Donald Trump Says Bowe Bergdahl Should Have Been Executed

[IDemo]

Source: ABC News

Republican presidential front-runner Donald Trump says Army Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl should have been executed for leaving his post in Afghanistan.

Trump made the comments Thursday afternoon at a rowdy rally inside a packed Las Vegas theater at the casino-hotel Treasure Island.

Trump says Bergdahl is a "no-good traitor" and would have been shot 30 years ago.

Bergdahl was charged in March with desertion and misbehavior before the enemy. The Army conducted a hearing on his case earlier this month.

Read more: http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/wireStory/donald-trump-bowe-bergdahl-executed-34353578

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I guess that whole innocent until proven guilty thing is just something for losers.

[underpants]

1. So much for the "soft Donald"

[sulphurdunn]

29. There is only one Donald

and that is the "hollow Donald."

[mindwalker_i]

2. This should be heads-up for anyone considering joing the armed forces

Survive the war, get your asss kicked back at home by the people who sent you to that war.

[Skittles]

3. fuck off, chickenhawk

[Archae]

4. Don't forget, The Donald wanted to execute the kids convicted in the NYC "wilding" case...

And doubled down on that statement after DNA showed who the real rapist was.

[DinahMoeHum]

24. aka the "Central Park Jogger" case.

Trump famously refused to apologize for his ads
http://www.newyorker.com/news/amy-davidson/donald-trump-and-the-central-park-five


Guy's a wanker.

[trillion]

40. He's inflexible and infantile. There's no question why he sank his own company and has to rent space

in trump tower. They lease his name but have said they're dumping it.

[turbinetree]

5. Here you go trumpless....................................

http://www.thesmokinggun.com/documents/celebrity/deferments-helped-trump-dodge-vietnam


And as for good measure, go down to the Vietnam War Memorial and just take gander at the year you started to get your deferments 1968, count how many dead human beings there are on that and each panel.
They died so that you can come out to your right wing little get together today and spew your BS, they are dead---------------you really are a hypocrite---you really are, you have no principles----------------none

I have some friends on those panels---------------they could not get deferments, they couldn't vote, but they could get drafted-------you piece of slime hypocrite-------------go back under your rock





Honk------------------for a political revolution Bernie 2016

[wordpix]

23. "Speaker Rock Replaces John Boehner" ---animated cartoon LMAO

https://www.markfiore.com/mark-fiore-blog/item/cartoons/speaker-rock-replaces-john-boehner.html

I had to post this, since you mentioned crawling back under a rock.

[turbinetree]

26. I liked that......................

thank you, lets see which rock gets to be the speaker of the rocks






Honk-------------for a political revolution Bernie 2016

[Lytex]

6. He had to fight the enemy alone for 4 years and 11 months

Trump never served a day. But here's what the man who debriefed Bergdahl said.
Testifying for the defense, Terrence Russell, an expert with the military’s Joint Personnel Recovery Agency, said Bergdahl suffered torture, abuse and neglect at the hands of Taliban forces, including months of beatings.After the beatings, Bergdahl was held for 3-1/2 years in a metal cage barely big enough to stand in, living in isolation and often blindfolded, Russell testified. Any more beatings would have killed him, Russell said. “His experience ranks at the same echelon of the most horrible conditions of the last 60 years,” said Russell, who debriefed Bergdahl after the soldier was freed by the Taliban in 2014 in exchange for the U.S. release of five Taliban prisoners held at the American naval base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. Russell has debriefed about 125 U.S. POWs, isolated people and detainees.
Bergdahl never gave up trying to escape despite living in deplorable conditions in which he was first beaten and then left to waste away, Russell said.Russell dismissed as outrageous claims that Bergdahl was a Taliban sympathizer or tried to dishonor the military. “He had to fight the enemy alone for four years and 11 months,” he said at the hearing, occasionally wiping back tears.
http://www.oann.com/u-s-armys-bergdahl-to-make-first-court-appearance-in-desertion-case/

[Delphinus]

15. Thank you for

bringing this up here.

And welcome to DU.

[SusanaMontana41]

34. Great information. Thanks so much! eom

[trillion]

41. Yes, please stay!

[NV Whino]

7. Oh, Donald

Your 15 minutes have so expired.

[Liberalagogo]

8. And yet ANOTHER reason

why The Rump with NEVER be President.

It's bad enough that he's a candidate.

[Grassy Knoll]

9. LOL, What A Sad Little Boy...

[TwilightGardener]

10. A billionaire asshole who never served picks on a

junior enlisted 5-year POW with permanent injuries and mental problems. Fucking sick choice of whipping boy.

[sarge43]

11. To be expected. He's a p.o.s. chickenhawk creep n/t

[awoke_in_2003]

12. And yet, a military court says he should not...

goddamned chickenhawks.

[roamer65]

13. tRump is a fascist. N/t

[Delphinus]

14. WTF?!

Why doesn't Donald go over and live the lives of one of the soldiers?

[madokie]

16. Hell for just few days even

no he is a real piece of excrement
anyone supporting him is a traitor to this country in my way of thinking

[trillion]

42. Actually anyone supporting him is also supporting confederate flags, so yeah, they are traitors.

Most of the gunnut need for guns is to take over the government. They want to turn back progress and live in 1950 racist sexist america, not stop big brother.

