There was much speculation toward the end of Donald Trump's term as president of the United States that Trump would pardon Edward Snowden, Julian Assange, or both of these men who were responsible for exposing vast amounts of wrongdoing by the US government.
Why? Glenn Greenwald, who played a key role in helping Snowden expose information about the US government's mass surveillance programs and who advocated in public and behind the scenes that Trump pardon both men, has some interesting thoughts about that.
The reason Trump failed to issue a pardon for either Snowden or Assange centers on the deep state trying to protect itself by placing Trump in jeopardy, suggested Greenwald last week in an episode of his System Update show.
In the interview, Trump stated he came "Very close" to pardoning one of them but did not ultimately do so.
Why? Trump said the reason was because Trump "Was too nice" to issue the pardon.
In the System Update episode, Greenwald further explains that Trump's enmity toward these deep state forces that helped lead Greenwald and many other individuals to think that Trump may issue the pardons: Now the argument for why President Trump not only should have pardoned Julian Assange and Edward Snowden, but why some of us believed there was a chance that he could didn't rely on the benevolence of President Trump.
Why? Greenwald states that Greenwald "Knew that Trump wanted to pardon Edward Snowden and had strongly considered pardoning Julian Assange." But, continues Greenwald, Trump "Got scared into pardoning neither of them for reasons I'm about to explain to you." Greenwald then argues that ultimately Trump gave in to deep state pressure applied through Republican Senators' threat to convict Trump on the impeachment brought against him in his final weeks in office.
Monday, January 17, 2022
Glenn Greenwald Discusses the Deep State Effort to Stop Donald Trump from Pardoning Edward Snowden and Julian Assange
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