If the Swedish prosecutor had dropped charges before the US got around to charging him, Julian would have walked free. So it's awfully convenient that the charges were "substituted", so to speak, on the same day.
Hm, I just looked up the timeline, and I don't see any conincidence. It's like:
6 March 2018, a U.S. grand jury charges Assange, but it is secret.
11 April 2019, Ecuador expels him from the embassy, the UK arrests him for skipping bail.
11 April 2019, the U.S. unseals the charges and asks for him to be extradited.
13 May 2019, Sweden re-opens the rape investigation because he is now potentially available to be extradicted again.
19 November 2019, Sweden closes the investigation because the evidence is too old.
There is no "same day" coincidence at all, and Assange was never free to walk because he would always face criminal prosecution in Britain for skipping bail.
