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The president tried to distance his 2016 campaign from the GOP operative, who served a short stint as an adviser, by making false claims about the timeline regarding Stone's involvement.

The jury deliberated for just eight hours before convicting Stone last week on each count federal prosecutors had advanced.

Former Trump campaign aide Rick Gates told a court Tuesday that Trump did discuss WikiLeaks with Roger Stone in 2016.

If convicted, Stone could face a maximum sentence of 20 years in prison.

House Democrats argued in new court filings that redacted information from the Mueller report "may also be relevant to the House's investigation of the President's solicitation of Ukrainian interference in the 2020 election."

Owner of the Urban Taqueria in Albuquerque said the politcal names are meant to "keep the conversation going."

Assange was too ill to appear via video link for a hearing in U.K. court over extradition to the United States.

Assange faces a maximum of five years in prison if convicted of the conspiracy charge levied against him last month and a potential ten-year prison sentence for each of the charges today under the Espionage Act.

The WikiLeaks founder said he would not be extradited "for doing journalism that has won many, many awards and protected many people." 

"Everything they put out about Hillary Clinton was true," the president's personal lawyer said. "In other words, they didn't make things up.

"Ecuador has made these allegations to justify the unlawful and extraordinary act of letting police come inside an embassy," said WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange's lawyer.

"First and foremost, Washington is behind Assange's prosecution," Foreign Ministry spokesperson Maria Zakharova said.

"In just a few years he went from Bond villain to crowd-surfing hobbit. But the important part of the story isn't how he was arrested. It's why he was arrested," said TV host Trevor Noah.

Hannity—who once invited Assange to host his radio show—said the activist's case brings up "a fascinating legal issue about the freedom of the press in this country."

"I know nothing about Wikileaks. It's not my thing," Trump said in the Oval Office on Thursday. "I love WikiLeaks," the president said in 2016.

An indictment lodged against WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange alleges that he needed the help of intelligence analyst Chelsea Manning to breach the U.S. government's database.

"WikiLeaks, I love WikiLeaks," Donald Trump said during an October 2016 campaign rally.

"The hand of 'democracy' squeezes the throat of freedom," Russian Foreign Ministry spokesperson Maria Zakharova wrote on Facebook.

The U.K. said it would not extradite the WikiLeaks founder to the U.S. if he were to face the death penalty.

"Images of Ecuador's ambassador inviting the U.K.'s secret police into the embassy to drag a publisher of—like it or not—award-winning journalism out of the building are going to end up in the history books," Edward Snowden said.

The Metropolitan Police Service arrested Julian Assange at the Ecuadorian embassy in London on Thursday morning, following a U.S. extradition request.

British police entered the Ecuadorian Embassy and arrested WikkLeaks founder Julain Assange after Ecuador stripped him of his asylum status.

In 2012, WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange sought asylum in the Ecuadorian Embassy in London, and he has not stepped out of the building since.

Former federal prosecutors and legal experts told Newsweek that while he may not be explicitly violating the gag order with his latest Schiff Instagram post, the man described as a GOP "dirty trickster" is on the verge of crossing that line.

Cohen's prepared remarks are blunt about Trump and WikiLeaks.

Michael Cohen called the president a "con man," "racist" and a "cheat." Cohen also said the president was aware of Roger Stone's interactions with WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange. 

"Through legal trickery Deep State hitman Robert Mueller has guaranteed that my upcoming show trial is before Judge Amy Berman Jackson, an Obama appointed Judge," Stone wrote for the Instagram post's caption.

Despite Trump and his campaign team's repeated denials of having communicated with Russians, the report suggests Trump himself had at least six contacts before the Republican National Convention in July 2016.

Wikileaks says Mueller's indictment is proof there was no "back channel" between the organization and Trump associate Roger Stone.

Assange claimed the FBI is pressuring Ecuador to have him extradited to the United States.