The ecuadorian government changed during this time. They hosted him for 7 years, which for 6 of those years there was a different president called Correa who granted Assange the asylum and supported him. After 6 years, a different president was elected called Lenin Moreno, who is pro-US and was willing to trade Assange in order to obtain loans for Ecuador and possibly some corruption along the way. Also, Assange did publish documents that Moreno is corrupt, with accounts with millions of dollars in off-shore Carribean banks.