Edward Snowden shared his thoughts on Twitter about Donald Trump's indictment under the Espionage Act, blaming Washington for selective prosecution. Trump denies all allegations.
He was indicted on June 8 by a grand jury in the southern district of Florida in relation to violating of US national security laws and conspiracy to obstruct justice.
the FBI seized classified documents from Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate in Florida last August after a grand jury issued a subpoena in May 2022 requiring him to return all the documents with classified markings. Meanwhile, he denies all allegations.Snowden blamed Washington for letting the cat out of the bag. “All kidding aside, it’s not wrong to say that the indictment of Donald Trump for mishandling classified documents is a case of selective prosecution.
In a much earlier tweet in 2019, Snowden had also shared a picture of Trump surrounded by large amounts of fast food inside the White House stating, “Did somebody say indictments?”One Twitter user asked Snowden what he would have done in the same shoes to which Snowden said, “Haven’t really thought about it, Hank, but I’d surely reduce the number of things we classify by more than 99% – and you would not find the remainder in my bathroom or behind my Corvette.
The Espionage Act 1971 says that individuals are banned from obtaining “any information related to the national defense with intent or reason to believe that the information may be used for the injury of the United States or to the advantage of any foreign nation,” according to the First Amendment Encylopedia on the Middle Tennessee State University’s website. The law also covers the improper handling of sensitive information related to national security.
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