Julian Assange says Chelsea Manning was pardoned 'to make life difficult' for him

Julian Assange has claimed that Barack Obama only granted clemency to Chelsea Manning to "make life hard for him". One of Mr Obama's last acts as president was to commute Ms Manning's sentence, allowing her to be released in a matter of months rather than decades. The act was widely seen as a gesture of goodwill on the basis that Ms Manning was jailed for being a whistleblower.
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