Could a Trump tweet ‘accidentally’ pardon Bowe Bergdahl?

Published January 30, 2017 5:01am ET



There’s little doubt about how President Trump feels about Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl, the U.S. soldier who walked off his post in Afghanistan in 2009, and got himself captured by the Taliban, and sparked a months-long military manhunt.

“A dirty rotten traitor,” is how Trump described Bergdahl, not once, but at least 65 times, according to a motion to dismiss all charges against him, filed by his attorney on Jan. 20, Inauguration Day.

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