Posted on 02/22/2021 3:57:02 PM PST by PROCON
Former Army Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl filed a lawsuit last week alleging President Donald Trump and the late Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) caused “undue command influence” in his 2017 court-martial case in which he pleaded guilty on charges of desertion and misbehavior before the enemy.
Bergdahl’s lawsuit, filed in the Washington D.C. federal court, accuses Trump and McCain of unduly influencing his case and further alleges the judge presiding over his original case had a duty to disclose that he was seeking a “lucrative job” with the Trump-era Department of Justice. Bergdahl’s lawsuit seeks to overturn his 2017 conviction, for which he was reduced to the rank of private and dishonorably discharged.
Bergdahl fell captive to the Taliban in June 2009 after leaving his unit’s outpost in eastern Afghanistan, near the Pakistan border. Bergdahl was held by the Taliban for nearly five years before he was released in May 2014 during a prisoner exchange in which five Taliban detainees at the military prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba were traded for Bergdahl.
The lawsuit notes McCain criticized the prisoner exchange in 2014, saying, “I would not have made this deal . . . .I would not have put the lives of American servicemen at risk in the future.” The lawsuit also says Trump “repeatedly vilified” Bergdahl before the 2016 presidential campaign and described him as a traitor at several campaign rallies “suggesting, among other things, that he should be executed.”
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I'm guessing she'll lay low and avoid comment, but if pressed, she will say her dad, "...was a senator and not in the chain of command so he could not exert undue command influence, but Trump, yeah - he should be sued and pay."
If this POS got what he deserved he’d be in the grave and wouldn’t be filing squat!
You forgot pardoned by Obama
Ping
Obama was the perfect example of why the founders insisted on a natural born citizen and why they were correct to do so.
mookabooker deserves to be hanged in a public forum.
That this trash is above still above ground and breathing is what irks me...just sayin’.
Exactamundo.
And let’s not forget that his father converted to Islam, and after the prisoner exchange he went to the White House and talked in Arabic “because his son forgot how how to speak English”... Then recited the Muslim prayer for victory at the White House. Which made Obama smile.
Command influence requires the parties be in your chain of command.
Statement made while a candidate are statements made by someone not in your chain of command.
Statements made by a senator are statements made by someone not in your chain of commend.
The idea is that these statements would negatively impact the right to a fair trial by influencing jurors to kowtow to the commander either for reward or to avoid punishment.
I can’t imagine a juror soldier thinking that some president or senator would be writing their names in his little black book
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