Geraldo: ‘I Am Inclined’ to Show Mercy to Bowe Bergdahl But ‘I Have to Yield’ to Veterans and Soldiers on It

RUSH EXCERPT:

GERALDO: "Well, you know, I feel two things, Kevin. First of all, I spent an awful lot of time in Afghanistan between 2001 and 2012. The G.I.S live under rigorous, dangerous, perilous concerns. I can see so many of my friends who have come back, and they have PTSD or other, you know, mental illnesses as a result of the trauma they’ve endured. I am inclined to mercy to Bergdahl. But every single G.I. I speak to — and to this I yield to major hegseth. What every one of them to a man or woman is outraged by the leniency shown by the military judge. So when I’m inclined to say, okay, he’s got ptsz, schizophrenia, all these other mental issues, he was a prisoner of the Taliban for years, cut him some slack, I have to yield to Pete and the other veterans who say, wait a second, he left his post during combat, he’s a traitor, he’s a lowdown and dirty scum who endangered his mates in combat there, and he should have gotten jail time, and he did not."