Donald Trump said he considered pardoning Julian Assange or Edward Snowden during his time as president but ultimately decided not to.

During an interview with Candace Owens for The Daily Wire, the former president said he felt "a little bit more strongly" about one case, but did not specify whether it was the one involving the Wikileaks founder or the National Security Agency (NSA) whistleblower.

Assange is facing extradition to the U.S. to face espionage charges over the leak of thousands of classified documents in 2010 and 2011. Snowden has been exiled in Russia ever since he revealed NSA surveillance techniques were being used against U.S. citizens on a mass scale in 2013.

 

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Assange appeals his extradition to USWikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has requested permission to appeal his extradition to the US with the same British court that ordered it in the first place. He argues that Washington’s assurances are invalid and unreliable. Read more: https://www.rt.com/news/544259-assange-appeal-extradition-court/