"I am very happy for Eddie Gallagher and his family!" Trump wrote. In his tweet storm on Wednesday, Trump criticized the Navy prosecutors as having "lost the case" and "for giving immunity in a totally incompetent fashion." Trump also took credit for having released Gallagher "from solitary confinement so he could fight his case properly." One was a medic who surprised prosecutors during the trial by testifying it was he, not Gallagher, who caused the detainee's death by plugging his breathing tube in what the medic described as a mercy killing. Much of the testimony against him came from fellow sailors who were granted immunity from prosecution. Gallagher also was found not guilty of attempted murder charges stemming from the wounding of two unarmed civilians - a school girl and an elderly man - who were shot from a sniper's perch.īut the panel convicted Gallagher of illegally posing for pictures with the detainee's corpse. A total of seven military awards, including the Navy Achievement Medal, and 10 commendation letters recently given to military prosecutors for their work on the Gallagher case were revoked, Navy spokesman Lieutenant Ben Anderson said.Īnderson said he did not know if Spencer had acted on Trump's orders or took action before the president's tweets.Ī military jury in San Diego acquitted the decorated platoon leader of charges that he murdered a captured ISIS terrorist by stabbing the wounded prisoner in the neck.
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