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"The guy was toxic," special operator first class Joshua Vriens added. "The guy is freaking evil," special operator first class Craig Miller, one of the most experienced members of Alpha Platoon's SEAL Team 7, told the Naval Criminal Investigative Service (NCIS).Īnother platoon member, identified by the Times as special operator first class Corey Scott, said: "You could tell he was perfectly okay with killing anybody that was moving." In sometimes emotional interviews, they describe how their chief seemed to love killing, how he targeted women and children and boasted that "burqas were flying."

The footage shows members of Gallagher's SEAL Team 7 Alpha Platoon speaking to agents from the Naval Criminal Investigative Service about his conduct in Iraq. Read more: Germans think Trump is more dangerous than Kim Jong Un and Putin Trump intervened, against the Pentagon's advice that he could damage the integrity of the military judicial system and demanded that Gallagher's rank be restored. Gallagher was acquitted in July by a military jury of all but one charge of posing for a picture with a human casualty. The now 40-year-old was accused of allegedly stabbing to death a captured, wounded 17-year-old "Islamic State" (IS) fighter in Iraq in May 2017. The comments were made in video footage shared with war crimes prosecutors, who investigated charges of premeditated murder by Eddie Gallagher. A Navy SEAL platoon leader who was tried for war crimes and later pardoned by US President Donald Trump was described as "toxic" and "freaking evil" by veterans who served with him in Iraq, the New York Times has reported.