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🚨🚨🚨🚨Donald Trumps former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has been ordered to appear in a Spanish court to explain a possible U.S. government plot to kidnap and assassinate WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange
thedailybeast.com
Spanish Court Demands Pompeo Testify on Apparent Plot to Kill Assange
The judge of the National High Court issued a summons for Trumps former secretary of state, according to Spanish media.
9:47 AM · Jun 3, 2022
Melody speaks gif fluently🇺🇸🌻🇺🇦
@UnpaintedMelody
🚨🚨🚨🚨Donald Trumps former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has been ordered to appear in a Spanish court to explain a possible U.S. government plot to kidnap and assassinate WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange
thedailybeast.com
Spanish Court Demands Pompeo Testify on Apparent Plot to Kill Assange
The judge of the National High Court issued a summons for Trumps former secretary of state, according to Spanish media.
9:47 AM · Jun 3, 2022
https://www.thedailybeast.com/spanish-court-demands-mike-pompeo-testify-on-apparent-plot-to-kidnap-or-kill-wikileaks-founder-julian-assange?via=twitter_page
Donald Trumps former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has been ordered to appear in a Spanish court to explain a possible U.S. government plot to kidnap and assassinate WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, ABC Spain reports, citing legal sources close to the case. Yahoo News broke the news of the alleged 2017 plot last September, reporting that Trumps then-CIA Director Pompeo wanted revenge after WikiLeaks published a massive trove of sensitive CIA hacking tools. They were seeing blood, an ex- Trump national security official told Yahoo. Separately, Spains National Court has been probing a Spanish security firm that may have spied on Assange for the CIA while providing security for the Ecuadorean Embassy in London. National High Court Judge Santiago Pedraz agreed to summon Pompeo and former U.S. counterintelligence official William Evanina as witnesses to explain whether a plot was drawn up. They must appear in June and can testify via videoconference. Pompeo has not yet commented on the ruling.
Original story in Spanish
https://www.abc.es/espana/abci-audiencia-nacional-cita-exsecretario-estado-eeuu-202206030238_noticia.html
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Spanish Court Demands Pompeo Testify on Apparent Plot to Kill Assange (Original Post)
Nevilledog
Jun 2022
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Lovie777
(12,278 posts)1. Say what? . ..
This Firday is jumping full of GQP "good" news.
Sneederbunk
(14,291 posts)2. Will not testify. Too busy being involved in plot to kill democracy.
UTUSN
(70,711 posts)3. So vacay off limits?!1
brooklynite
(94,598 posts)4. He won't go, and the US Government won't make him...
This isn't a criminal charge; Judges in Spain play more of an investigatory role than they do here. There isn't a basis for an extradition request.
Marcuse
(7,488 posts)6. Unlikely.