JUST the Stolen Documents/Mar-A-Lago/"Judge" Cannon Trial

[old salt]

Lessons learned from Benghazi being applied in Baghdad :

https://www.marinecorpstimes.com/news/y ... er-attack/

https://www.marinecorpstimes.com/news/y ... nary-unit/

https://www.militarytimes.com/flashpoin ... ons-mount/

[Trinity]

“The retired Navy SEAL Edward Gallagher has a his new apparel line called Salty Frog Gear, which is a described as a “coastal lifestyle brand with an edge.”

Not The Onion.

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/12/31/us/n ... trump.html

[seacoaster]

“The retired Navy SEAL Edward Gallagher has a his new apparel line called Salty Frog Gear, which is a described as a “coastal lifestyle brand with an edge.”

Not The Onion.

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/12/31/us/n ... trump.html

"Chief Gallagher and his wife have also set up an online shop selling T-shirts that mock the Navy and the SEALs who testified against him in court, calling them 'mean girls.'"

Nice.

[Typical Lax Dad]

“The retired Navy SEAL Edward Gallagher has a his new apparel line called Salty Frog Gear, which is a described as a “coastal lifestyle brand with an edge.”

Not The Onion.

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/12/31/us/n ... trump.html

"Chief Gallagher and his wife have also set up an online shop selling T-shirts that mock the Navy and the SEALs who testified against him in court, calling them 'mean girls.'"

Nice.

Mike Flynn 2.0

[CU88]

Gallagher is gonna campaign for Trump. What’s their message there? It’s okay to hunt women and children?

Their message is the persecution complex. The message is that their singular "American" values are under attack by liberals (and cowards) as evidence by the trials and impeachment, and that they're innocent as evidence by Trump's pardon. The best offense is a good defense. The best defense is saying you're under attack and rallying the vote.

It's scary stuff when you get into the weeds.

+1

Soon anyone who doesn't agree with them will find the brown shirts knocking down their doors, in the middle of the night. Many posters on this board spout this hate and don't even see it in themselves. Deplorable Sheep.

[DMac]

For those who might not be able to see the NYT article.

From the Brig to Mar-a-Lago, Former Navy SEAL Capitalizes on Newfound Fame
After receiving presidential clemency, Edward Gallagher has left the SEALs to become a pitchman and conservative activist.


Since being acquitted this summer, Navy SEAL Chief Petty Officer Edward Gallagher has been occupied with a variety of projects, including modeling his own clothing brand, Salty Frog Gear.
Since being acquitted this summer, Navy SEAL Chief Petty Officer Edward Gallagher has been occupied with a variety of projects, including modeling his own clothing brand, Salty Frog Gear.
Dave Philipps
By Dave Philipps
Dec. 31, 2019

A year ago, Navy SEAL Chief Petty Officer Edward Gallagher was wearing drab prison scrubs at a brig near San Diego, facing murder charges that could have sent him to prison for the rest of his life. Now he is modeling his own lifestyle clothing brand, endorsing nutrition supplements and positioning himself as a conservative influencer with close ties to the man who helped clear him — President Trump.

Chief Gallagher was acquitted this summer of charges that he shot at civilians and killed a wounded captive with a knife while serving as a platoon leader in Iraq. The punishment for his lone conviction — posing for a grisly trophy photo with the dead captive’s body — was reversed this fall by President Trump, who has repeatedly praised him. At a political rally in Florida, he called him “one of the ultimate fighters.”

Anguish and Anger From the Navy SEALs Who Turned In Edward GallagherDec. 27, 2019

Now, Chief Gallagher is using his controversial past as a springboard to social media followers and branding opportunities. Beyond repping coffee beans and protein shakes, he is making appearances at influential conservative gatherings and rubbing elbows with Mr. Trump’s inner circle at Mar-a-Lago.

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Paul Rieckhoff, the founder of Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America, who has openly criticized Chief Gallagher, said that the square-jawed, blue-eyed SEAL has been a valuable political weapon for the Trump administration.

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“Trump is a master of casting, and Gallagher is a perfect fit,” said Mr. Rieckhoff, who now hosts the Angry Americans podcast. “He’s handsome, he’s heroic, he’s got a beautiful wife. He’s a Rambo version of the same story Trump has been telling over and over: The deep state is trying to screw you, the media is bad, and the rich people don’t understand you. But I’ll stick up for you.”

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The partnership is valuable for Chief Gallagher, too, Mr. Rieckhoff said, because in raising his profile in conservative circles, he can cash in on book deals, speaking engagements and other business opportunities.