[The Green Manalishi]

46. Wrong,

They want to live in 1850's America. Slavery, women in their place, the only good Indian a dead indian....

[kacekwl]

17. That's it Donnie

tell the knuckle dragger's what they want to hear.

[daleo]

18. Who was shot 30 years ago?

Is he saying that U.S. soldiers were executed for desertion during the Greneda operation? That's news to me.

[sarge43]

21. The last US military execution 1961. Trump makes it up as he goes along.

Nidal Hasan has been scheduled

[NonMetro]

48. Donald Is Lying

Nobody was executed 30 years ago. No one was executed 50 years ago, either.

[niyad]

19. don't forget, everyone, that the hairpiece knows more, and has more military training, than

actual, active military, thanks to his uber-rich prep school days.

[Person 2713]

20. Fuck you Trump . Hate you more every time you spew more slime

[Lunabell]

22. Says the chickenhawk

chicken shit!

[bullwinkle428]

25. Pretty soon, he'll be arguing that women that have abortions should be executed.

[plus5mace]

31. That might get him the nomination.

[Hortensis]

27. Despicable, but it's getting him the attention he craves.

[sulphurdunn]

28. The Donald oughta know.

Just by his mob like swagger and the way he talks anyone can tell he's an expert on war just like he's an expert on everything else.

[Myrina]

30. ... there goes the Enlisted (and their families) voting block ...

n/t

[AnnieBW]

38. I doubt it

A lot of current and former military members feel the same way about Bergdahl. Heck, I know a few that would like to be on the firing squad.

[The Wizard]

32. A General with some inside knowledge

thinks he should go free. Trump is just spouting the Pox News party line. If it's on Pox News it's false.

[SusanaMontana41]

33. says the man who never served. eom

[Cosmic Dancer]

35. The Republicans

Want to cut Social Security to fund their tax cuts for the rich and the American public is to uninformed (ie to stupid) to figure it out. It's hopeless.

[blackspade]

37. What a flaming asshole.

A disgusting way to treat a POW.

[trillion]

39. Okay, we're over a year away from the elections, and I already can't stand this jackass. I don't

know how I'm going to make it. Usually it gets unbearable in the last 2 months, never this early. Even the majority of Republicans are still saying they won't vote for him no matter what. Go away trump.

[Zambero]

43. Desertion is NOT treason

A traitor is one who has been convicted of treason. There were no military executions for desertion 30 years ago and none since. Furthermore, Bergdahl has not been convicted of anything and consequently any discussion of sentencing in light of presumed innocence prior to a conviction is highly premature. Of course we ware dealing with Donald Trump here, and his propensity for demagoguery and hurling red meat at deranged masses of knuckle dragging fools.

[world wide wally]

44. I'm sure it would be a terrific execution. The best.

This asshole really triggers my gag reflex.
Him, and all the other Republican blowhards.

[WhiteHat]

45. Not that Bergdahl is actually guilty of anything... but who cares?

Bergdahl has been cleared of all charges by a military court. Trump wants him dead anyway. Yeah, go Trumpy-dude. Asshole.

[cindyperry2010]

47. who cares

what mr. toupee has to say

[w0nderer]

49. and when trump's done 6 months in any combat zone

i'll listen to him


till then

*flush*

[NuclearDem]

50. For those keeping score at home, this is the second time Trump's shit on POWs

Combine this with his fake veteran fundraiser, and I can't ever imagine seeing this fucker as commander-in-chief.

[47of74]

51. Fuck you Donald

[Ilsa]

52. Trump is a disgusting excuse for a human being.

And when I consider how many people mindlessly nod their heads in agreement, I want to vomit, then pack and move somewhere where people have more compassion.

What if Bergdahl was their son or daughter? Would they be so quick to judge him so harshly? It reminds me of people who called themselves Christian but shrugged their shoulders in apathy over a dead brother or cousin because they died from AIDS.

[LW1977]

53. It's baffling

Why anyone would want to vote for a guy who bankrupt a casino.

[Milliesmom]

54. Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl be spared jail time, face court martial for leaving post in Afghanistan

Army officer recommends Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl be spared jail time, face court martial for leaving post in Afghanistan

An Army officer is recommending that Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl face a lower-level court martial and be spared the possibility of jail time for leaving his post in Afghanistan, his lawyer said Saturday.

Defense attorney Eugene Fidell said Lt. Col. Mark Visger has decided Bergdahl’s case should go to a military system similar to civilian courts that handle misdemeanor charges. It limits the maximum punishment to reduction of rank, a bad conduct discharge and a short jail term, though that isn’t being sought, Fidell said.

Military prosecutors charged Bergdahl in March with desertion and misbehavior before the enemy, a charge that could carry a maximum penalty of life imprisonment.

(Read more )
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/army-officer-recommends-bowe-bergdahl-spared-jail-time-article-1.2392768

[NonMetro]

55. Was Donald At The Bar Again Before This Happened?

I told them to keep an eye on him. He downs a few beers and you never know what he'll say next!