Except that his record of pardoning psychopathic war criminals is unparalleled in US history.
US President Donald Trump issued full pardons to two soldiers and restored the rank of a third, each of whom have been accused or convicted of war crimes.
The orders appear to have been made despite opposition from within the Pentagon leadership, which was concerned about the negative image of the US military this action would promote domestically and abroad.
The pardoning of two war criminals and promotion of another, which follows Trump’s full pardoning of US Army First Lieutenant Michael Behenna last May, is unprecedented in American history.
It is important to note that under the principles elaborated at the Nuremberg trials in the aftermath of World War II and the Holocaust, pardoning of war crimes is itself a war crime. https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2019/11/16/pard-n16.html
