Rep. Duncan Hunter (R-Calif.) has likened his own behavior in the U.S. Marines to that of a Navy SEAL facing trial for war crimes in an apparent attempt to downplay the seriousness of the charges. “Eddie did one bad thing that I’m guilty of too: taking a picture of the body and saying something stupid,” Hunter told his audience. Andrea Gallagher via AP Special Warfare Operator Chief Edward “Eddie” Gallagher is accused of fatally stabbing an ISIS captive and intentionally gunning down unarmed civilians. Gallagher is set to go on trial in June for murder charges, one of them being for allegedly stabbing an Islamic State prisoner to death in 2017. He allegedly bragged about racking up civilian kills and threatened to kill members of his SEAL team if they reported him.

Source: Huffington Post May 27, 2019 19:18 UTC