Don Lemon: Shouldn’t Soldiers Wait for Facts to Come Out Before Slamming Bergdahl?

Don Lemon kicked off CNN Tonight on Wednesday with a piece of commentary about Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl‘s fellow soldiers appearing in the media to call him a deserter and the like. And what Lemon wanted to know was why these soldiers are speaking out so harshly against Bergdahl before there’s any “official evidence” released to the public about what he did.

Lemon spoke of the bond soldiers normally have after they return home, “brothers in arms,” and “how the greatest generation conducted themselves.” And of the soldiers criticizing Bergdahl, he said, “They have every right to speak out. They fought for it. And maybe they’re right. But the official evidence doesn’t show that just yet.”

He invoked the greatest generation again and wondered “what they’d think of criticizing a fellow soldier before he had time to explain himself, before the official evidence was even in.”

Watch the video below, via CNN:

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