
Not so good for him, his best chance was under Obama.
Via Injo:
Army Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl, the soldier who walked off from his post in Afghanistan in 2009 and was held captive by the Taliban for five years, just got what they consider some bad news.
Judge Jeffrey Nance announced Tuesday at the Ft. Bragg Army base in North Carolina that Bergdahl’s court martial will be delayed to February 6, 2017.
Bergdahl’s trial was originally scheduled for August, but was pushed into next year to give his defense team access to classified documents, the Associated Press reported. Bergdahl is facing charges of desertion and misbehavior before the enemy.
This means the Army sergeant, who was returned to the United States by President Obama in May 2014 in exchange for five senior Taliban commanders who were previously held at Guantanamo Bay, could be charged under the next president.
As far as how that president may treat Bergdahl, it’s a mixed bag. But one thing is fairly clear, a presidential pardon is almost unthinkable.
Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump called Bergdahl a “dirty, rotten traitor” who “should have been executed” on the campaign trail last August:
