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MARYLAND, January 15, 2018 (LifeSiteNews) – Bradley “Chelsea” Manning, who was convicted of violating U.S. espionage law and received taxpayer-funded “sex change” hormones in military prison, announced that he is running in the Democratic primary for a U.S. Senate seat.
Manning came to fame after leaking over 700,000 secret and/or sensitive U.S. government documents to WikiLeaks. He was court-martialed in 2013 and sentenced to 35 years in prison. Manning began that sentence at the United States Disciplinary Barracks, a military prison in Fort Leavenworth, Kansas before President Obama commuted his sentence in 2017. Obama left office shortly after doing so.
“It is incredibly ironic that a person who has betrayed his country is now considering running for the U.S. Senate, as is the case with [Bradley] Chelsea Manning,” Lt. Gen. (ret.) Jerry Boykin, Executive Vice President of the Family Research Council, told LifeSiteNews. “Manning has done tremendous damage to America and should be serving the remainder of his prison sentence rather than planning for a run for the U.S. Senate in Maryland.”
Manning filed his statement of candidacy with the Federal Election Committee on January 11. The seat for which he is running is
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