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Temple Regular Member
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Subject: --- Convicted War Criminal to Campaign With Trump.. Mon Nov 25, 2019 10:53 pm
Published 5 mins ago on November 25, 2019
Trump wants convicted war criminal to be a 2020 campaign surrogate following a presidential pardon
President Donald Trump is telling his allies that he wants Navy SEAL and convicted war criminal Eddie Gallagher to appear as a special guest with him at campaign events for his 2020 re-election.
Trump pardoned Gallagher in mid-November, over the objections of many veterans’ groups and military officers who warned it would encourage other servicemembers to break the laws of war and disrespect their chain of command.
He subsequently shut down a Navy review board into whether to strip Gallagher of his trident pin, and fired Navy Secretary Richard Spencer for objecting.
Gallagher was court-martialed on several serious charges in 2018, including murder, attempted murder, aggravated assault of non-combatants, and obstruction of justice.
He was accused by his fellow SEALs of stabbing a teenage prisoner to death with a hunting knife, randomly firing sniper rifles and rockets into areas with no enemy combatants, and threatening to kill fellow officers who testified against him. He was ultimately acquitted on most of these charges after blunders by the prosecution but was convicted of desecrating the corpse of the teenage prisoner.
Despite all of this, Gallagher became a right-wing cause célèbre, with Fox News commentators and Republican lawmakers urging he be let off.
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Posts : 1724 Join date : 2019-02-04 Age : 65
Subject: Re: --- Convicted War Criminal to Campaign With Trump.. Tue Nov 26, 2019 1:42 pm
I like him already!
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Subject: Re: --- Convicted War Criminal to Campaign With Trump.. Tue Nov 26, 2019 3:14 pm
Senators challenge Trump on military pardons
Senators want to know whether the Justice Department’s Office of the Pardon Attorney was involved in the decisions to pardon soldiers accused of unlawful military executions, including fatal shootings of unarmed civilians.
“While the president possesses broad pardon powers, these pardons were issued in the face of strong opposition from senior military officials, who warned that such pardons would undermine the U.S. military justice system and shake faith in our military’s commitment to abide by the laws of war,” the senators wrote in a letter to Rosalind Sargent-Burns, the acting pardon attorney at the Justice Department.
The lawmakers sent their letter Tuesday after Secretary of Defense Mark Esper fired Navy Secretary Richard Spencer after Spencer attempted to negotiate a deal with the White House to keep the president from intervening in the controversy over Navy SEAL Eddie Gallagher.
Gallagher was acquitted of shooting unarmed civilians and killing a captured teenage combatant with a knife but convicted of posing with a corpse.
Trump announced last week that he would not let the Navy strip Gallagher of his Trident pin, which signifies membership in the elite SEALS combat force.
The president earlier this month also pardoned Army First Lt. Clint Lorance, who was serving a 19-year prison sentence at Fort Leavenworth in Kansas for killing two unarmed civilians, and Army Major Matt Golsteyn, who was charged with illegally executing a suspected bomb maker.
“When President Trump’s plan to intervene in these cases was first reported in early November, the Department of Defense was so alarmed that Secretary of Defense Esper and other senior military officials reportedly orchestrated a lobbying effort to dissuade the President from doing so. The Pentagon’s concerns about President Trump’s pardons have been echoed by many respected U.S. military figures,” Leahy and Whitehouse wrote.
The senators want to know whether the White House reached out to Justice’s pardon attorney for advice, as well as the timing of such outreach if it occurred.
They also asked whether the pardon attorney provided any recommendations to the White House on the three cases and, if so, the details and rationales for those recommendations.
“The President’s pardon powers are virtually absolute. That is precisely why safeguards must be in place to ensure that they are wielded judiciously – institutional safeguards like your office, which exists to ensure that the President’s pardon powers are exercised fairly and in the interests of justice,” Leahy and Whitehouse wrote.
The senators have asked for answers to their questions no later than Dec. 13.
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The Wise And Powerful Admin
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Subject: Re: --- Convicted War Criminal to Campaign With Trump.. Tue Nov 26, 2019 3:20 pm
Sens. Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.) and Sheldon Whitehouse (D-R.I.), two members of the Senate Judiciary Committee, are pressing the Department of Justice to answer questions about President Trump’s pardons of U.S. soldiers accused of war crimes.
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Subject: Re: --- Convicted War Criminal to Campaign With Trump.. Tue Nov 26, 2019 3:59 pm
At pardoning ceremony, Trump jokes turkeys have been subpoenaed UPDATED ON: NOVEMBER 26, 2019 / 3:16 PM / CBS NEWS
President Trump issued the turkey "Butter" a full and complete pardon in the Rose Garden Tuesday, in keeping with the annual White House tradition, while also sparing the life of the other turkey, "Bread."
Alluding to Democrats' ongoing impeachment inquiry, the president joked that both turkeys "already received subpoenas to appear in Adam Schiff's basement on Thursday."
"Thankfully, Bread and Butter have been specially raised by the Jacksons to remain calm under any condition, which will be very important because they've already received subpoenas to appear in Adam Schiff's basement on Thursday. It's true," the president joked. "Hundreds of people have. It seems the Democrats are accusing me of being too soft on turkey. But Bread and Butter, I should note that unlike previous witnesses, you and I have actually met. It's very unusual. I expect this pardon will be a very popular one with the media. After all, turkeys are closely related to vultures. I don't know if I like that line, but there is a little truth to it."
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