Before deployment, Navy SEAL Eddie Gallagher commissioned a friend to make him a custom hunting knife and a hatchet, vowing in a text, “I’ll try and dig that knife or hatchet on someone’s skull!” nytimes.com/2019/11/30/us/… 
Chief Gallagher also sent a text to the SEAL master chief making assignments, saying he was “down to go” to any spot, no matter how awful. “We don’t care about living conditions. We just want to kill as many people as possible.” nytimes.com/2019/11/30/us/…
"Amped up or zoned out": The Navy SEAL that Trump championed was also using drugs and shooting civilians during his Iraq deployment. nytimes.com/2019/11/30/us/…
"One SEAL sniper told investigators he heard a shot from Chief Gallagher’s position, then saw a schoolgirl in a flower-print hijab crumple to the ground.” nytimes.com/2019/11/30/us/…
Bernie Kerik, who served three-plus years in prison for tax fraud, put together the legal team that won acquittal of first-degree murder charge when Eddie Gallagher faced war-crimes trial. nytimes.com/2019/07/02/us/…
In the #EddieGallagher case, "Mr. Hegseth found a ready ally in Mr. Trump, a graduate of a military high school who avoided serving in Vietnam by citing bone spurs in his foot.” nytimes.com/2019/11/30/us/…
