After she did that, they formally closed off using minister’s prerogative (in the way she used it) as an option in future trials.
The rest of what you said is spot on.
My interior bookie had it at 60% going to the US, and that’s dropped to about 30% now. If they decide to punt him to Sweden I don’t see a serious percentage chance of a path to the US.
I posed this in the other thread, but maybe someone has an answer for me here:
Could this be a way to spike the extradition request? By making it a more impossible ask? I’m still not sure what’s in it for Trump to bring Assange in for testimony that could be about him, and negative.
It feels like “bringing Assange to justice for espionage” was more a repeated policy goal of Hillary Clinton, and the non-Trumpie State Department. I don’t know who really wants him. Maybe Trump will tweet that he hates Assange as much as Tillerson, and I’ll be more clear where he stands.
