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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsDonald Trump says he will block military from removing Navy SEAL Eddie Gallagher
WASHINGTON President Donald Trump said Thursday that he will block possible military efforts to remove the Navy SEAL whose demotion over a war crimes charge he reversed last week.
"The Navy will NOT be taking away Warfighter and Navy Seal Eddie Gallaghers Trident Pin," Trump tweeted. "This case was handled very badly from the beginning. Get back to business!"
Gallagher is one of the three defendants in war crimes cases in which Trump intervened last week, issuing pardons to two soldiers and restoring Gallagher's rank and pay.
Gallagher was accused of using a knife to murder a teenage Islamic State prisoner in Iraq and of killing other civilians. A military court found Gallagher not guilty of the most serious charges in July but convicted him of posing for a photo with the ISIS victim.
The Navy has since said it plans to review Gallagher's status as Navy SEAL, a decision that would likely result in Gallagher being removed from the elite commando community the development Trump has vowed to block.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/donald-trump-says-he-will-block-military-from-removing-navy-seal-eddie-gallagher/ar-BBX6FUr?li=BBnbfcL
Trump thinks he's smarter than our military leaders.
mucifer
(23,565 posts)bluestarone
(17,030 posts)Need i say again what an asshole he is?
Wounded Bear
(58,706 posts)Mike 03
(16,616 posts)If so, Gallagher is guilty. So how can the Navy ignore that?
secondwind
(16,903 posts)True_Blue
(3,063 posts)Hopefully the Republicans in the Senate will do the right thing for the Country & their political futures & impeach him.
All I can say is, Thank God we took back the House in 2018!
SWBTATTReg
(22,166 posts)after he gets completed with his service if not drummed out first? He'll be reviled, dishonorable discharge, and worse, no matter where he goes in this Country, for the most part.
president bone spurs is showing his true pathetic colors and it is sickening.
Wellstone ruled
(34,661 posts)This will have repercussions in the Pentagon.
Guy Whitey Corngood
(26,505 posts)generals......
sakabatou
(42,174 posts)liberaltrucker
(9,130 posts)with no air conditioning.
bluestarone
(17,030 posts)The middle of the ocean.
Ilsa
(61,698 posts)I'd love to see how it plays out.