{"id":92490,"date":"2019-11-07T11:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-11-07T15:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=92490"},"modified":"2019-11-07T09:28:58","modified_gmt":"2019-11-07T13:28:58","slug":"update-on-bergdahl-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=92490","title":{"rendered":"Update on Bergdahl (again)"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_85967\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-85967\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-85967\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/hunter-1503082__340-300x215.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"215\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/hunter-1503082__340-300x215.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/hunter-1503082__340-465x333.jpg 465w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/hunter-1503082__340.jpg 475w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-85967\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Girl and gun dog<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Bergdahl gets more attention re: \u201cundue command influence\u201d by candidate Trump and Sen. McCain. You do not want to know what I think he should get.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.militarytimes.com\/pay-benefits\/2019\/11\/06\/top-military-appeals-court-to-review-bergdahl-case-for-interference-by-trump-and-mccain\/\">https:\/\/www.militarytimes.com\/pay-benefits\/2019\/11\/06\/top-military-appeals-court-to-review-bergdahl-case-for-interference-by-trump-and-mccain\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>During the proceedings, while Trump was a presidential candidate, he called Bergdahl a &#8220;dirty rotten traitor&#8221; and suggested the soldier be executed by firing squad or thrown out of an airplane over Afghanistan without a parachute.<\/p>\n<p>After he became president, Trump made several references to those comments and McCain threatened hearings if Bergdahl received no punishment.<\/p>\n<p>As a result, Bergdahl&#8217;s defense team, led by veteran military defense attorney Eugene Fidell, appealed, saying the comments constituted unlawful command influence and were so pervasive, Bergdahl didn&#8217;t receive a fair trial or post-trial processing.<\/p>\n<p>But while the comments may have been improper, Army Court of Criminal Appeals judges said, the ruling in Bergdahl\u2019s case was \u201cfair and unprejudiced\u201d and should remain in place. &#8211; article<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bergdahl gets more attention re: \u201cundue command influence\u201d by candidate Trump and Sen. McCain. You do &hellip; <a title=\"Update on Bergdahl (again)\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=92490\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Update on Bergdahl (again)<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":653,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[220,359],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-92490","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the-floggings-will-continue-until-morale-improves","category-army"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92490","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/653"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=92490"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92490\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":92492,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92490\/revisions\/92492"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=92490"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=92490"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=92490"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}