Navy SEAL chief Edward Gallagher (pictured in 2018) is scheduled to go on trial on June 10 for alleged war crimes
Three men on the defense team for a Navy SEAL chief accused of war crimes have close ties to President Donald Trump.
Reports have surfaced over the last few days that Trump plans to pardon Edward 'Eddie' Gallagher as well as others on Memorial Day.
Gallagher is accused of murdering a captive and shooting two unarmed civilians, a violation of military law, while on deployment in Mosul, Iraq, in 2017.
Now it's revealed that Marc Mukasey, an attorney for the Trump Organization, and Bernard Kerik have joined Gallagher's legal defense team, reported Task and Purpose.
Mukaskey recently appeared in court in an attempt to prevent Deutsche Bank and Capital One from turning over Trump's financial records to members of the Houses of Representatives. The move was blocked by a judge.
And Kerik is the former business associate of Trump's attorney and former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani.
But that's not the only connection. Gallagher's lead defense attorney, Tim Parlatore, is the former lawyer of Fox News morning host Pete Hegseth.
Hegseth has been meeting privately with Trump in an effort to persuade him to pardon several military members accused of war crimes, including Gallagher, according to the Daily Beast.
The news outlet reported that Hegseth allegedly told Trump that it was 'very unfair', in reference to how Gallagher has been treated.
