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struggle4progress

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Thu Nov 2, 2017, 11:47 PM Nov 2017

Tough talk may do more harm than good

Charis Chang

... Overnight Mr Trump tweeted that Sayfullo Saipov, 29, should be sent to Guantánamo Bay detention camp and get the death penalty ...

... legal experts have suggested the tweets could guarantee Saipov won’t get the death penalty ...

Mr Trump was. . critical of Bergdahl, repeatedly calling him a "dirty, rotten traitor" who deserved to be executed by firing squad or thrown out of a plane without a parachute ...

"I will consider the president’s comments as mitigation evidence as I arrive at an appropriate sentence," the judge, Colonel Jeffery R. Nance of the Army, reportedly said during the hearing last month at Fort Bragg ...

http://www.news.com.au/finance/work/leaders/donald-trumps-tough-talk-may-actually-do-more-harm-than-good/news-story/34e869bc9da80ac86c3f9e01aa5b0eed

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