Posted on 05/18/2019 8:29:11 PM PDT by Innovative
President Trump is preparing to pardon Navy SEAL Edward Gallagher and other members of armed forces accused of war crimes, according to a published report.
In a sign he is considering making the pardons on or around Memorial Day, Trump asked the Justice Department to prepare the requisite paperwork, the New York Times reported Saturday.
Gallagher, a special operations officer, is scheduled to go to trial for allegedly stabbing a wounded prisoner of war to death in Iraq and shooting unarmed civilians in Afghanistan.
Trump recently ordered him transferred to a “less restrictive” prison. Republican lawmakers had called for Gallagher to be released before his trial.
According to the Times, the president might also pardon Army Green Beret Mathew Golsteyn, who was accused of killing an unarmed civilian; Nicholas Slatten, a former Blackwater guard found guilty of shooting dozens of unarmed Iraqis; and a group of Marine snipers accused of defiling a dead Taliban fighter’s corpse.
Earlier this year, Rep. Duncan Hunter (R-Calif.) called on Trump to dismiss Gallagher’s case.
“Chief Gallagher stands accused of murder in the killing of a verified ISIS combatant in a warzone based on inconsistent testimony and without any physical evidence,” Hunter said in a January statement.
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We have a great president who ACTUALLY supports our military.
We send our warriors into UGLY situations with implied instructions to kill the enemy and break his things.
They will ALL die if they have to follow Marquis d’ Queensbury rules on the battlefield
This is another NYT leak. This is intended to demonstrate that the Democrats still run the Executive Branch.
Good. We send these guys out into Hell then second guess everything they do.
It would be nice if these guys dealt with Democrat seditionists like they dealt with ISIS terrorists...
My question is, who seems to be the one(s) behind railroading all these guys?
Sadly, the Democrats get upset when our soldiers kill terrorists and want to try and convict the soldiers, but don’t have problems with the terrorists.
Pardons galore. I love it.
Keep those heads exploding Mr. President. This case has to be investigated by the upper military ranks pro trump. It seems some of his men and commanders did not like his style or his quick ascendency so they tagged him with this to shut him down. Their heads need to roll. The a##hat impostor for 8 years also inflicted his cancer in the military
Yes - now if only all the simpering concern trolls would wake up and stop aiding and abetting the Left.
Then, imprison the JAG officers who prosecuted the case.
War crime creep is a barrier to killing and peace
Trump is preparing to pardon Navy SEAL Edward Gallagher and other members of armed forces accused of war crimes
....Gallagher, a special operations officer, is scheduled to go to trial for allegedly stabbing a wounded prisoner of war to death in Iraq and shooting unarmed civilians in Afghanistan.
Thank you, Mr President!
During WWII, Gen. Eisenhower had 700 American G.I.s hanged for murdering or raping civilians. This turned out to be smart military tactics: as Germany faced defeat, thousands of German troops surrendered to the Americans, because they knew they would be treated humanely; the German troops fighting the Russians fought to the last man, because they knew they faced summary execution.
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