![]() "This case was handled very badly from the beginning. "The Navy will NOT be taking away Warfighter and Navy Seal Eddie Gallagher's Trident Pin," the president wrote. But on Thursday, Trump weighed in again, saying in a tweet that he will not allow one of the service members to be ejected from the Navy SEALs. Trump's intervention in the cases prompted a sharp backlash from some veterans and legal experts, who said that it will undermine the military justice system and weaken U.S. "I told him, 'Sir, it was quite clear that the outcome was fixed.' And he said, 'Yeah, that was my thoughts, as well.' " "I'm paraphrasing here, but he asked, 'Did you feel like you were going to get a fair shake or that it was slanted or biased against you?' " Golsteyn said in an interview. But Trump talked to him for nearly 15 minutes, asking questions about his plans for the future and the Pentagon's application of military justice. Mathew Golsteyn, who faced a murder trial next year in the 2010 death of a suspected Taliban bombmaker, said he expected the call to be quick. ![]() ![]() service members accused of war crimes that he was intervening on their behalf and issuing full pardons in two of the cases as Vice President Mike Pence, top political officials and lawyers listened on speakerphone.Īrmy Maj. WASHINGTON - President Donald Trump took to the phone in the Oval Office last week after days of speculation. ![]()
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