Chief Gallagher has appeared regularly on Fox News and other outlets, but declined through his lawyer to speak with The New York Times about his current projects. In an email, his lawyer, Timothy Parlatore, said: “Chief Gallagher is happy to respond to inquiries by legitimate journalists looking to publish factual pieces, but has no time for propagandists who put out knowingly false statements masquerading as fact.”

On Instagram, the chief and his wife have been outspoken, touting both the president and the various consumer products they are backing. (Their Instagram account has twice blocked a New York Times correspondent who has covered his case over the past year.)

“Brotherhood isn’t just a statement, it’s a way of life,” Chief Gallagher said in a statement explaining his apparel line, called Salty Frog Gear. Described as a “coastal lifestyle brand with an edge,” it features T-shirts that read “stay salty,” and hooded sweatshirts, with a custom front pocket designed to hold a beer bottle.

Following the lead of many micro influencers, Chief Gallagher’s Instagram account has also endorsed veteran-owned coffee beans and muscle-building supplements with macabre names like Double Tap and Total War. Like a sponsored athlete of the world’s most dangerous sport, he regularly shows off the logos and clothing of a number of right-wing veterans’ groups that push a distinct brand of patriotism, including an apparel brand run by the SEAL veteran who made the knife Chief Gallagher was accused of using to kill a captive. Along with all sorts of items emblazoned with the logo “KILL BAD DUDES,” the site sells a “Waterboarding Instructor” shirt.


Chief Gallagher and his wife have also set up an online shop selling T-shirts that mock the Navy and the SEALs who testified against him in court, calling them “mean girls.”

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Chief Gallagher’s lawyer said the SEAL was writing a book about his career, but declined to provide details about whether he had signed a publishing deal or with whom.

To be sure, Chief Gallagher is hardly the first Navy SEAL to market his past. So many SEALs have published war stories and booked public speaking gigs in recent years that the satirical news site, The Onion, published an article announcing “Navy Forms Elite New SEAL Team to Write Best-Selling Tell-All Books.”

But Chief Gallagher is the first to do it in the wake of a war crime court-martial, and the only one who has sought to tie his public persona so closely to a political party and a divisive commander in chief.

Chief Gallagher, 40, sometimes went by the nickname Blade during his 20 years in the Navy. He served eight combat deployments and was awarded repeated medals for valor under fire.

But he also ran into trouble over the years. He was investigated for shooting a small girl while targeting a suspected Taliban member in Afghanistan in 2010, and was arrested and accused of assaulting a Navy police officer in 2014. In both cases, no criminal charges were filed.

Despite his past, Chief Gallagher was respected in the SEAL teams as an aggressive operator. But when he was assigned to lead his first platoon in combat in 2017 in Mosul, Iraq, SEALs who served under him said he became fixated on getting in firefights, made bizarre and dangerous tactical decisions, seemed to not know how to do his job and killed people with little regard to the rules of engagement.

In video interviews with investigators, multiple SEALs broke down in tears, describing their leader as “evil” and “toxic.”

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Sometimes he would go on solo “gun runs,” they said, emptying loads of heavy machine gun fire into neighborhoods with no apparent targets.

“I think he just wants to kill anybody he can,” Corey Scott, a medic from the platoon, told Navy investigators.

Several members of the platoon eventually turned him in for murder.

Chief Gallagher has always denied charges of misconduct, saying he was accused by poor performers who could not meet his high standards. In a video posted on Instagram, he said the government “threw me in prison for doing my job.”

Nine Line Apparel, the clothing company he partnered with to make Salty Frog Gear, defended its collaboration.

“As someone who served with Eddie and other members of SEAL team 7 downrange, I know the truth about the character of a man unjustly targeted by a broken investigation and corrupt prosecution,” the company’s founder, Tyler Merritt, said in a statement. “Nike has their First Amendment right to make individuals such as Colin Kaepernick their brand ambassadors. We have the right to make patriots like Chief Gallagher one of ours.”

Nine Line’s promotional photos and videos for the new clothing line show Chief Gallagher shooting an AR-15 assault rifle. In closed online forums, several of the SEALs from his old platoon whom he had accused of not being able to meet his high standards noted derisively that the holographic sight on his rifle had been put on backward.

Mr. Trump has signaled he has few misgivings in associating with Chief Gallagher. He said he would like to have Chief Gallagher and other service members accused or convicted of war crimes campaign for him, and perhaps even appear at the Republican convention in 2020, according to The Daily Beast.

