NYT: Obama should pardon Bergdahl because “Trump!”
August last year, Donald Trump, while on the campaign trail, told the audience that Bowe Bergdahl, the private that walked off his post in Afghanistan into the waiting arms of the Haqqani network of terrorists, should be executed.
According to the New York Times editorial board, Bergdahl’s lawyer will claim that Trump’s remarks are undue command influence on the jury when the new president takes office.
And, so, in order to preclude a drawn out trial, Obama should take action now;
Mr. Obama could issue a pardon before he leaves office. That would put to rest a prosecution that was questionable from the outset because Sergeant Bergdahl had pre-existing mental health problems when the Army granted him a waiver to enlist. He emerged from captivity deeply traumatized after five years of being subjected to physical and psychological torture. It is time to let him rebuild his life.
Unfortunately, the soldiers who were killed or wounded during the search for Special Snowflake Bergdahl don’t have much of an opportunity to rebuild their lives. What Bergdahl did was criminal and he deserves punishment. If a jury decides that he should be executed, I’m down with that.
A pardon, at this point, would not positively influence the good order and discipline in the military, but the New York Times editorial board would know, or wouldn’t particularly care about that, so they should just issue an apology for their ignorance and then sit down and shut up.
Category: Politics
Are the idiots who run the NYT TRYING their damnedest to make themselves as idiotic and irrelevant as they can, or does it come to them naturally?
FUCK the NYT.
FUCK Bergdahl.
Once in a while, but very seldom, they get something almost right. Not this time.
They get something right what, maybe .1% of the time? they’ve been little more than the DNC’s Pravda for at least the past few decades, I wouldn’t even want to use the NYT for ass paper. I find it humorous that their subscription numbers are still in the sewer!
I think the ratio of acorns found per blind pigs is better than the ratio of correct stories to NYT stories.
As a former NCO, it still makes me sick to my fucking stomach to see that traitor respectfully addressed as “Sgt. Bergdahl” in the media. That sonofabitch is no NCO.
Ditto that, he basically got his rank handed to him in absentia, didn’t he? FUCK HIM and his stank ass fleabag hippie ilk.
Bergdahl is just as pathologically stupid as Slovik. Why should he be treated any differently?
Word is that Bergdahl is actually fairly smart. As a result he seems to think he’s “better” than virtually everyone else, and acts accordingly (arrogant and conceited).
In reality, he’s sharp – but not that sharp. He thus has no good reason to be conceited.
Sound familiar? (smile)
Trump made the comment when he was a civilian, with no certain knowledge that he’d become Commander in Chief. I guess the NYT thinks that any candidate should just keep quiet. Unless they’re the “progressive” candidate.
True, but by that point he was one of the two major party candidates, and as such, needs to temper his remarks.
Sometimes Trump opens his mouth just long enough to change feet.
See his comments this morning regarding flag burning as another example.
I liked Johnny Cash’s better, when he said that real Americans have the right to burn the flag – but that we also have the 2nd Amendment “and if you burn my flag I will shoot you – with love in my heart as a good American.”
Actually, I think he was ragging on the libs by saying exactly what Hillary said about flag burning. She even signed on as a co-sponsor for a bill banning flag burning.
“It is time to let him rebuild his life.” Sure, just as soon as the six soldiers who died looking for him get a chance to rebuild their lives.
Executing him isn’t punishment. He gets off scot-free, in my view.
Solitary confinement for life, no outside contact, period, just a cell and a Holy Roller Bible and a canned ham with no key as a gift from the Mormons.
You do know the old saying that one man’s heaven is another man’s Hell, right?
Find out what he detests the most and add that to his solitary life.
Maybe give him daily visits from Jehovah’s Witnesses?
And a nice plastic file box where he can keep the pamphlets indexed by topic…
Wait….what?!?! Where did that come from?!?!
What in the name of Joseph Smith do the Mormons have to do with canned hams with no opening key?
Dear NYT:
Kindly eat a bag of dicks.
Best regards.
Can I get a AAAAA-MEN from the members of that Church of TAH for Brother Hayabusa’s thoughtful sermon on the subject at hand?
Preach it, Pastor Hayabusa! Aaa-men!
Kindly was a nice touch, by the way.
AMEN!
I think a lot of the NYT male writers , would love a bag of dics and the lady writers , a canyon yodeling contest
Again as I’ve said before……
but this time with a twist…
Scaphism
On the White House Lawn.
Pay Per View
24/7 Live
Until he’s mostly eaten.
Shortly after the inauguration.
Ah Springtime in D.C.
I had to look it up… Nasty, vile, horrible way to treat a person!
I approve of the use on a maggot like him, tho. Fuck that guy.
Would someone please explain to me how Odumbo can issue a pardon to someone who has not been convicted of anything yet??? I would enjoy nothing more than to see this cocksucker buried head deep in a fire ant pile and leave him there for a month or so? Maybe drip some nice honey on his head as well, then pry his eyelids open with toothpicks to make sure he can’t blink to keep the ants from stinging his eyeballs and then start to eat them! Oh please President Trump, make this bastard suffer long and hard!!!
