Third Appeal for Bergdahl Filed

Bowe’s lawyers are at it again, filing yet another appeal to the United States Court of Appeals for the Armed Forces on the issue of President Trump’s undue command influence. The previous appeals were denied by lower courts because his remarks were made as a private citizen.

“Attorneys for accused Army deserter Bowe Bergdahl took their third shot Thursday at getting his case tossed, once again arguing that President Trump blew their client’s chance of a fair trial when he called the sergeant and former Taliban captive “a dirty, rotten traitor.”

In a 50-page appeal to the United States Court of Appeals for the Armed Forces, Bergdahl’s legal team argued that the “unprecedented circumstances” of then-candidate Trump calling Bergdahl a traitor and suggesting he should be executed create an “unlawful command influence.”

The term refers to a military legal concept in which someone in authority attempts to influence military judicial proceedings.”

Seems to me they’re grasping at straws, and this is the only argument the lawyers can make. Because Trump, “by not repudiating his earlier statements, President Trump brought them with him”  And “They cannot be scrubbed from the record as if he had simply put on a clean shirt for the Inauguration,” Bergdahl’s team wrote.

Pretty weak. Perhaps if Bowe had not deserted his post and sought out the enemy during a time of conflict, endangering his fellow troops, none of this would be occurring. My personal feelings aside, Bowe is most likely to receive a Dishonorable Discharge, reduction in to rate to E-1, and do some hard time. Despite the efforts of his lawyers.

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