Listen to ‘The Daily’: Bowe Bergdahl Pleads Guilty

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As a candidate for president, Donald J. Trump called Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl a “dirty rotten traitor” for walking off his base in Afghanistan in 2009. For punishment, he suggested sending the sergeant back and dumping him from an airplane.

On Monday, with Mr. Trump now commander in chief, Sergeant Bergdahl pleaded guilty to desertion and to endangering the American troops sent to search for him. An Army judge will determine his punishment.

On today’s episode:

• Matthew Rosenberg, who writes about intelligence and national security for The New York Times.

• Richard A. Oppel Jr., a Times correspondent who has been covering Sergeant Bergdahl’s trial at Fort Bragg, N.C.

Background reading:

• In a military courtroom, Sergeant Bergdahl stood before an Army judge and described his actions as inexcusable.

• The judge said that Mr. Trump’s statements on the campaign trail had not prejudiced the Army’s case against the sergeant.

• Sergeant Bergdahl talked publicly about his experiences in Afghanistan in the second season of the podcast “Serial.”

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