He was sentenced to 19 years for war crimes — after his pardon, now he's fueling Trump's 'deep state' conspiracy about the US military
It's been nearly a month since Clint Lorance, the 35-year-old former US Army first lieutenant who was convicted of war crimes and later pardoned by President Donald Trump, emerged from military prison at Ft. Leavenworth in Kansas to the greetings of his family.
After his release, Lorance is trying to settle into life in Texas as the controversy over his pardon lingers. He says he's currently unemployed and is receiving help from United American Patriots, a non-profit that provides legal assistance to service members found guilty of war crimes. He also went on stage at a Trump fundraiser in Florida on Dec. 7.
Lorance and his supporters have made several assertions in his defense, including the claim that intelligence reports at the time suggested inbound motorcyclists posed an imminent threat to nearby US and Afghan forces. "The tragedy of pardoning Lorance isn't that he will be released from prison — I've found room for compassion there," former US Army Capt. Patrick Swanson, Lorance's company commander in Afghanistan, told The New York Times."The tragedy is that people will hail him as a hero, and he is not a hero. He ordered those murders. He lied about them.
"Now, he's elevating these people and making them cult personalities on the right," Goodwin told Insider."He's almost incentivizing this type of behavior when he's pardoning these folks and elevate them, and bring them up in front of people who are expected to cheer."Critics of Trump's pardons, including his own military advisers, soon found themselves being targeted by the president's ire.
"Is there a deep state within the military? I don't even know what that means," the Republican added."I mean, the military is the world's largest bureaucracy, so yeah, there are bureaucrats in the military, some of whom are stealing oxygen. But I think most people who work for [the Defense Department], particularly those in uniform, are patriots. They're doing it not because they want to get rich, but because ... they want to serve their country."Democratic Rep.
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