“Donald Trump wants Julian Assange’s head on a pike” his extradition hearing heard yesterday. The American president had already stated that he considered journalists “sick, dishonest, deranged and fundamentally corrupt”. The decision to ‘ramp up the charges’ against Assange was made to try and make him an example, said, Edward Fitzgerald QC speaking on behalf of the Wikileaks founder.
Source: Attending the Assange trial – day one – National Union of Journalists