Looks like we need a standing citation to this issue, which has been addressed multiple times over the past few weeks hereo. The bottom line, Wilted, is that a president can pardon anyone convicted of a federal crime and he can pardon anyone who may have committed a crime but has not been convicted. What a president may not do is pardon someone for a crime that the someone may commit in the future.
I hate to waste an o that way. I just know I’ll be short one one day and wish I had it back.
I rather liked the Hibernian lilt it lent to an otherwise drab topic, Cav.
Cheerio…
I ordered you a new keyboard 2/17 Air Cav.
Think there is also some phrasing that he cannot pardon someone of an impeachment-level offense? Believe Hondo mentioned that one day
Not exactly. The Constitution says that the POTUS cannot issue a pardon that counteracts an impeachment conviction. However, an impeachment conviction can at most remove an individual from Federal office and ban them from holding any Federal office in the future; it imposes no Federal criminal penalty.
Impeachment (and subsequent removal from office) also doesn’t prevent someone from being later tried for criminal offenses exposed during his/her impeachment trial. If I recall correctly, Federal judge Altee Hastings was indeed impeached, convicted, and removed from office. (He was not banned from holding Federal office in the future, however.) After being removed from office, he was tried in criminal court but was acquitted. Some time later, he was elected to the House of Representatives.
As far as I know, the POTUS could pardon an individual for crimes associated with the conduct that got them impeached and removed from office. Ford did something similar with Nixon. The only difference is that Nixon resigned before he could be impeached and removed from office.
and in other news. Obama pardoned a guy serving a life sentence for his third felony drug dealing offense… says the penalty was since it was y’know, drugs, and a black man, and blacks got punished ‘way too hard for breaking the existing law. If Bergdahl had only been a crack-smoking black man instead of a cock-sucking white man, who knows how fast he could get out?
I’m so glad Obama can show me the error of my ways, I was always under the impression that creating crime laws and sentencing came under the purview of Congress,not the Executive Branch… silly me. (and yes, that was sarcasm)
That sounds really stupid!! Just saying.
Heck, I’m surprised they haven’t dismissed all charges and medically retired him. //sarc
“Pre-existing mental health problem”.
I have one of those, too. But if I were to commit a crime, that would be NO EXCUSE for my bad behavior.
When we talk about re-forming the mental health system, we don’t mean that every nut job out there who commits a crime should be handled with care, and forgiven for their actions.
This ass monkey knew what he was doing from the first step he took off of his post.
“Pre-existing mental health problem”.
Every single Vet here had or has this…..
We were stupid enough to enlist….. (Right about the 1:00 mark)
Whatever deal they give Bergdahl, it will be to buy his silence.
I believe he was kept in tight control and not allowed to give interviews so he wouldn’t embarrass the current administration. He can wander the base, go to the food court, play video games, but DON’T do interviews or get into trouble.
When he wandered off the reservation and ended up on a California pot farm, well, he was counseled again on his ‘deal’ – that they won’t rush ahead with the court martial during the present administration *IF* you play ball and STFU.
You’d think the media would be falling over themselves to get an interview so there must be something in place to keep him from talking. He’s probably a loonie-tunie and speaks worse than his hippie father.
Undue command influence might be that love-in obongo had with Pa and Ma Berdahl in the rose garden…quite a statement of support….and, of course, the Taliban prisoner exchange for him…hard to imagine that would have occurred for what the White House should have considered a possible even probable deserter…perhaps no wonder that the investigating GO recommended giving the lad a break…
Put Berghdahl and Manning in glass-fronted cells, side by side. Every new Soldier in BCT will be required to view them as part of their training. Two examples of what not to do.
The two of them need to fall in love and soon.
Lars would be ecstatic to have a circle jerk with those two.
The only thing that surprises me anymore is that it’s taken this long to go nowhere.
Nice one. Made my head hurt.
I’d like to pose a sincere question. If a pardon were issued in advance, thereby precluding a court-martial, how does that affect discharge options?
Now THAT is a good damn question. Don’t think that’s ever happened before (at least not since World War II), so there’s probably no good historical precedent.
One of our military lawyers
would have to give an answer on that one.
if the NYT’s is so concerned that the Military allowed the POS in with a pre-existing mental health issue; I am sure they are completely against allowing Transgenders to serve in the US Military. I mean given that it is itself a mental disorder, and it is accompanied by a slew of other mental health disorders/issues that should preclude enlistment.
The Left is so damned hypocritical about this shit. Excuse bad behavior by saying it is the Army’s fault for allowing him to serve, while lecturing about how the Army should enlist those with a multitude of mental health issues.
You can read his sanity board results at the “Bergdahl Docket” website. The only “pre-existing” mental health disorder he had was a personality disorder. Schizoid Personality Disorder…basically, has trouble forming relationships with others…not something that makes you hallucinate your way off base.
Life at hard labor, working on Army bases. For the rest of his days to feel the scorn of those he betrayed.
No friends, barred from speaking to anyone, watching life pass by, seeing a young private progress through a career to retirement while his world never moves past scrubbing latrines.
P…L….O…!!!!!
sorry, couldn’t resist.