Episode 82 - Clint Lorance is a Murderer

Lions Led By Donkeys Podcast

Lions Led By Donkeys

Comedy

4.6 • 1.8K Ratings

🗓️ 9 December 2019

⏱️ 81 minutes

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Clint Lorance killed two unarmed Afghan civilians in 2012. Clint Lorance is a free man. He walked out of the United States Army Disciplinary Barracks at Leavenworth at the order the President Donald J Trump on November 15, 2019. This is the story of the war crime he committed. Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/notifications Buy some merch: https://teespring.com/stores/lions-led-by-donkeys-store Sources: https://taskandpurpose.com/think-lt-clint-lorance-murderer https://www.armytimes.com/news/your-army/2019/07/01/army-officer-convicted-of-murder-in-afghanistan-to-get-another-look-by-civilian-court/ https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/policy/defense-national-security/without-a-doubt-in-my-mind-soldier-who-testified-against-clint-lorance-thinks-hes-guilty-despite-trump-pardon https://www.nytimes.com/2015/02/25/us/jailed-ex-army-officer-has-support-but-not-from-his-platoon.html

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0:00.0	This morning we are hearing from the American soldier now home in North Texas after the president pardoned his prison sentence.
0:07.0	Some 250 people gathered in the Hunt County town of Merritt last night to show their support for Army First
0:17.7	Lieutenant Clint Lawrence.
0:19.6	He arrived in the back of a pickup truck and spoke to the crowd from a stage draped in red, white, and blue.
0:25.0	In 2013, Lawrence was convicted of second-degree murder for ordering his men to fire upon Afghan civilians.
0:32.0	After serving six years of a 19-year prison sentence, he was
0:35.9	granted full clemency by President Donald Trump on Friday. Last night in front of
0:41.1	family and friends, he thanked the president and the people who never gave up on him.
0:45.0	Lieutenant Lawrence says there were only a dozen days in those six years that he did not receive a letter of support from someone.
0:53.7	Along with Lawrence, the President also pardoned another soldier
0:57.7	and restored a Navy SEALs rank.
0:59.8	Pentagon officials had advised against those pardons
1:02.2	saying it could
1:02.9	potentially damage the military's judicial system.
1:05.8	Hello and welcome to yet another episode of the lines led by Donkeys
1:11.1	podcast or the War Crimes Cast,
1:14.1	because that's all I ever get to talk about anymore.
1:16.2	I'm Joe, and with me today is everybody.
1:19.4	I'm Joe, I fucked it up.
1:21.6	Hold on, let me see if I can get this. Your name is Nick. let me see if I can get this.
1:23.0	Your name is Nick.
1:24.0	Let me see if I can get this right.
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