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Trump Calls Bergdahl Decision 'Disgrace' on Twitter

by Reuters

   WASHINGTON --

   U.S. President Donald Trump condemned a military judge's order on
   Friday to spare Army Sergeant Bowe Bergdahl from prison after he
   pleaded guilty todeserting his post in Afghanistan in 2009.

   "The decision on Sergeant Bergdahl is a complete and total disgrace to
   our Country and to our Military," Trump wrote in a post on Twitter.

   The judge also ordered Bergdahl, who was captured by the Taliban, to be
   dishonorably discharged and recommended that he be demoted.