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Trump trolls liberals by dangling possible freedom of Edward Snowden. How can they oppose him?! (Free Snowden Now!) trend this!
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President Trump admitted on Friday that he’s considering pardoning the whistleblower Edward Snowden after he polled his aides on the subject Thursday.
Talking with the New York Post, POTUS said, “There are a lot of people that think that he is not being treated fairly. I mean, I hear that.”
Trump said he is open to the possibility of allowing Snowden to return to the U.S. from Russia without being sent to prison.
“Snowden is one of the people they talk about. They talk about numerous people, but he is certainly one of the people that they do talk about,” the president stated on Thursday. “I guess the DOJ is looking to extradite him right now? … It’s certainly something I could look at. Many people are on his side, I will say that. I don’t know him, never met him. But many people are on his side.”
POTUS then turned to his aides, asking, “How do you feel about that, Snowden? Haven’t heard the name in a long time.”
After asking his staff, Trump added, “I’ve heard it both ways. From traitor to he’s being, you know, persecuted. I’ve heard it both ways.”
Snowden caught wind of the president’s remarks, tweeting on Friday, “The last time we heard a White House considering a pardon was 2016, when the very same Attorney General who once charged me conceded that, on balance, my work in exposing the NSA’s unconstitutional system of mass surveillance had been ‘a public service.’” 
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