J.D. Vance Calls Stuart Scheller a 'Political Prisoner' After He's Sent to Military Brig
By Xander Landen On 10/3/21 at 10:45 AM EDT
J.D. Vance, a U.S. Senate candidate from Ohio, called Stuart Scheller, a Marine who publicly criticized the U.S. evacuation from Afghanistan, a "political prisoner" after the lieutenant colonel was jailed in a military brig late last month.
Scheller was been put in pretrial confinement at Camp Lejeune in North Carolina. In a post on Linkedin, Scheller's father, Stu Scheller, wrote that his son was incarcerated on September 27, after he broke a gag order by posting on social media.
Speaking on Fox News on Saturday, Vance, a Republican, said he thinks it's "it's ridiculous and a sad commentary on this country" that "the people who presided over the disaster in Afghanistan" including President Joe Biden, General Mark Milley and U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin, "face no consequences, and a guy who's telling the truth about it is getting thrown in the brig."
https://www.newsweek.com/jd-vance-calls-stuart-scheller-political-prisoner-after-hes-sent-military-brig-1635080?piano_t=1
