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Buttigieg says Trump slandering troops by mulling pardons for those accused of war crimes
Fox News.com ^ | May 26, 2019 | Adam Shaw

Posted on 05/26/2019 10:05:44 AM PDT by Kaslin

Democratic 2020 presidential hopeful Pete Buttigieg, in an interview that aired Sunday, said President Trump had slandered American troops by considering pardoning servicemen accused of war crimes -- and said the proposal threatened to undermine the country’s “legal and moral” foundations.

“When you serve, you are agreeing to serve the Constitution and uphold the law and, frankly, his idea that being sent to fight makes you automatically into some kind of war criminal is a slander against veterans that could come only from somebody who never served,” the South Bend, Ind., mayor said on ABC News’ “This Week.”

Buttigieg, an Afghanistan War veteran, was responding to remarks Trump made Friday in which the president said he was “looking” at possible pardons. The New York Times had first reported Trump was considering granting pardons to soldiers accused of war crimes around Memorial Day.

“Some of these soldiers are people that have fought hard and long,” Trump told reporters. “You know, we teach them how to be great fighters, and then when they fight, sometimes they get really treated very unfairly.”

Trump said he was considering pardons for “two or three of them” but said he hadn’t yet made a decision.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Editorial; Politics/Elections; War on Terror
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1 posted on 05/26/2019 10:05:44 AM PDT by Kaslin
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To: Kaslin

Buttplug is nuts!


2 posted on 05/26/2019 10:06:48 AM PDT by amnestynone (We are asked by people who do not tolerate us to tolerate the intolerable in the name of tolerance.)
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To: Kaslin
his idea that being sent to fight makes you automatically into some kind of war criminal

Does he know that is an asinine characterization of the President's position? Or is he utterly deluded?

3 posted on 05/26/2019 10:09:39 AM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
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To: Kaslin

He’s incoherent.


4 posted on 05/26/2019 10:10:00 AM PDT by americas.best.days... ( Donald John Trump has pulled the sword from the stone.)
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To: Kaslin

Pete.....don’t talk with your mouth full.


5 posted on 05/26/2019 10:10:04 AM PDT by blueunicorn6 ("A crack shot and a good dancer")
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To: blueunicorn6

Butt, butt, butt...


6 posted on 05/26/2019 10:12:50 AM PDT by Fightin Whitey
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To: blueunicorn6

He should keep hid mouth shut period.


7 posted on 05/26/2019 10:13:52 AM PDT by Kaslin
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To: Kaslin

Hey, stake whatever contrived position you want...


8 posted on 05/26/2019 10:13:58 AM PDT by Vendome (I've Gotta Be Me https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BB0ndRzaz2o)
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To: Kaslin

Yeah Petie old boy? What’s your view on obama negotiating with terrorists for a TRAITOR?


9 posted on 05/26/2019 10:15:27 AM PDT by Bob434
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What exactly did Buttigieg do in Afghanistan? Stuff that might be similar to what Bowe Bergdahl did, maybe . . . ?


10 posted on 05/26/2019 10:15:41 AM PDT by Olog-hai ("No Republican, no matter how liberal, is going to woo a Democratic vote." -- Ronald Reagan, 1960)
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11 posted on 05/26/2019 10:16:27 AM PDT by billorites (freepo ergo sum)
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To: Kaslin

Pete spends a lot of energy looking for villains, even when none truly exist. He started with talk about VP Pence.


12 posted on 05/26/2019 10:19:15 AM PDT by lee martell
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To: BenLurkin

Yeah I don’t get that statement, doesn’t make any sense. Another twisted logic sound bite.


13 posted on 05/26/2019 10:19:28 AM PDT by Rusty0604 (2020 four more years!)
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To: Kaslin

That faggot would have been removed from my Squadron.

Asshole sex is just that. Demented F-stick he is.


14 posted on 05/26/2019 10:19:35 AM PDT by eyedigress ((Old storm chaser from the west))
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To: Kaslin

He is only demonstrating his own ignorance and hate towards the military.


15 posted on 05/26/2019 10:20:54 AM PDT by Innovative
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To: BenLurkin

“Does he know that is an asinine characterization of the President’s position? Or is he utterly deluded? “

He’s a clueless kid who spouts what he is told without an ounce of comprehension. What the President said is in no way
Related to hat the three dollar bill said.


16 posted on 05/26/2019 10:22:43 AM PDT by billyboy15
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To: Olog-hai

He went to Afghanistan thinking he would be in a meat market among US troops.


17 posted on 05/26/2019 10:24:28 AM PDT by libh8er
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To: Kaslin

You’d think somebody who self-proclaims he was a soldier in a warzone would be more understanding and sympathetic of his fellow brothers and what they had to endure.

Or then maybe he was a desk jockey...


18 posted on 05/26/2019 10:26:52 AM PDT by Skywise
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To: amnestynone

Homos are mentally unstable and need medical attention. Should have a whole team of Doctors working on that warped brain .


19 posted on 05/26/2019 10:27:55 AM PDT by redshawk (0pansy is a Liar and Hates.........he just hates!)
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To: Kaslin

Butti-Judge can be pretty righteous in his condemnation of how President Trump mitigates the wrongs heaped upon combat veterans who were doing their duties to defend the nation to the best of their ability. These sentences were passed by doctrinaire legal minds far from the heat of battle, and some very mistaken motives were attributed to the defendants charged under the relevant articles, as if the charges were simply made up altogether and with no relation to the realities.


20 posted on 05/26/2019 10:28:19 AM PDT by alloysteel (The difference between real life and fiction? Fiction has to make sense and follow some logic.)
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