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Ad Misleads: Trump Not Charged as Spy

Posted on AllSides June 19th, 2023
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FACT CHECK

The latest ad from the anti-Trump Lincoln Project promotes the same mistaken argument that Donald Trump himself has made — that the former president has been charged with spying or espionage. Trump was charged under a part of the Espionage Act concerning the willful retention of national defense information. That’s different from spying.

The ad likens Trump to some of the country’s worst traitors, all charged under different portions of the Espionage Act related to passing classified information to U.S. adversaries, either the former Soviet Union or Cuba. That’s not what Trump...

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https://www.factcheck.org/2023/06/ad-misleads-trump-not-charged-as-spy/

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