The Espionage Act needs to be repealed after the Justice Department revealed that Donald Trump is being investigated for possibly violating the law.

The Espionage Act was used to jail people who disagreed with the war. It's time to repeal the 1st amendment.

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.

Repeal the Espionage Act – The Future of Freedom Foundation https://t.co/3KCgujpS9z

August 13th, 2022.

He included a photo of a man who leaked a trove of Hillary Clinton and Democratic Party emails, with the help of Russian intelligence, who went on to win the election. The lawyer for Assange said in 2020 that Trump offered to pardon him if he didn't implicate the Russians.

Even though Trump signed a law making it a felony to mishandle classified documents, Paul was able to exonerate him by simply eliminating the law.

11 sets of classified information and around 20 boxes of items were taken from Mar-a-Lago by FBI agents last Monday. He left office and the material was supposed to go to the archives.

The Espionage Act may have been violated by the former president.

LOL. What a surprise. Trump violates the Espionage Act and Rand’s response is to repeal it.

— Stripe (@Justme10000000) August 13, 2022

I guess I missed him making this recommendation for Reality Winner & Ed Snowden, ????

— Mary:🧡A Republic, if we can keep it.Ben Franklin (@sicommuter58) August 13, 2022

Wow.

You really will follow him all the way off the cliff.

— CAMPBIZZLE (@happycrazytown) August 13, 2022

Who you working for homie??

— Rex Chapman🏇🏼 (@RexChapman) August 13, 2022

The article was first published on HuffPost.

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