Former Navy SEAL Robert O’Neill has criticized former Vice President Joe Biden after he claimed that President Trump was “not fit to command” U.S. troops.
The criticism comes after the president pardoned three U.S. military personnel who were accused of war crimes, including killing a suspected Taliban bomb-maker, taking photographs of an ISIS terrorist’s corpse, and killing two civilians.
In announcing the pardons, the president said, “When our soldiers have to fight for our country, I want to give them the confidence to fight.”
“I still had my body armor on when you turned my life around. How dare you…”
Karen Vaughn, whose son belonged to SEAL Team Six, told the Examiner: “They put a target on my son’s back and even on my back. But a little over 90 days later, my son was dead.”
“There are no words to adequately express how grateful my family and I are to our president, Donald J. Trump, for his intervention and decision,” Gallagher said on Nov. 15. “We would also like to thank the American people for their unwavering support during this very difficult time for my family and I—we can never thank you enough.”
“I truly believe that we are blessed as a nation to have a commander in chief that stands up for our war fighters, and cares about how they and their families are treated,” he said.
In reference Army Major Mathew Golsteyn whose case was under review on Oct. 12, Trump said: “Mathew is a highly decorated Green Beret who is being tried for killing a Taliban bomb-maker. We train our boys to be killing machines, then prosecute them when they kill!”