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WIBC 9AM-Noon Podcast

Edward Snowden is now a Russian citizen

WIBC 9AM-Noon Podcast

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4.61.2K Ratings

🗓️ 28 September 2022

⏱️ 4 minutes

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0:00.0

Okay. We want to talk about Edward Snowden. Yes, please. He made some news because

0:06.3

he's now a citizen of Russia. Yes. Since Biden assumed office, let's see here.

0:13.2

Americans have lost what $4,200 in income. This is according to a Heritage Foundation study.

0:20.4

The poll revealed that economic issues remain the number one issue for voters and

0:25.9

Donald Trump was going to a one point pardon Snowden. Yes. And he didn't do that. Right. And so what's

0:38.8

going on here? He's he's a Russian citizen now. Yes. And he could be conscripted to fight in

0:46.4

Russia's war in Ukraine. The Edward Snowden saga is one of the dark points of American history,

0:54.4

the whole thing. But of course, it obviously starts with what Edward Snowden revealed, which is the

1:01.6

mass along with Julian Assange is the mass weaponization of the US government against its citizens.

1:10.8

Did he put some things out there that didn't pertain to that? Yeah, probably. But the bad guy in

1:16.7

the whole Edward Snowden saga, the main bad guy, the main villain, if you will, is the government.

1:23.1

And Edward Snowden was bold and courageous enough to put a whole bunch of stuff out there that

1:27.2

showed how the US government from not just Bush, but also Obama. You know, people always give Obama

1:35.2

a free pass on this and Obama was just bush on steroids. Obama did all the stuff Bush did and

1:39.8

then added to it. You know, he didn't solve any wars. He didn't, you know, do the things he promised.

1:45.8

He continued the spying and weaponization of the government against citizens. And Edward Snowden

1:50.6

showed all that to the American people. And instead of being given a parade in the heart of New

1:55.7

York City and having a street named after him, and just a giant thank you, the guy was forced to

2:00.2

flee an exile to Russia, which is where he ended up ultimately because he was afraid for his

2:06.4

life and for his freedom for exposing how our government was weaponizing itself against us.

2:12.4

And Trump had a real opportunity to write that wrong when he was president. And I think that was

2:17.2

a great failure of Trump is that he didn't pardon Edward Snowden and Edward Snowden now is nowhere

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