Nobody cares about Julian Assange. Assange is no longer useful as an asset through which to launder oppo research and whatever the Kremlin is pushing this week

Nobody cares about Julian Assange. Assange is no longer useful as an asset through which to launder oppo research and whatever the Kremlin is pushing this week so why bother with a pardon? The number of people whose vote this would change is vanishingly small, and the optics might even end up losing votes.