Judge: Bergdahl to get fair sentence, despite Trump remarks
By: Jonathan Drew, The Associated Press 52 minutes ago
FORT BRAGG, N.C. — President Donald Trump’s scathing criticism of Army Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl will not prevent the soldier from receiving a fair sentence for endangering comrades by walking off his post in Afghanistan in 2009, a judge ruled Monday.
The judge, Army Col. Jeffery Nance, said the court has not been directly affected by Trump’s remarks. Then-Republican nominee Trump repeatedly called Bergdahl a traitor on the campaign trial and suggested that he be shot or thrown from a plane without a parachute. Trump revived those comments when Bergdahl pleaded guilty on Oct. 16 by saying at a news conference that he thinks people are aware of what he said before.
https://www.armytimes.com/news/your-army/2017/10/30/judge-bergdahl-to-get-fair-sentence-despite-trump-remarks/