“@POTUS please #pardonjulianassange,” she tweeted, tagging Trump’s official presidential handle.
In one, Anderson wears a skimpy, light-colored bikini outside while holding a sign overhead saying, “BRING JULIAN ASSANGE HOME AUSTRALIA,” referring to Assange’s birth nation.
The other shows her in a smart, satin-looking dress holding a sign saying, “I am Julian Assange #FreeAssange” — with many joking that the images would finally succeed in getting Trump’s attention.
Anderson has long defended Assange, visiting him when he was holed up in the Ecuadorian embassy in London before he was kicked out and arrested in April last year, and later also visiting him in prison.
She was also rumored to have dated him, fueling that with romantic-sounding paeans about how much she missed him.
“We are friendly, yes — very friendly. I love Julian,” she once told British TV, later telling interviewer Piers Morgan that “it’s kind of difficult to have a relationship with somebody” who is a “prisoner.”