In an exclusive chit-chat from the big house, where he’s currently chilling out serving a 15-year sentence for what the feds called one of the most significant leaks of U.S. national defense secrets, Jack Teixeira finally opened up for the first time since his collar over two years ago. He spilled the beans to ABC News, claiming he doesn’t really feel like he stabbed his country in the back and would totally pull the same stunt again if he had the chance for a do-over. The 23-year-old had the nerve to say he’s even knocking on President Donald Trump’s door for a get-out-of-jail card in what he called a “politicized” case under the Biden administration.
Teixeira, speaking from a medium-security federal correctional institution in Virginia, babbled, “My goal was to school the United States populist people about what was really going on. I wasn’t trying to do harm to the U.S. or anything because I’m a patriot, you know? I love my nation.” He added, “It wasn’t about throwing shade at my country, but I did think it was crucial to school the people about the shady stuff happening because I believed they were getting fed lies.” The dude even thinks he achieved his mission “to a pretty big extent.”
The prosecutors claim that while doing his thing as a Massachusetts Air National Guardsman, Teixeira abused his top-secret clearance, sneaked a peek at and shared images of hundreds of classified documents, including deets on troop movements in Ukraine and some Chinese spy balloons, on a gaming platform called Discord. One juicy document he shared even talked about “a foreign adversary’s plot to target U.S. forces abroad,” according to the indictment. The FBI had the nerve to say his actions caused “really bad and long-lasting damage to national security,” while the then-Attorney General Merrick Garland accused Teixeira of putting the country’s national security and that of its allies at risk by sharing classified national defense info online just to impress some internet buddies.
