crimes president trump, in an unprecedented move, told the navy not to oust chief petty officer edward gallagher from the s.e.a.l.s. here is nbc s miguel almaguer reporter: the president intervening again to defend eddie gallagher, saying he will not let the navy strip him of his status as an s.e.a.l th president tweeting today, the navy will not be taking away war fighter and navy s.e.a.l. eddie gallagher s trident pin. this case was handled very badly from the beginning. gallagher s brother today. any time i see the president tweet or take action on our behalf, the gratitude that comes out can t really truly be expressed accurately we re just so thankful reporter: a u.s. aware of thewe after he was demoted, fo-covined trial and war crimes but found guilty of posing with a corpse of a teenaged isis fighter. he told me that he wanted to, uh, instill confidence back into
murder of a teenaged isis fighter. he was charged with posing with that corpse and on other occasions firing his rifle into crowds of civilians and on one particular occasion, hitting, shooting an old civilian man with a sminiper rifle. doing the same with a young girl. he was charged with obstruction of justice for trying to stop his fellow seals from turning him in and then retaliating against the ones who did. he was cleared of all of those charges a part from the charge of posing for a photograph with the corpse of that dead isis detainee. the defense said we can t argue that he didn t take that photo because you ve all seen the photo. that was really the major plank of the prosecution s case. they said chief eddie gallagher s own words are enough because he sent those trophy photos to friends with messages