During his presidential campaign in 2016, Donald Trump referred to Bowe Bergdahl as a “dirty rotten traitor” who deserved to be executed, which says a lot coming from a dirty rotten traitor who made up physical ailments about his “bad foots” to keep from serving in the military, and who would never have allowed one of his own children to serve in any of the wars he supported then or now.

However, the alt-far right, as usual, took a very dim and almost livid view of President Barack Obama’s decision to release five accused prisoners and alleged terrorists (i.e., REAL WORLD “untried detainees”) from Guantanamo in order to secure the release of Bergdahl.

A much-circulated quote from Judge Andrew Napolitano (a FOX News Senior Judicial Analyst) posited that President Obama provided material assistance to the Taliban by engaging in the prisoner exchange and thus committed a crime punishable by imprisonment of 10 years to life, though it was unlikely that those criminal charges would have been brought against the President of the United States, much less successfully prosecuted.

Last December, Bergdahl requested a pardon from President Obama for abandoning his post in Afghanistan in 2009, or going A.

W.O.L., sparking a manhunt that would eventually lead to his trial and being dishonorably discharged from the military. Of course, he didn’t get prison time, just a small fine and the not so good discharge for abandonment.

His excuse? He walked away to get the attention of military higher-ups to some misconduct that he saw happening in his own unit. He had no reason to believe that one missing private would spark such international attention.

This was Donald John 2014:

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President Obama, on the other hand, stated that he owed no apologies for his decision to make the trade. Well … Kinda d’uh.

Fast forward.

What has Trump to say now that another December is coming and he has been sitting in President Obama’s chair since January of 2017?

For someone who has been royally inconsistent for the past 10 months, we’re going to assume -for the sake of our own sanity- that Trump thinks he knows something about the Constitution and/or about the law when it comes to military charges of high crimes and misdemeanors, as President Obama was REQUIRED to know BEFORE he could be elected to such a high office:

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All we can say now is that Trump has been staunchly consistent with his opposition to anything that had to do with President Obama. Without Obama’s name attached to Bergdahl’s, it’s not hard to surmise that His Royal Precedent would have taken the higher road and bowed to the will of those who know more about the proper way to handle their own than Trump ever will.

It’s kind of a bit more embarrassing that a severe supreme national disgrace of an excuse for President would even bother to speak to the dishonorable discharge of someone who at least didn’t use an alleged unproven physical ailment to get out of serving at all.

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Apples comped to apples, I’d bet on Bergdahl’s patriotism over Trump’s any time of the day.

And no, Trump, military school is no more the REAL world of serving in the military than being in college classes counts as having a real job.

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Here’s the test of Trump’s TRUE mettle on his declaration of “traitor” for Bergdahl…

what will he do with the racist “Birther Terry Lakin” who refused orders to deploy over President Obama’s birth certificate, which he had already shown the entire world more times than he needed to?

Trump’s impending pardon of Lakin will say all it needs to, IF he even bothers to go there. If one deserter is a traitor, certainly the other deserter is.

Or is it the litmus test of President Obama’s direct and indirect involvement in both cases that will make the difference for Trump?

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REFERENCE

‘Birther’ [Terry Lakin] Dismissed from Army for Refusing Deployment, Sentenced to Six Months in Prison