After watching that news conference, a friend of mine said:
"You know, that's the most heterosexual I have ever seen Obama act."
That's right.And if Trump had lost his comments would be a non-issue.But Trump won and is *now* part of the accused's chain of command.Seems to me that that's what his lawyers will focus on in the appeals.
Mind you I don't think he should prevail but we *are* talking about lawyers here.
And having been an Army Chaplin it's hard to imagine that you don't have at least a somewhat deeper (if not dramatically deeper) understanding of such things than this humble SP5 from many years ago so maybe I shouldn't be challenging your judgement! ;-)
If I were Bergdahl’s lawyers, at this point I’d tell him to let the trial proceed and see what the judgement is. My personal sense is that he’s gonna get about an 8 year sentence with his Taliban time counting against it, so he’ll end up with about 3 more years.
That would be a gift, and I’d tell him to take it and run. So, don’t appeal anything until the judgement. (He knows he’s not innocent.)
They are NOT going to execute or life imprison him. It just isn’t going to happen. He’s clearly guilty of desertion, but no one can ABSOLUTELY prove he caused the death of anyone. I believe that he did, but I can only provide circumstantial information demonstrating it.
So, 8-10 years with time served.
After watching that news conference, a friend of mine said:
"You know, that's the most heterosexual I have ever seen Obama act."