Former President Donald Trump revealed in a new interview with conservative commentator Candace Owens that he had been “very close” to pardoning Julian Assange or Edward Snowden.

In the season finale of her show “Candace,” on The Daily Wire, Owens asked Trump why he did not pardon either of the two whistleblowers during his presidency.

“So, you have two sides of it. In one case, you have sort of a spy deal going on, and then another case, you have somebody that’s exposing real corruption,” the former president began.

Trump said that he felt a “little bit more strongly” about one than the other, and though he did not specify who that was, he acknowledged that he “could have done it,” referring to a pardon.

“I will say you have people on both sides of that issue. Good people on both sides, and you have some bad people on one side. But I decided to let that one ride, let the courts work it out. And I guess the courts are actually doing that,” the former president explained.