Given the state he's being kept in in the UK I have less faith this was actually done for humanitarian reasons than it was the UK govt. stalling for more time to extract any insurance intel he hasn't publicly released through wikileaks.
Even if Trump give Assange a blanket pardon (I'm not holding my breath) that still doesn't have any affect on what the UK government does to him. Trump can pardon him and scream at the UK all he wants to let Assange go, and the UK can just be like, "lolk" and keep him imprisoned for their own purposes.
Given the state he's being kept in in the UK I have less faith this was actually done for humanitarian reasons than it was the UK govt. stalling for more time to extract any insurance intel he hasn't publicly released through wikileaks.
My first guess would be to prevent a pardon from Trump. Can he pardon Assange before being brought to the US?
Even if Trump give Assange a blanket pardon (I'm not holding my breath) that still doesn't have any affect on what the UK government does to him. Trump can pardon him and scream at the UK all he wants to let Assange go, and the UK can just be like, "lolk" and keep him imprisoned for their own purposes.
Unironically some Oxford or Cambridge educated human rights lawyer will fight to reverse this judge's decision.
The current state of Britain...
So it's prison limbo then.
not on a basis of merit but on a basis that he would get suicided in the U.S., pretty weak