Former CIA And NSA Director Michael Hayden Implies Trump Should Be Executed for Taking Classified Docs

Sounds about right. https://t.co/hJCjxhN2BQ

— Gen Michael Hayden (@GenMhayden) August 12, 2022

Former National Security Agency and Central Intelligence Agency Director Michael Hayden listens during a Reuters CyberSecurity Summit in Washington, May 12, 2014. (Larry Downing/Reuters) 

National Review: ‘Sounds about Right’: Ex-CIA Chief Michael Hayden Implies Trump Should Be Executed for Taking Classified Docs 

Former CIA Director Michael Hayden seemed to endorse the execution of former president Donald Trump on Thursday after a report indicated FBI agents were searching the former president’s residence for classified documents related to nuclear weapons.

Hayden responded to a tweet on Thursday by presidential historian Michael Beschloss, who noted that Julius and Ethel Rosenberg, Americans who were convicted of spying on behalf of the Soviet Union, were “convicted for giving U.S. nuclear secrets to Moscow, and were executed June 1953.” 

Hayden, who previously served as director of the National Security Agency and the CIA under former Presidents Bill Clinton, George W. Bush, and Barack Obama, replied to the tweet: “Sounds about right.”  

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Update: MSNBC’s Beschloss, former CIA director Hayden ‘suggest’ Trump be executed for having nuclear documents (FOX News) 

WNU Editor: This is all political, and former President Trump is taking advantage of it .... Trump tells DOJ - let me help you or 'terrible things will happen': Ex-President offers to 'bring the temperature down' in thinly-veiled warning after Mar-a-Lago raid sparked attacks on FBI (Daily Mail). 

And while lawmakers are trying to keep this story alive .... Top lawmakers seek intelligence assessment of documents from Mar-a-Lago (Washington Post), I do not think there is a case to be made even  though there are many calls for the US Department of Justice to indict the former President. 

The former President has already stated publicly that the files in his possession were declassified before he left office, a power that all Presidents have when it comes to declassifying documents.