WASHINGTON (US) – President Donald Trump said on Monday that he would pardon a “very, very important” person on Tuesday, adding that it would not be Edward Snowden or former national security adviser Michael Flynn.
“Doing a pardon tomorrow on someone who is very, very important,” Trump said.
He said it was not Flynn nor Snowden, a former National Security Agency contractor, who is living in Russia after being charged with leaking sensitive information.
The president said on Saturday he was considering pardoning Snowden, who provided secret files in 2013 to news organisations that disclosed vast domestic and international surveillance operations carried out by NSA.
On the other hand, Flynn twice pleaded guilty to lying to the FBI about his conversations with then Russian envoy Sergey Kislyak. The US Justice Department has sought to dismiss the case against Flynn after pressure from Trump and his allies.
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