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Trump Calls Bergdahl Decision 'Disgrace' on Twitter


U.S. Army Sergeant Bowe Bergdahl (R) arrives at the courthouse for the eighth day of sentencing proceedings in his court martial at Fort Bragg, North Carolina, Nov. 3, 2017.
U.S. Army Sergeant Bowe Bergdahl (R) arrives at the courthouse for the eighth day of sentencing proceedings in his court martial at Fort Bragg, North Carolina, Nov. 3, 2017.

U.S. President Donald Trump condemned a military judge's order on Friday to spare Army Sergeant Bowe Bergdahl from prison after he pleaded guilty todeserting his post in Afghanistan in 2009.

"The decision on Sergeant Bergdahl is a complete and total disgrace to our Country and to our Military," Trump wrote in a post on Twitter.


The judge also ordered Bergdahl, who was captured by the Taliban, to be dishonorably discharged and recommended that he be demoted.

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