Rand Paul Calls For Repeal of Espionage Act After Trump Raid

Rand Paul Calls For Repeal of Espionage Act After Trump Raid


Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul is calling for a repeal of the Espionage Act following the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s raid of President Trump’s Mar-a-Lago home raid. Paul tweeted this past weekend that the act had been abused since its conception.

“The espionage act was abused from the beginning to jail dissenters of WWI. It is long past time to repeal this egregious affront to the 1st Amendment,” tweeted Paul, linking to an article by the Future of Freedom Foundation.

Part of the link reads: “the Espionage Act, a tyrannical law that was enacted two months after the U.S. entered the war and which, unfortunately, remained on the books after the war came to an end. In fact, it is that World War I relic that U.S. officials are now relying on to secure the criminal indictment of Julian Assange, the WikiLeaks head who released a mountain of evidence disclosing the inner workings and grave wrongdoing on the part of the U.S. national-security establishment, especially with respect to the manner in which it has waged it undeclared forever wars in the Middle East and Afghanistan,” writes Jacob G. Hornberger.

FBI agents executed a search warrant on the Florida estate on Monday, seizing 11 sets of material that wer listed as classified and top secret, reports Fox News.

Trump said in a post to Truth Social that all of the documents taken by federal agents were declassified: “Number one, it was all declassified. Number two, they didn’t need to ‘seize’ anything. They could have had it anytime they wanted without playing politics and breaking into Mar-a-Lago. It was in secured storage, with an additional lock put on as per their request…” Trump said.

“They could have had it anytime they wanted—and that includes LONG ago. ALL THEY HAD TO DO WAS ASK. The bigger problem is, what are they going to do with the 33 million pages of documents, many of which are classified, that President Obama took to Chicago?”


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