Trump on Wednesday praised Navy SEAL Edward Gallagher, who was acquitted of murder but found guilty of posing with the body of a dead prisoner.
President Trump on Wednesday praised a Navy SEAL who was acquitted of committing war crimes in the killing of a wounded ISIS captive in Mosul, Iraq.
A jury of seven soldiers found Special Operations Chief Edward Gallagher not guilty on Tuesday of charges that included killing unarmed civilians. Gallagher was found guilty of wrongfully posing with the corpse of the 12-year-old ISIS fighter, a charge that carries a maximum prison sentence of four months.
“They tried to frame me as a criminal from the get-go but we knew the truth the whole time,” Gallagher told Fox News. “We knew I was innocent of these charges the whole time and I overcame it by having my strong wife with me the whole time.” Trump demanded in March that Gallagher be set free from a military brig and placed in confinement at a Navy base. The judge presiding over the case released Gallagher from custody altogether in May.
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