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Court rejects Bowe Bergdahl's attempt to blame Trump for his desertion conviction
wnd.com ^ | 8/29/2020 | Jack Davis

Posted on 08/30/2020 7:16:42 AM PDT by rktman

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Armed Forces has shot down an effort by convicted deserter and former Army Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl to have his conviction overturned based on comments made about him by President Donald Trump.

"Appellant asks this Court to dismiss with prejudice the charges and specifications against him, or in the alternative, to grant other meaningful relief such as approving a sentence of no punishment. We decline to do so," Judge Kevin A. Ohlson wrote.

In his ruling, Ohlson noted that "it is essential to note that the conduct Appellant engaged in, and the charges to which he pleaded guilty, were very serious offenses for which either a life sentence or the death penalty were authorized punishments."

(Excerpt) Read more at wnd.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Government
KEYWORDS: bowebergdahl; chopoffhisheadontv; deserter
"... a life sentence or the death penalty were authorized punishments..." Uh, beau, take note and shut up. Because, "... Although he was not imprisoned, he was dishonorably discharged as a private...". Count your blessings.
1 posted on 08/30/2020 7:16:42 AM PDT by rktman
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To: rktman

Bergdahl owes a debt to several military families that he will never be able to repay.


2 posted on 08/30/2020 7:18:29 AM PDT by Ouchthatonehurt
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To: Ouchthatonehurt

What’s wrong with American Thinker?


3 posted on 08/30/2020 7:19:38 AM PDT by DIRTYSECRET (urope. Why do they put up with this.)
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To: rktman

Rotten , despicable lawyers ,they know no allegiance except to filthy lucre and mammon


4 posted on 08/30/2020 7:24:26 AM PDT by LeoWindhorse
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To: rktman

Bowe Bergdahl, Obama’s pet Muslim.


5 posted on 08/30/2020 7:25:07 AM PDT by Thommas
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To: rktman

Exactly right. What kook avoids the firing squad and then complains? That’s the very definition of chutzpah.


6 posted on 08/30/2020 7:28:41 AM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom ("And oft conducted by historic truth, We tread the long extent of backward time.")
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He was virtually praised by the lying Jug Ears and Chunk Hagel as a returning hero In the treacherous swap for the five Taliban kingpin leaders.


7 posted on 08/30/2020 7:33:46 AM PDT by Skybird (TRUMP / PENCE 2020 — PROMISES MADE / PROMISES KEPT, AND JUST STARTING!)
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He was virtually praised by the lying Jug Ears and Chunk Hagel as a returning hero in the treacherous swap for the five Taliban kingpin leaders.


8 posted on 08/30/2020 7:38:26 AM PDT by Skybird (TRUMP / PENCE 2020 — PROMISES MADE / PROMISES KEPT, AND JUST STARTING!)
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To: rktman

“I did something bad because I don’t like somebody” is what it boils down to, and not a valid defense, to say the least.


9 posted on 08/30/2020 7:40:06 AM PDT by simpson96
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He needs to get the Private Slovik treatment.


10 posted on 08/30/2020 7:41:12 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: rktman

Don’t want to be convicted of desertion?

Don’t run away from your unit, dumbass

Pres. Trump didn’t do squat, he was merely exercising his right to free speech


11 posted on 08/30/2020 7:47:22 AM PDT by canuck_conservative
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bergdahl is a disgusting piece of filth.


12 posted on 08/30/2020 7:54:05 AM PDT by yldstrk (Bingo! We have a winner!)
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Bowe Bergdahl remains a very sour taste in my mouth and brain! Combat deserter, a hapless POW, an EXCUSE for President Obama to ‘play nice’ with the Taliban, a reproach on the UCMJ that the politicized Court Martial & appeals gave an all too lenient sentence and now he appears again, trying for another bite of that apple. There will be an appeal to the Supreme Court but they may wait to see if a President Biden would do a full pardon. Yes, it is possible and the googleplexd reason to never vote Biden!


13 posted on 08/30/2020 7:55:41 AM PDT by SES1066 (Happiness is a depressed Washington, DC housing market!)
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” . . . either a life sentence or the death penalty were authorized punishments.”

Ungrateful traitor. I would have preferred the death penalty. He’s got HIS favorite president to thank for being a free person today. And to think: Hussein traded FIVE terrorists for this sorry piece of excrement.


14 posted on 08/30/2020 8:07:02 AM PDT by Old Grumpy
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Mookabooker deserves Hanging.


15 posted on 08/30/2020 8:09:42 AM PDT by Joe Boucher ( Molon Labe' Baby, Molon Labe)
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To: rktman
Bowed over Bergsahl, wearing his bacha bazi (gay dancing boy) hat while living with a bunch of big hairy taliban while AWOL, and bad mouthing his country.

There wasn't much entertainment in those isolated mud brick houses, but what there was, they probably took turns getting from Bowed over.


16 posted on 08/30/2020 8:51:08 AM PDT by BeauBo
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Trump’s behavior in this episode has been terrible. Bergdahl would have been much worse off by now if the President could have kept his mouth shut.

At least Obama, after committing a massive unforced error realized he’d screwed up and changed course and left Bergdahl to the military’s criminal justice processes.


17 posted on 08/30/2020 9:34:37 AM PDT by TheEditor
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To: BeauBo
is that his jihaDaddy?
18 posted on 08/30/2020 12:46:33 PM PDT by Chode (Send bachelors and come heavily armed.)
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