Donald Trump's Teased Pardon of Edward Snowden Brought out Fire and Fury on Social Media

Any more criminals and traitors trump can pardon?

Another thing to check off on his Russia-related "before I'm out of office" checklist. Mark my words...he will be removing Russian sanctions before he leaves office. THAT is what Putin wants most of all!

Two thoughts here:
1) Of course Trump will pardon Snowden, since Snowden gave our secrets to Putin.
2) People keep acting like Snowden was some master hacker. He got clearance to look at classified files and he abused it by copying them to a flash drive and dumping them.

Pretty sure Snowden hasn’t been tried and convicted and therefore can’t be pardoned

There is always a tweet🙄 pic.twitter.com/tMxcnlkDnn

cool pic.twitter.com/YiurGTUbvd

If Trump does this say goodbye to people with clearances keeping classified information secret. Snowden will rightly be viewed to have profited from what he did.

A pardon of Snowden would be an insult to all the dedicated people with clearances who work hard every day to safeguard the information they are entrusted with.

"I'm going to take a very good look into it" usually means he will forget about it 5 minutes later.

Trump's base will applaud anything he does but might this be a bridge too far for many Republican Senators?. But if he's reelected what's to stop him?

Where is the outrage @tedcruz @JohnCornyn @LindseyGrahamSC @SenRonJohnson you lot are very quiet!!! Snowden gave away US Intelligence to our enemies.

Nope. He knew he was guilty of espionage and fled the country with his spoils. President Obama asked him to come back and face a trial if he wanted leniency but he refused.

There’s always a tweet, Snowden pardon edition https://t.co/93SvCRbwDg

Imagine my surprise to find only the worst people in the country willing to speak against a pardon this time around. How far we've come!