He was convicted of murder, then pardoned by Trump. His troops suffered a different fate.

[douglas9]

Only a few hours had passed since President Trump pardoned 1st Lt. Clint Lorance and the men of 1st Platoon were still trying to make sense of how it was even possible.

How could a man they blamed for ruining their lives, an officer the Army convicted of second-degree murder and other charges, be forgiven so easily? How could their president allow him to just walk free?

“I feel like I’m in a nightmare,” Lucas Gray, a former specialist from the unit, texted his old squad leader, who was out of the Army and living in Fayetteville, N.C.

“I haven’t been handling it well either,” replied Mike McGuinness on Nov. 15, the day Lorance was pardoned.

“There’s literally no point in anything we did or said,” Gray continued. “Now he gets to be the hero .?.?.”

“And we’re left to deal with it,” McGuinness concluded.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/2020/national/clint-lorance-platoon-afghanistan/

[aquamarina]

1. Heartbreaking article.

Trump, who knows nothing about the military having passed up his opportunity to serve, takes military advice from Hannity, another non military person, to pardon a murderer to score political points from his racist base. Just another day in Trumpland.

[not fooled]

5. And, as we learned this week from Mary Trump's book

threatened to disinherit red don jr. if he enlisted in the military.

[Wounded Bear]

2. Pretty bad when our guys are getting PTSD from their own CiC...

[IronLionZion]

3. That was difficult to read

a lot of people failed these men.

[iscooterliberally]

4. wow so there's this and that Navy Seal too. Trump is truly evil. n/t