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Trump, McConnell Reaffirmed Alliance of Necessity

April Ryan, left, the Washington bureau chief for American Urban Radio Networks gestures as she asks questions to President Donald Trump and Senate Majority
Leader Mitch McConnell of Ky., in the Rose Garden of the White House, Monday, Oct. 16, 2017. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)
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Army Sgt. Bergdahl Pleads Guilty to Deserting His Post

By JONATHAN DREW comrades — charges that could guilty plea brings the highly politi- cized Obama, and Donald Trump
Associated Press put him behind bars for the rest of cized saga closer to an end eight went further while campaigning
FORT BRAGG, N.C. (AP) — Army his life. “I understand that leaving years after Bergdahl vanished. for president, repeatedly calling
Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl, who was was against the law,” said Berg- President Barack Obama brought Bergdahl a “dirty, rotten traitor”
captured and held by the Tal- dahl, who admitted guilt without him home in 2014 in a swap for five who deserved to be executed
iban for five years after walking striking a deal with prosecutors, Taliban prisoners at Guantanamo by firing squad or thrown out of a
away from his post in Afghani- meaning his punishment will be Bay, saying the U.S. does not leave plane without a parachute.
stan, pleaded guilty Monday to up to a military judge when he is its service members on the battle-
desertion and endangering his sentenced later this month. The field. Republicans roundly criti- Continued on Page 5