https://freebeacon.com/national-security/vivek-ramaswamy-seeks-m…
Vivek Ramaswamy is seeking a meeting with Wikileaks founder Julian Assange, he told the Washington Free Beacon, which could make him the first U.S. presidential candidate to meet with the controversial publisher in prison.
"I’d like to meet him. No success in getting in touch yet," Ramaswamy told the Free Beacon on Friday, adding that he has asked former representative Ron Paul for help brokering the sit-down during Ramaswamy's planned visit to London later this month.
Ramaswamy has vowed to pardon the Wikileaks founder on his first day in office, calling it "downright shameful" that Assange "still sits in a foreign prison in exile." He has also said he would pardon Edward Snowden, the former National Security Agency contractor who exposed thousands of top secret documents on American surveillance programs and sought refuge in Russia.
Assange exposed hundreds of thousands of classified documents provided by the U.S. Army intelligence analyst Chelsea Manning. During an appearance on Paul's podcast in June, Ramaswamy said he was "trying to visit Julian Assange" and asked for "some of [Paul's] listeners' help" in getting in touch with him in prison.
"I have a planned trip to the U.K. that I committed to speak at sometime in September," said Ramaswamy. "I want to see him during that visit, face-to-face, have that conversation."
@WearySausageLibertarian8mos8MO
To what end? Does he think this will make him popular? His talk of raising the voting age has already lost him the young voters - he doesn't stand a chance.
@UnhappyDovesSocialist8mos8MO
Vivek Ramaswamy is also trying to run for president.
He is losing by quite a large margin to a rapist felon.
An Assange bump sounds a brilliant campaign strategy...
@MellowInaugurationDemocrat8mos8MO
What a novel approach...talking to people who are allegedly "enemies of the state" ...
More please. For the sake of our nation
@NeedfulHumanR1ghtsDemocrat8mos8MO
Bringing a message from their Daddy Vladdy I’m guessing…