BREAKING🚨 He gave ICE agents a passcode that wiped his phone at customs — now Trump’s DOJ wants to throw him in PRISON for 5 years. Samuel Tunick was returning home to Atlanta after a vacation in the Dominican Republic when federal agents pulled him into a secondary inspection room at Hartsfield-Jackson airport. What he did not know was that three hours before his plane landed, a Homeland Security agent had circulated his name and photo to an FBI terrorism task force and a Customs and Border Protection tactical terrorism team, flagging him for “suspected terrorism activities.” But once Samuel was inside the room, federal officers said they were looking for child exploitation material. The government offered no evidence explaining that accusation. He asked for a lawyer FOUR times. Each request was rejected. Officers never read him his rights or produced a warrant. When he challenged them, they told him customs was “a whole different ballgame” and demanded access to his phone. Finally, he gave them a passcode. A CBP officer entered it. The screen flashed, went blank, and restarted. Samuel's Google Pixel ran GrapheneOS, a privacy-focused version of Android with a duress code that can erase the device when someone is forced to unlock it. Agents seized the now-empty phone anyway. Ten months later, a grand jury charged him with destroying property to prevent a federal seizure. His public defender found just one other prosecution under the same extraordinarily rare statute. The indictment even misspells “United States” as “Untied States.” Samuel's lawyers say the child-exploitation questioning was merely a pretext to search for information about Defend the Atlanta Forest, the movement opposing Atlanta’s Cop City police complex. The government’s own reports, they argue, contain no evidence that he committed any crime connected to that movement. And here is the contrast. Five days after that airport interrogation, Trump’s DOJ moved to end the classified-documents case against Donald Trump's co-defendents Walt Nauta and Carlos De Oliveira. They had been accused of helping Trump hide subpoenaed boxes and attempting to delete Mar-a-Lago surveillance footage. That case was closed. But when a border officer entered an Samuel's passcode and erased his phone, Trump’s DOJ found an obscure statute and came back ten months later with a felony indictment.