He got away with crimes.

that sums it up rather eloquently.

Scum.

to a position like on the Joint Chiefs of Staff since he loves to put criminals in high positions.

despots love war criminals ohiogal

And all he has to do is write a book about murdering unarmed brown children and women overseas.

Look for another American Sniper blockbuster.

White House Chief of Staff, he’ll walk around the WH twirling his knife.

murder again. According to interviews and testimony he got a adrenalin rush over the murders he committed. He's going to need his fix. Hey, he got away with it once, he will do it again.

Since he got away with murder, at least once, I’m certain you are correct.

Asshole 45 is now his good bud.

What's gonna stop him now?

If he has any kind of TV or radio personality he's probably set for life. The right-wing will reward him they way the rewarded Oliver North.

If the testimony of his former troops keeps coming out, he may be a little to hot to handle for a while. Over time though, he won't be. There is also the frighteningly large number of people who will hear the testimony and think he did nothing wrong. Nothing wrong with shooting innocent civilians - because they're brown Muslims. They believe brown people, especially Muslims, are the enemy. So killing the civilians in order to wipe them all out is a-okay with a large segment of the Trump Cult.

I grew up around people like this in the South. They didn't think of minorities as humans. They thought nothing more of them being killed than they thought of stomping an ant or ant hill. I'm not joking. I'm completely serious. Killing an unarmed female would be okay to them. Because that means she's no longer available to have more children - make more of their enemy.

Trump gets a bounce, he gives a bounce. He’s Trump’s idea of a soldier, from war movies.

I have a feeling he’ll get what he deserves.

There is no Honor in Murder, even in war. Other team members don't want this guy around.

What did we honestly expect to happen?

The man is most likely a murderer and war criminal, but what our nation put these men through is unconscionable. There should be a cap on the number of tours a soldier should be allowed to participate in, or stuff like this will be more and more common. I suspect it is fairly common already for soldiers / sailors / marines with high numbers of combat tours, we just do not hear about it.

Even in this case, one of the primary witnesses against him before the trial, later confessed on the witness stand to killing the prisoner himself and allowing Gallagher to walk. He essentially got Gallagher a 'not guilty' verdict on his murder charge, and got him out of jail. Trump's pardon just wiped his record clean after the fact, as Gallagher was already a free man on the street when all this stuff happened.