Donald Trump
Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty
December 16, 2018
U.S. President Donald Trump says he will review the case of a former U.S. Army officer charged with murder for the 2010 killing of a man he suspected of being a Taliban bomb maker in Afghanistan.
“At the request of many. I will be reviewing the case of a ‘U.S. Military hero,’ Major Matt Golsteyn, who is charged with murder,” Trump wrote on Twitter on December 16.
“He could face the death penalty from our own government after he admitted to killing a Terrorist bomb maker while overseas,” the president added.
Trump’s tweet followed an interview that Golsteyn’s attorney and his wife gave to Fox News earlier in the day defending the soldier.
An Army spokesman on December 13 said Golsteyn, a former Green Beret major, had been charged with murder in the death of an Afghan man during his 2010 deployment to the war-torn country.
A commander will review the warrant and decide whether the Green Beret, who was a captain at the time of the incident, will face a hearing that could lead to a court-martial.
Trump and other military and administration leaders have in the past made remarks about military criminal cases, actions that have led to legal appeals contending interference in court proceedings.
Despite the lack of legal jurisdiction in a military case, a president does have wide authority to pardon criminal defendants.
Army Colonel Rob Manning, a Pentagon spokesman, said on December 16 that “the allegations against Major Matt Golsteyn are a law enforcement matter. The Department of Defense will respect the integrity of this process and provide updates when appropriate.”
An initial investigation in 2014 was closed without any charges. But the Army reopened the investigation in 2016 after Golsteyn allegedly described in an interview how he and another soldier led the detained man off base, shot him, and buried his remains.
Golsteyn was leading a team of Army Special Forces troops at the time of the killing. He said he believed the man was a bomb maker responsible for a blast that killed two U.S. Marines.
His attorney, Phillip Stackhouse, wrote in a tweet that Golsteyn is charged with “premeditated murder, a death-penalty offense for allegedly killing a Taliban bomb-maker during combat operations in Marjah, Afghanistan.”
Stackhouse, during an interview with Fox News, denied “a narrative… put out” by military authorities that said Golsteyn “released this Taliban bomb-maker, walked him back to the house…and assassinated him in his house.”
Golsteyn’s wife Julie, also on Fox, denied that her husband had “killed someone in cold blood” and said that “there are a lot of words flying around that make this very difficult for us as a family.”
She said he is scheduled to report to Fort Bragg in North Carolina on December 17.
With reporting by AP, AFP, Reuters, and The Army Times
Since this stupid soldier committed
extreme crime inside Afghanistan; for that, he must be prosecuted and locked for good- these types of rogue and coward characters take the law in their own hands forcefully and think that they could get away with impunity to kill the citizens
of
Afghanistan inside their own
God-give land.
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*JUST GET
OUT
OF
AFGHANISTAN- PERIOD.
Who says thatb the victim was a
bomb-maker.
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It could have been very well cultural- the soldier was probably acting too aggressive which the victim may have not like it; especially, in light of the fact that overwhelming majority of the people of Afghanistan detest invaders and look down on them.
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That means that the victim may had merely been reacting to the arrogance of the soldier by giving negative disrespectful response only.
*False response
on
an
arrogant confrontation !
How would you know anything, you Taliban coward Baghlani
Are you
drunk ?????
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What is the matter with you !
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It is all assumed- I did not say that those sceneries did, for sure, happaned.
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Any thing is possible; but, you have no right to shoot some one
cold blooded- and in their own country !
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*wise up !
The Albino man’s
days
are numbered
in
Afghanistan.