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https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/aug/14/edward-snowden-trump-presidential-pardon-speculationSpeculation is growing over whether Donald Trump might pardon Edward Snowden after the US president told an interviewer that the exiled former intelligence operative was “not being treated fairly”.
The comments came as the Kentucky congressman Thomas Massie, a Republican, made a surprising call on Friday for Snowden to receive a presidential pardon.
Massie, whom Trump has previously attacked, tweeted that Trump “should pardon” Snowden, 37.
Trump himself mused this week on Snowden, in an interview with the New York Post.
“There are a lot of people that think that he is not being treated fairly. I mean, I hear that,” Trump told the newspaper.
He added: “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.”
