived around it for most of my childhood but that doesn't mean I knew much about it!

Thanks for enlightenment!