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Earlier this month Chief Gallagher attended the conservative youth organization Turning Point USA’s Student Action Summit with his wife, Andrea, where he met with Donald Trump Jr. A short time later, he was at Mar-a-Lago with Mr. Trump.

A few days after that, Chief Gallagher posted a photo of himself giving the thumbs up, wearing a KILL BAD DUDES muscle shirt, while holding a mug that reads, “I love when I wake up in the morning and Donald Trump is president.”

[Typical Lax Dad]

Makes us all feel proud! Thanks for sharing. MAGA!!

[DocBarrister]

Military tensions with Iran are escalating quickly ... a predicted and predictable consequence of Trump’s reneging on the nuclear program agreement with Iran. His unjustified withdrawal from the agreement gave greater leverage to the ultra-conservative factions in Iran, like the Revolutionary Guards. Since the U.S. withdrawal from the agreement, Iran has stepped up its proxy wars all over the world, including in Iraq.

Because of Trump’s stupidity and ignorance, military hawks in both Iran and the United States have been empowered. If saner minds do not prevail, we could be facing a markedly expanded military confrontation with Iran.

The United States just killed a top Iranian military leader. You can bet that Iran will retaliate against our troops and diplomats.

The stupidity of Trump and his enablers has just exponentially increased the risk faced by American personnel in Iraq.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/na ... story.html

DocBarrister

[old salt]

.. Soleimani was the IRGC's HMFIC. Game on.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/na ... story.html

BREAKING: Pentagon launched airstrike that killed Iranian commander Qasem Soleimani, Defense Sec. Mark Esper says.

Esper said Thursday night that Soleimani was "actively developing plans" to attack US troops and diplomats.The killing of a senior figure linked to Tehran’s support for foreign proxy groups is certain to heighten tensions between the United States and Iran. This breaking story will be updated.

An airstrike near the Baghdad airport has killed Iranian Quds Force commander Qasem Soleimani and another senior Iranian-linked figure in Baghdad, Iraqi state television reported Thursday.

...the death of Iran’s most revered military leader appeared likely to send tensions soaring between the United States and Iran.

Earlier Thursday, Defense Secretary Mark T. Esper said Iran and its proxies may be preparing renewed strikes on U.S. personnel in Iraq, even as the Trump administration increases the number of troops in the region.

“There are some indications out there that they may be planning additional attacks,” Esper said at the Pentagon, a day after members of an Iranian-linked militia, Kataib Hezbollah, withdrew from the area around the U.S. Embassy in Baghdad following their assault on the diplomatic facility.

“So do I think they may do something?” he said. “Yes, and they will likely regret it.”

The attempted siege — in which militiamen threw molotov cocktails, stormed into a reception area and then established a camp outside the sprawling American compound — marked the most intense flare-up in U.S.-Iran tensions in Iraq since the end of the Iraq War in 2011.

The incident has strained relations with the Baghdad government, which has sought to maintain stable ties with both its chief Western backer, the United States, and its powerful neighbor, Iran, and the violence posed a new test of the Trump administration’s hawkish policy against Tehran.

After the airstrike that Iraqi state TV said killed Soleimani, there were reports of gunfire erupting near the airport at the time of the strike, and the Iraqi army command said three ­Katyusha rockets, which typically are fired by Iranian-backed militias, exploded nearby.

Kataib Hezbollah’s targeting of the embassy followed U.S. strikes over the weekend on militia facilities in Iraq and Syria. Officials said they came in response to repeated rocket and artillery attacks on U.S. facilities, including one recent incident that killed an American contractor in Iraq. At least 25 militia members were killed in the retaliatory strikes.

Another leader of the Baghdad protests was a guest in the Obama WH.
https://www.nationalreview.com/news/oba ... ite-house/

[Typical Lax Dad]

Military tensions with Iran are escalating quickly ... a predicted and predictable consequence of Trump’s reneging on the nuclear program agreement with Iran. His unjustified withdrawal from the agreement gave greater leverage to the ultra-conservative factions in Iran, like the Revolutionary Guards. Since the U.S. withdrawal from the agreement, Iran has stepped up its proxy wars all over the world, including in Iraq.

Because of Trump’s stupidity and ignorance, military hawks in both Iran and the United States have been empowered. If saner minds do not prevail, we could be facing a markedly expanded military confrontation with Iran.

The United States just killed a top Iranian military leader. You can bet that Iran will retaliate against our troops and diplomats.

