{"id":104309,"date":"2020-08-28T14:42:00","date_gmt":"2020-08-28T18:42:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=104309"},"modified":"2020-08-28T15:03:13","modified_gmt":"2020-08-28T19:03:13","slug":"bergdahl-loses-appeal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=104309","title":{"rendered":"Bergdahl Loses Appeal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/bowe-berghdahl-flag.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-104310\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/bowe-berghdahl-flag.jpg?resize=325%2C333&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"325\" height=\"333\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/bowe-berghdahl-flag.jpg?resize=325%2C333&amp;ssl=1 325w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/bowe-berghdahl-flag.jpg?resize=293%2C300&amp;ssl=1 293w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/bowe-berghdahl-flag.jpg?w=419&amp;ssl=1 419w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 325px) 100vw, 325px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Bowe Berghahl&#8217;s appeal to a top military court has been denied.\u00a0 Him and his lawyers were claiming that President Trump biased the case by tweeting that Bergdahl was a traitor.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"headline\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/us\/top-military-appeals-court-rejects-bowe-bergdahls-claim-trump-prevented-him-from-getting-fair-trial\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>Top military appeals court rejects Bowe Bergdahl&#8217;s claim Trump prevented him from getting fair trial<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"speakable\">The U.S. military&#8217;s top appellate court on Friday rejected a legal challenge made by former Army Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl over his court-martial conviction\u00a0for deserting his post in Afghanistan.<\/p>\n<p class=\"speakable\">Bergdahl&#8217;s lawyers argued that repeated comments made by President Trump\u00a0&#8212; both\u00a0while he was a presidential candidate in 2016 and then later as commander in chief, when\u00a0he repeatedly ridiculed Bergdahl &#8212; prevented the ex-soldier from receiving a fair trial.<\/p>\n<p>Trump has referred to Bergdahl as a &#8220;traitor&#8221; and even suggested he be shot or thrown from a plane without a parachute.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The military appeals court ruled that in spite of President Trump&#8217;s tweets, they felt that Bergdahl received a fair trial.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bowe Berghahl&#8217;s appeal to a top military court has been denied.\u00a0 Him and his lawyers were claiming that President Trump biased the case by tweeting that Bergdahl was a traitor. Top military appeals court rejects Bowe Bergdahl&#8217;s claim Trump prevented him from getting fair trial The U.S. military&#8217;s top appellate court on Friday rejected a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":663,"featured_media":104310,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[478],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-104309","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-none"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/bowe-berghdahl-flag.jpg?fit=419%2C429&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4ozh1-r8p","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104309","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/663"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=104309"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104309\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/104310"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=104309"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=104309"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=104309"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}