Posted on 11/15/2019 1:45:57 PM PST by 11th_VA
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump is expected to intervene in three military justice cases involving service members charged with war crimes any day, issuing pardons or otherwise clearing them of wrongdoing and preventing the U.S. military from bringing the same charges again, three U.S. officials said Thursday.
White House and Pentagon officials have been working out the details for days, said the officials, speaking on the condition of anonymity due to the sensitivity of the issue. The details were not all clear, but the move is expected to involve executive clemency, in which Trump can pardon someone or shorten a prison sentence through commutation....
...The cases include that of Army Maj. Mathew Golsteyn, a former Special Forces officer who faces a murder trial in the 2010 death of a suspected Taliban bomb maker; former Chief Petty Officer Eddie Gallagher, a Navy SEAL who recently was acquitted of murder but convicted of posing with an Islamic State corpse; and former Army 1st Lt. Clint Lorance, who was convicted of second-degree murder in 2013 and is serving a 19-year prison sentence for ordering his soldiers to open fire on three men in Afghanistan.
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Thank God we have a President who has the courage to do what paper Generals don’t have the balls to do.
And then summarily executed.
It’s done.
The three are pardoned.
GOAT POTUS
Trump pardons all three, time now.
Now this is effin winning
WaPo already whining.
claiming the Pentagon opposes this
There’s a reason the Pentagon is shaped like an asshole.
Glad to see Obama’s corrupt service JAG officers and fake political hack general officers indignant and fuming at the Commander in Chief.
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