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Trump freed a Navy Seal murderer. (Original Post) pwb Jun 2020 OP
He pardoned Igel Jun 2020 #1
I am comfortable calling him a murderer pardoned. pwb Jun 2020 #2

Igel

(35,196 posts)
1. He pardoned
Tue Jun 2, 2020, 10:35 AM
Jun 2020

a Navy Seal convicted of posing with a corpse.

He was acquitted of murder.

Saying he "freed the Navy Seal murderer" would have as its preferred antonym "detaining a Navy Seal murderer"--but he would have had Constitutional issues. Can't just declare somebody a murderer and then lock him up in lieu of or especially in spite of a trial.

At least not in non-Jim-Crow America.

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