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GREENWALD: "Trump's failure to pardon Assange and Snowden was one of the worst and most cowardly mistakes he made"
twitter ^ | June 18 | Glenn Greenwald

Posted on 06/18/2022 6:13:25 AM PDT by RandFan

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Hard to disagree with this brutal assessment.

Trump WAS threatened by Mitch McConnell and senators though...

1 posted on 06/18/2022 6:13:25 AM PDT by RandFan
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To: RandFan

Agree


2 posted on 06/18/2022 6:15:11 AM PDT by silverleaf (“Freedom ultimately means the right of other people to do things that you disagree with”. T. Sowell )
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To: RandFan

McConnell’s threat would’ve been easily followed through on.

Frankly I don’t know how any executive can defy the deep state and expect to keep their job. An honest media would be imperative and we all know such does not exist.


3 posted on 06/18/2022 6:16:18 AM PDT by skeeter
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To: RandFan

That and not forcing Wall $$$$$$$ on the first budget


4 posted on 06/18/2022 6:17:05 AM PDT by Oystir
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To: RandFan

Assange and Snowden are scumbags


5 posted on 06/18/2022 6:17:10 AM PDT by butlerweave
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To: RandFan

He shouldn’t have discussed it (nor a lot of other things) with that stable of traitors - just wait until the last minute and do it.


6 posted on 06/18/2022 6:17:56 AM PDT by Mr. Jeeves ([CTRL]-[GALT]-[DELETE])
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To: silverleaf

Don’t forget Sirhan Sirhan. Shouda done it on the 50th anniversary of Chappaquidditck in 2019.


7 posted on 06/18/2022 6:18:06 AM PDT by DIRTYSECRET
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To: RandFan

If Trump gets in again, he needs to swing for the fences and have no fear of anyone. The Left doesn’t compromise and we should not either. Use the power. Use all of it. Be bolder than the Left. Make the world new.


8 posted on 06/18/2022 6:19:25 AM PDT by ClearCase_guy (I don't want to be part of a union of 50 states. We tried that. It doesn't work.)
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To: RandFan

Pompeo was the one behind this. This was the danger in allowing RINOs into the Trump admin.

Pompeo was crowing with joy over the Biden admin getting to finish off Assange.


9 posted on 06/18/2022 6:20:11 AM PDT by dforest (We have to put a stop to this now.)
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Disagree. Snowden is a traitor who stole 1.7 million secret documents and gave it to first China and then Russia. Classic ego case. He thought he is going to be famous and admired by all. Instead he is sitting in Russia drinking himself to death like the other traitors.

Assange is Australian so perhaps not right to call him a traitor, but he is a sick anti-western activist.

His initial claim to fame was somehow getting a hold of secret technical documents about the Warlock IED jamming system. These were secret for a reason. He published these to the world saying “See, this is how you can beat the system! How sad!” knowing full well how this publishing of secret information is only going to help the bomb-makers to kill more Americans and allies.

His meteor rise to fame was when he published and promoted a stolen video of a helicopter in a justified shooting in Iraq and he did it in a manipulated form to mislead the public into unfairly blaming the US.


10 posted on 06/18/2022 6:23:03 AM PDT by Krosan
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To: butlerweave

They are heroes.


11 posted on 06/18/2022 6:23:56 AM PDT by DesertRhino (Dogs are called man's best friend. Moslems hate dogs. Add it up..)
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To: RandFan

Was it cowardice or pragmatism or honest belief? I hesitate to call Trump a coward, as he put up with more hatred and scheming than most Presidents short of Nixon, Kennedy, Lincoln, McKinley, Garfield.


12 posted on 06/18/2022 6:24:12 AM PDT by PghBaldy (12/14/12 - 930am -rampage begins... 12/15/12 - 1030am - Obama team scouts photo-op locations.)
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To: RandFan

Trump must have been shocked to discover just how large and deep the Deep State swamp is.


13 posted on 06/18/2022 6:24:16 AM PDT by airborne (Thank you Rush for helping me find FreeRepublic! )
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To: ClearCase_guy

If Trump gets in again, he needs to swing for the fences and have no fear of anyone. The Left doesn’t compromise and we should not either. Use the power. Use all of it. Be bolder than the Left. Make the world new.


Easy to say when your children and grandchildren lives are not on the line.


14 posted on 06/18/2022 6:25:33 AM PDT by Chickensoup ( Leftists totalitarian fascists are eradicating conservatives)
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To: ClearCase_guy

The problem is “our” party does not support us. If Trump gets in again the GOP will resist him as it did before. The GOP will be led by the same kind of deceitful cowards who have no regard whatsoever for the will of its voters.


15 posted on 06/18/2022 6:25:37 AM PDT by Starboard
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For me Snowden and Assange fall into more of a gray category rather than black/white.

Regardless of exactly where one comes down on them, it's a fantasy to think any Commander in Chief is going to pardon someone who leaked literally hundreds of thousands of US military documents.
16 posted on 06/18/2022 6:28:13 AM PDT by Observator
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To: RandFan
He got scared by threats from GOP Senators that they'd vote for impeachment if he did it.

You do what's right because it's the right thing to do.

Trump's pardons were horrible. No Assange, Snowden. No Ross Ulbrecht (but a whole bunch of black drug dealers got pardoned). None of the January 6th trespassers.

But he hooked up Kwame Kilpatrick, Rod Blagojevich, and a slew of Wall Street crooks and swindlers.

17 posted on 06/18/2022 6:29:13 AM PDT by Drew68 (Ron DeSantis for President 2024)
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Trump's pardons were horrible.

It's not just Trump, you can set your watch by it. Every 4 years a new set of scumbags receive their get out of jail free card. I wouldn't mind that power going away.
18 posted on 06/18/2022 6:31:58 AM PDT by Observator
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To: RandFan

What’s with Greenwald throwing around the word ‘cowardly’

Trump is anything but cowardly!

I don’t appreciate this from Greenwald even though I have generally liked his writings


19 posted on 06/18/2022 6:33:36 AM PDT by Guenevere (“If the foundations are destroyed, what can the righteous do?”)
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To: RandFan

Agree. Loved Marjorie Taylor Greene standing up to Trump for Assange and Snowden in 2020, and her comments on Assange yesterday.


20 posted on 06/18/2022 6:34:51 AM PDT by sockmonkey (Conservative. Not a Neocon.)
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