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Trump: ‘A lot of people’ think Edward Snowden ‘not being treated fairly’

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Trump: ‘A lot of people’ think Edward Snowden ‘not being treated fairly’

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8/13/20
President Trump polled his aides on Thursday about whether he should let anti-surveillance whistleblower and leaker Edward Snowden return to the US from Russia without going to prison, saying he was open to it. “There are a lot of people that think that he is not being treated fairly. I mean, I hear that,” Trump told The Post in an exclusive interview in the Oval Office, before soliciting views from his staff. Trump’s comments reflect a remarkable softening in his views about the man he once deemed a “traitor” worthy of execution. Republican lawmakers and the Justice Department’s inspector general recently highlighted misuse of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act and the secret FISA court to surveil former Trump adviser Carter Page. “Snowden is one of the people they talk about. They talk about numerous people, but he is certainly one of the people that they do talk about,” Trump said on Thursday, before turning to his aides. “I guess the DOJ is looking to extradite him right now? … It’s certainly something I could look at. Many people are on his side, I will say that. I don’t know him, never met him. But many people are on his side.”

The president then asked his staff: “How do you feel about that, Snowden? Haven’t heard the name in a long time.” After polling the room, Trump added: “I’ve heard it both ways. From traitor to he’s being, you know, persecuted. I’ve heard it both ways.”
Snowden’s legal team has tried in vain to negotiate a prison-free return to the US for the former National Security Agency contractor, who exposed the fact that the FISA court was secretly approving the dragnet collection of domestic call records. Before taking office, Trump tweeted at least 45 times denouncing Snowden as a traitor and calling for his execution. In a 2013 tweet, Trump wrote: “Snowden is a spy who should be executed-but if it and he could reveal Obama’s records, I might become a major fan.”

Trump has commuted the prison sentence of a crony who lied to Congress to protect him, and he has pardoned US war criminals.

Trump has no appreciation for Rule of Law. Why wouldn't he also pardon an American cyber-traitor who fled to Russia?
 
I think what Edward Snowden did was right but what would be Trumps motivation for doing this be?

Saving Russia his board and lodging expenses?
 
I think what Edward Snowden did was right but what would be Trumps motivation for doing this be?

Saving Russia his board and lodging expenses?

The snarky answer would be that they might be living near each other soon in Russia, but I suspect the real answer is that trump is desperately looking for things to get attention, and to distract, and to maybe get him a few votes, and he remembers hearing a lot of people supporting a pardon for Snowden. He's desperate, and so he's floating the idea.

Notice how often he blurts out his real reason for things, he's a bit of an idiot as a bad guy like that. And he going on and on about how he heard a lot of people want a pardon.
 
“.....treated unfairly.”

That’s the tell.
 
Trump: ‘A lot of people’ think Edward Snowden ‘not being treated fairly’

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Trump has commuted the prison sentence of a crony who lied to Congress to protect him, and he has pardoned US war criminals.

Trump has no appreciation for Rule of Law. Why wouldn't he also pardon an American cyber-traitor who fled to Russia?
Obama should of pardoned him. This is long overdue and his case is exactly what pardons were meant for. Yes he broke the law but he did it to expose people in government spying on us and lying to cover it up.

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Trump: ‘A lot of people’ think Edward Snowden ‘not being treated fairly’

trump-snowden.jpg



Trump has commuted the prison sentence of a crony who lied to Congress to protect him, and he has pardoned US war criminals.

Trump has no appreciation for Rule of Law. Why wouldn't he also pardon an American cyber-traitor who fled to Russia?

It is interesting that he chose Russia. What intelligence favors has he provided them?

Our alleged wars on crime, drugs, and terror overseas are compromised and worthless.
 
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