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Donald Trump says Bowe Bergdahl should have been executed
By KIMBERLY PIERCEALL and JILL COLVIN

LAS VEGAS (AP) — Republican presidential front-runner Donald Trump said Thursday that Army Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl should have been executed for leaving his post in Afghanistan.

"We're tired of Sgt. Bergdahl, who's a traitor, a no-good traitor, who should have been executed," Trump said to cheers at a rowdy rally inside a packed Las Vegas theater at the casino-hotel Treasure Island.

"Thirty years ago," Trump added, "he would have been shot."

It was practically an aside in a litany of complaints at the end of a more than hourlong, free-wheeling speech that included a large dose of media bashing and a claim that he was behind Rep. Kevin McCarthy's decision to drop out of the race for House speaker.

Bergdahl was charged in March with desertion and misbehavior before the enemy. The Army conducted a hearing on his case earlier this month. His attorney, Eugene Fidell, said in a statement that Trump "has become a broken record on this subject."

"If he took the time to study what actually emerged at the preliminary hearing he would be singing a different tune," Fidell said.

Trump has, in the past, pantomimed a firing squad, Fidell said.

Bergdahl has been accused of leaving his post in southeastern Afghanistan in June 2009. He was held prisoner by the Taliban for five years, then exchanged for five Taliban commanders being held by the U.S. Trump has long railed against the deal.

The speech was punctuated by shouts of support from the crowd that filled about 1,620 seats in the Las Vegas Strip casino theater normally reserved for acrobatic Cirque du Soleil productions.

At one point, in a moment that appeared to be impromptu, Trump brought a supporter in the audience to the stage who declared she is Hispanic and voting for Trump. Myriam Witcher, 35, of Las Vegas, waved an issue of People magazine with Trump and his family on the cover, asking Trump to sign it.

Afterward, the Columbian immigrant, who noted she came to the United States legally, called Trump her "No. 1 person in the United States."

His speech spanned a spider-web of topics that included his disdain for media coverage, many of his fellow Republican presidential candidates and current political leadership as well as Thursday's news that McCarthy had dropped out of a race for House speaker.

"You know, Kevin McCarthy is out. You know that, right?" he asked the crowd. "And they're giving me a lot of credit for that because I said you really need somebody very, very tough and very smart. ... We need smart, we need tough, we need the whole package."

Trump didn't identify who had given him credit for McCarthy dropping out.
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Colvin reported from Newark, New Jersey.

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-- (c) Associated Press 2015-10-09

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I think giving Bowe Bergdahl a dishonorable discharge would suffice, although executing him wouldn't have been a bad idea. Obama should be impeached for entertaining Bowe's parents at the White House, like this guy was some sort of war hero. This is just another example of how inept Obama is.

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"Thirty years ago," Trump added, "he would have been shot."

30 years ago Donald -he would have been alongside you, dodging the call up--- http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/photos-show-trump-military-garb-dodging-draft-article-1.2298248

Donald Trump — once a smiling teenage cadet at a military academy — dodged the Vietnam War with student deferments and a boo-boo on his foot, records show. Trump, a gifted athlete and decorated cadet at New York Military Academy in upstate Cornwall in the 1960s, sidestepped the draft with four deferments and a medical disqualification for bone spurs in his foot.

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Just shows what a blowhard Trump is, he doesn't even know history or maybe he just can't count

Edward Donald "Eddie" Slovik (February 18, 1920 – January 31, 1945) was a United States Army soldier during World War II and the only American soldier to be court-martialled and executed for desertion since the American Civil War

source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eddie_Slovik

Let me do the Math for you Mr. Trump, 2015 minus 1945 equals 70 years, so I guess you were either only half right or half wrong and I'll give you the extra 5 years because you were educated at a private elite school, Kew-Forest School in Forest Hills, Queens but then your father decided that The New York Military Academy was a better fit. So you now claim that your received more training militarily than a lot of the guys that go into the military.* With your great grasp of math, I sure am glad that you got a draft deferment and were not assigned as artillery spotter in Viet Nam

* source:http://www.nytimes.com/2015/09/09/us/politics/donald-trump-likens-his-schooling-to-military-service-in-book.html

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How in hell can this guy possibly be America's republican front-runner. What a sad state America has come to.

He's making statements about a solider who left his post and yet this A-hole has never been in the military and he even thinks the military school he went too gives him equal standing to criticize a solider in a war zone. What a complete loser.

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"Thirty years ago," Trump added, "he would have been shot."

30 years ago Donald -he would have been alongside you, dodging the call up--- http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/photos-show-trump-military-garb-dodging-draft-article-1.2298248

Donald Trump — once a smiling teenage cadet at a military academy — dodged the Vietnam War with student deferments and a boo-boo on his foot, records show. Trump, a gifted athlete and decorated cadet at New York Military Academy in upstate Cornwall in the 1960s, sidestepped the draft with four deferments and a medical disqualification for bone spurs in his foot.

Hey, that sounds like what I did.

Four student deferments and then a sham medical.

Dodging the draft was a national sport in those days.

Anybody who had a brain could see that the war was a bloody disaster.

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And this is coming from the class clown who used multiple student deferments to avoid the draft, as he was scared to death to fight in Vietnam. He was essentially a draft dodger. And a chicken hearted punk. He cannot and should not comment on anything concerning the military. And I think it should be mandatory, that all future presidents not only have experience on the front lines, but also make a pledge that they will offer at least one of their children, for military service, if they decide to declare war. Does it mean enough to you, to sacrifice one of your offspring?

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Why hasn't Congress charged Obama with treason? Traded Taliban terrorists for a deserter. Six soldiers killed. What are they waiting for?

Why hasn't congress charged Bush with Treason for lying to the American public and starting an illegal war for oil just to benefit Chaney and Haliburton??

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