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GoCubsGo

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17. Because of Fox News and Guilliani, of course. Seriously.

Reply to bobGandolf (Original post)

Fri Nov 29, 2019, 08:54 AM

Nov 2019

Perhaps it’s because Gallagher’s legal team includes two Trump friends who are also former partners of his personal lawyer Rudolph W. Giuliani: investigator Bernard Kerik, who is a former New York police commissioner and also a convicted felon; and Marc Mukasey, who represents Trump in a New York bank-records case. Another Gallagher advocate has been Fox News commentator Pete Hegseth, who reportedly has been represented by Tim Parlatore, Gallagher’s lead lawyer.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/insurgents-lobbied-trump-for-war-crimes-pardons-with-little-pentagon-involvement-officials-say/2019/11/21/b6a0c62e-0c75-11ea-bd9d-c628fd48b3a0_story.html

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/trump-is-sabotaging-his-military/2019/11/21/6b46199e-0cad-11ea-97ac-a7ccc8dd1ebc_story.html

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Why is Trump meddling with the jailed Special Forces? [View all] bobGandolf Nov 2019 OP

Oliver North and the NRA? Deb Nov 2019 #1

Must be one of 2naSalit Nov 2019 #2

Everything he does is quid pro quo. Claritie Pixie Nov 2019 #3

Nice to know.. bobGandolf Nov 2019 #11

... favor of (dirty, criminal) soldiers who might lash out on his behalf. NightWatcher Nov 2019 #4

why? He sees this a way to poke democrats/liberals and it did BUT the sideeffect is pissing the beachbumbob Nov 2019 #5

Pay attention to the dates JHB Nov 2019 #6

He is married to one of my former students. Freedomofspeech Nov 2019 #7

On MJ this morning they said that the Navy is proceeding Ilsa Nov 2019 #8

I thought.. bobGandolf Nov 2019 #12

He's meddling with the UCMJ and undermining military law... cynatnite Nov 2019 #9

He's always playing to his Deplorables, in this case their Rambo fantasies UTUSN Nov 2019 #10

Trump has to feed the jingoists in his base every once in while-He might need them for his civil war NCLefty Nov 2019 #13

Just the sort of thing bush/cheney would have done pecosbob Nov 2019 #14

He identifies with the special operations troops. JustABozoOnThisBus Nov 2019 #15

Bah, haha... bobGandolf Nov 2019 #16

Because of Fox News and Guilliani, of course. Seriously. GoCubsGo Nov 2019 #17

Ruth Ben-Ghiat nails the reasoning, I think NewJeffCT Nov 2019 #18

TrumPutin already knows these criminals will do anything. Now he owns them. Hermit-The-Prog Nov 2019 #19