Support for President Trump to pardon Edward Snowden and Julian Assange ramps up after General Flynn Pardon
On Wednesday, Nov. 25, President Trump announced a full pardon for General Michael Flynn. Following the announcement, supporters of pardons for Edward Snowden and Julian Assange flooded the internet asking for their pardons.
In a tweet Wednesday, November 25, President Trump announced that his former national security adviser General Michael Flynn was granted a full pardon.
Soon after the announcement, supporters of pardons for Edward Snowden and Julian Assange flooded the reply section of Trump’s Tweet and social media.
Almimmediately after the announcement, Julian Assange and Edward Snowden were trending on Twitter.
Glenn Greenwald, the Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist who is best known for publishing a series of reports based on documents provided to him by Edward Snowden, tweeted out support for pardons of Edward Snowden and Julian Assange.
“It’s hard to imagine anything that would shape Trump’s legacy better, and that would provoke cheers from everyone in the US and around the world (except John Brennan, James Clapper, Susan Rice & Michael Hayden) than a pardon of Edward Snowden & Julian Assange.”
In a series of Tweets, Greenwald discussed how the Flynn prosecution “an abuse of FBI power, politically motivated,”.
Continuing, “and a violation of the long-time liberal-left view, best expressed by RBG, that lying to FBI without more isn’t even a crime. But liberals cheered it because they’re authoritarians”.
In his Tweet, he made a dig at his former online publication The Intercept by using one of its articles as an example of “a violation of the long-time liberal-left view, best expressed by RBG, that lying to FBI without more isn’t even a crime.”