Assange is expected to plead guilty to an Espionage Act charge of conspiring to unlawfully obtain and disseminate classified national defense information, according to the U.S. Justice Department in a letter filed in court.
Julian Assange boards flight at London Stansted Airport at 5PM (BST) Monday June 24th. This is for everyone who worked for his freedom: thank you.#FreedJulianAssange pic.twitter.com/Pqp5pBAhSQ
— WikiLeaks (@wikileaks) June 25, 2024
Imagine. From over 5 years in a small cell in a maximum security prison. Nearly 14 years detained in the UK.
— WikiLeaks (@wikileaks) June 25, 2024
To this.
For the "privilege" Julian Assange must pay over half a million US dollars. Please help if you can: https://t.co/bBkYB5mycE #AssangeJet pic.twitter.com/Qau948K94v
Now, his plane is headed for U.S. territory after spending 5 years in a high-security London prison. Assange will arrive in Saipan to enter a plea deal with the U.S. government.
According to The Associated Press, the chartered flight from London that Assange’s wife, Stella, confirmed was carrying her husband, left Don Mueang International Airport.
The official WikiLeaks account on X also stated that Assange was heading toward Saipan, the capital of the Northern Mariana Islands, a U.S. commonwealth in the Pacific, where he’s scheduled to appear in court on Wednesday.
Assange is expected to return to his home country of Australia after his plea and sentencing. The hearing is taking place in Saipan because of Assange’s opposition to traveling to the continental U.S. and the court’s proximity to Australia, prosecutors said.
British judicial officials confirmed that Assange left the U.K. on Monday evening after being granted bail at a secret hearing last week.
Following news of Assange's release, free thinkers took to X to share their favorite videos of the WikiLeaks founder.
WORTH REMEMBERING — "Every war in the past 50 years has been a result of media lies. Populations have to be fooled into wars." (Assange Campaign)https://t.co/7P9SJ9d5Jl pic.twitter.com/9tfHjxq5ZT
— Toria Brooke (@realtoriabrooke) June 25, 2024
One video, shared by anonymous user Wall Street Apes, detailed how Assange exposed how Hillary Clinton was taking Saudi Arabia donations and approving the arms sales supplied to ISIS.
Now That Julian Assange Will Be Freed After Striking A Plea Deal, Bill Clinton & Hillary Clinton Have A Lot To Worry About
— Wall Street Apes (@WallStreetApes) June 25, 2024
🚨 Julian Assange Exposed Hillary Clinton Was Taking Saudi Arabia Donations & Approving The Arms Sales Supplied To ISIS
Julian Assange: “There's an early… pic.twitter.com/YjTyEXmYke
"There's an early 2014 email from Hillary Clinton, so not so long after she left Secretary of State, to her campaign manager, John Podesta. That email, it states that ISIL, ISIS, is funded by Saudi Arabia and Qatar."
Assange continued, "The governments of Saudi Arabia and Qatar. Now this is a, I actually, I think this is the most significant email in the whole collection. And perhaps because Saudi and Qatari money is spread all over the place, including into many media institutions..."
"Under Hillary Clinton and Clinton emails reveal a significant discussion about it, the largest ever arms deal in the world was made with Saudi Arabia, more than $80 billion. In fact, during her tenure as Secretary of State, total arms are exports from the United States in terms of the dollar value doubled?"
"Doubled. And of course the consequence of that is that this notorious terrorist jihadist group called ISIL or ISIS is created largely with money from the very people who are giving money to the Clinton Foundation."
REPORT — "Plane fags" are tracking Julian Assange’s route.
— Toria Brooke (@realtoriabrooke) June 25, 2024
His Bombardier Global 6000 business jet has departed Thailand and is headed for Saipan, an island in the Northern Mariana Islands. pic.twitter.com/8kMnCc0zbv
Unsurprisingly, former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has not made any public comments about Assange's release.
.@mikepompeo is awfully quiet
— Toria Brooke (@realtoriabrooke) June 25, 2024
Pompeo has been accused of instructing CIA hits on Assange to have him assassinated in prison, among other things.
AUGUST 15, 2022 — A group of journalists and lawyers sued the CIA and its former director Mike Pompeo over allegations the intelligence agency spied on them when they visited WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange during his stay in Ecuador's embassy in London.https://t.co/kwNtoLYqXo
— Toria Brooke (@realtoriabrooke) June 25, 2024
On August 15, 2022, Reuters published an article that read, "A group of journalists and lawyers sued the CIA and its former director Mike Pompeo over allegations the intelligence agency spied on them when they visited WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange during his stay in Ecuador's embassy in London.
The lawsuit said that CIA under Pompeo violated the privacy rights of those American journalists and lawyers by allegedly spying on them. The plaintiffs include journalists Charles Glass and John Goetz and attorneys Margaret Kunstler and Deborah Hrbek, who have represented Assange."
A few months later on November 2, 2022, a video went viral of the former U.S. secretary of state and ex-CIA head being formally served with the lawsuit.
Many have pointed out that Assange's new plea deal comes within weeks of former President Trump stating that he would pardon the WikiLeaks founder when elected to his next term.
The world will be waiting for developments during Assange's day in the Saipan court on Wednesday, June 26.