Politician requests Trump pardon for 'Australian hero' Julian Assange

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Politician requests Trump pardon for 'Australian hero' Julian Assange
Wikileaks founder Julian Assange squints in the sunlight, like a mole heading above ground. Credit: Getty Images

The trend of immediately asking your mates for favours when they get a promotion transcends all cultural barriers, evidently.

Conservative Australian senator Pauline Hanson took to social media shortly after Donald Trump's U.S. election victory, to lavish him with praise as well as ask him a cheeky favour.

Her request? Grant a full Presidential pardon to Ecuadorian embassy basement-dweller and Wikileaks founder, Julian Assange.


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The anti-immigration One Nation party leader has already been grilled on national television over whether or not she has a boner for Trump, which she awkwardly denied amidst giggles.

Now, the Australian anti-muslim politician wants the American anti-muslim politician (who definitely has no idea who she is), to help free her beloved "Australian hero" Assange.

Pauline "hate carrot" Hanson's thirst for the president-elect who already noticed when she tweeted him her congratulations, with very little chill.

Perhaps no one told her about the sexual assault allegations levelled against the Wikileaks founder in Sweden? Doubt it.

She seemed pretty forgiving after Trump was accused of sexual misconduct, after all.

Wonder what Assange thinks of all this. If only the embassy would let him use the internet again.

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