The stupidity of Trump and his enablers has just exponentially increased the risk faced by American personnel in Iraq.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/na ... story.html

DocBarrister

He was duly elected.

[Typical Lax Dad]

.. Solemani was the IRGC's HMFIC. Game on.

Another leader of the Baghdad protests was a guest in the Obama WH.
https://www.nationalreview.com/news/oba ... ite-house/

He was duly elected...it’s not illegal

[old salt]

.. Soleimani was the IRGC's HMFIC. Game on.

Another leader of the Baghdad protests was a guest in the Obama WH.
https://www.nationalreview.com/news/oba ... ite-house/

He was duly elected...it’s not illegal

This is a Huge deal. (not unlike the downing of Yamamoto's aircraft).
Soleimani is responsible for killing & maiming hundreds, maybe thousands, of US troops.
I wondered if he was in Iran or Iraq & if we'd try to target him.
I didn't think we'd aim this high, or that he'd expose himself.
That's some remarkable intel & targeting.
Thanks for your usual stupid trolling, you add so much to the discussion.

[Typical Lax Dad]

.. Soleimani was the IRGC's HMFIC. Game on.

Another leader of the Baghdad protests was a guest in the Obama WH.
https://www.nationalreview.com/news/oba ... ite-house/

He was duly elected...it’s not illegal

This is a Huge deal. (not unlike the downing of Yamamoto's aircraft).
Soleimani is responsible for killing & maiming hundreds, maybe thousands, of US troops.
I wondered if he was in Iran or Iraq & if we'd try to target him.
I didn't think we'd aim this high, or that he'd expose himself.
That's some remarkable intel & targeting.
Thanks for your usual stupid trolling, you add so much to the discussion.

He won’t be killing anyone else. So he has that going for him.

[old salt]

Now we know why Pompeo cx'd his trip to Ukraine.

https://www.militarytimes.com/news/your ... le-killed/

Also killed in the strike was a top Iraqi leader, Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis, the deputy commander of the Popular Mobilization Forces, which is known as the PMF and is part of a larger umbrella group that includes a number of Shia militant groups supported by Iran..

An Iraqi official, speaking on condition of anonymity, told the Associated Press that al-Muhandis had arrived to the airport in a convoy to receive Soleimani whose plane had arrived from either Lebanon or Syria. The airstrike occurred as soon as he descended from the plane to be greeted by al-Muhandis and his companions, killing them all.

The DoD said Soleimani was “actively developing plans to attack American diplomats and service members in Iraq and throughout the region. General Soleimani and his Quds Force were responsible for the deaths of hundreds of American and coalition service members and the wounding of thousands more.”

The Pentagon also said Soleimani orchestrated the Dec. 27 rocket attack on the Kirkuk military installation that resulted in the death of an American contractor and wounded four American troops.

[DocBarrister]

.. Soleimani was the IRGC's HMFIC. Game on.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/na ... story.html

BREAKING: Pentagon launched airstrike that killed Iranian commander Qasem Soleimani, Defense Sec. Mark Esper says.

Esper said Thursday night that Soleimani was "actively developing plans" to attack US troops and diplomats.The killing of a senior figure linked to Tehran’s support for foreign proxy groups is certain to heighten tensions between the United States and Iran. This breaking story will be updated.

An airstrike near the Baghdad airport has killed Iranian Quds Force commander Qasem Soleimani and another senior Iranian-linked figure in Baghdad, Iraqi state television reported Thursday.

...the death of Iran’s most revered military leader appeared likely to send tensions soaring between the United States and Iran.

Earlier Thursday, Defense Secretary Mark T. Esper said Iran and its proxies may be preparing renewed strikes on U.S. personnel in Iraq, even as the Trump administration increases the number of troops in the region.

“There are some indications out there that they may be planning additional attacks,” Esper said at the Pentagon, a day after members of an Iranian-linked militia, Kataib Hezbollah, withdrew from the area around the U.S. Embassy in Baghdad following their assault on the diplomatic facility.

“So do I think they may do something?” he said. “Yes, and they will likely regret it.”

The attempted siege — in which militiamen threw molotov cocktails, stormed into a reception area and then established a camp outside the sprawling American compound — marked the most intense flare-up in U.S.-Iran tensions in Iraq since the end of the Iraq War in 2011.

The incident has strained relations with the Baghdad government, which has sought to maintain stable ties with both its chief Western backer, the United States, and its powerful neighbor, Iran, and the violence posed a new test of the Trump administration’s hawkish policy against Tehran.

After the airstrike that Iraqi state TV said killed Soleimani, there were reports of gunfire erupting near the airport at the time of the strike, and the Iraqi army command said three ­Katyusha rockets, which typically are fired by Iranian-backed militias, exploded nearby.

Kataib Hezbollah’s targeting of the embassy followed U.S. strikes over the weekend on militia facilities in Iraq and Syria. Officials said they came in response to repeated rocket and artillery attacks on U.S. facilities, including one recent incident that killed an American contractor in Iraq. At least 25 militia members were killed in the retaliatory strikes.

Another leader of the Baghdad protests was a guest in the Obama WH.
https://www.nationalreview.com/news/oba ... ite-house/

This is no game. For all practical purposes, Trump just assassinated the second most powerful leader of Iran ... someone that even the Ayatollah feared.

Soleimani was a murderous monster, but he was and is a revered figure in Iran. Even Israel was not willing to risk killing him. Iran will avenge his death (they have no choice), and heaven forbid ... that could mean the deaths of American civilians and military personnel.

Is anyone here stupid and dishonest enough to claim that Trump and the hawks in his administration have thoroughly thought through this action? And what was that idiocy about Trump doing a favor by withdrawing U.S. troops? Trump just put a huge bullseye on all American military and diplomatic personnel around the world. And don’t think American soil will be safe from Iranian terrorist attacks.

DocBarrister

[jhu72]

.. Soleimani was the IRGC's HMFIC. Game on.

Another leader of the Baghdad protests was a guest in the Obama WH.
https://www.nationalreview.com/news/oba ... ite-house/

He was duly elected...it’s not illegal

This is a Huge deal. (not unlike the downing of Yamamoto's aircraft).
Soleimani is responsible for killing & maiming hundreds, maybe thousands, of US troops.
I wondered if he was in Iran or Iraq & if we'd try to target him.
I didn't think we'd aim this high, or that he'd expose himself.
That's some remarkable intel & targeting.
Thanks for your usual stupid trolling, you add so much to the discussion.

Gives you a boner I bet. Will see if you keep you boner when a ton of American servicemen die in retaliation. You got the war you've been aching for.

[DocBarrister]

.. Soleimani was the IRGC's HMFIC. Game on.

Another leader of the Baghdad protests was a guest in the Obama WH.
https://www.nationalreview.com/news/oba ... ite-house/

He was duly elected...it’s not illegal

This is a Huge deal. (not unlike the downing of Yamamoto's aircraft).
Soleimani is responsible for killing & maiming hundreds, maybe thousands, of US troops.
I wondered if he was in Iran or Iraq & if we'd try to target him.
I didn't think we'd aim this high, or that he'd expose himself.
That's some remarkable intel & targeting.
Thanks for your usual stupid trolling, you add so much to the discussion.

Gives you a boner I bet. Will see if you keep you boner when a ton of American servicemen die in retaliation. You got the war you've been aching for.

What is truly disgusting is that so many of Trump’s avid supporters here are old ... and it will be the young who die when (not if) Iran exacts its revenge.

DocBarrister

[Typical Lax Dad]

Some Fun!

[a fan]

This is a Huge deal. (not unlike the downing of Yamamoto's aircraft).

Act of war, that will be viewed as an assassination. Why not just poison his Fruit Loops, or do it like Putin does so you can play dumb? "Assassination? What assassination?"

So much for outsmarting our enemies.

Well, Republican voters get what they want, as usual. Violence, war, and talking tough fixes everything, right?

Oh well. This is your path. Hope the consequences don't suck. Pick a fight, get a fight. Smart.

[DocBarrister]

This is a Huge deal. (not unlike the downing of Yamamoto's aircraft).

Act of war, that will be viewed as an assassination. Why not just poison his Fruit Loops, or do it like Putin does so you can play dumb? "Assassination? What assassination?"

So much for outsmarting our enemies.

Well, Republican voters get what they want, as usual. Violence, war, and talking tough fixes everything, right?

Oh well. This is your path. Hope the consequences don't suck. Pick a fight, get a fight. Smart.

And we just helped the tyrants in Iran. There won’t be any more protests against the theocratic dictatorship. This will unify Iranians against the United States. A real gift to the Ayatollahs.

This is also some holiday gift to families of U.S. military and diplomatic personnel. More troops will be headed to Iraq and other Mideast regions, and more American military and diplomatic families will be worried about the safety of their loved ones overseas.

Trump and the Republicans who support him are reckless and incompetent.

DocBarrister