White House Reviewing Case of Green Beret Accused of Murder, Trump Says

U.S. soldiers with the 3rd Armored Cavalry Regiment patrol a new ditch they have dug to protect the base from attack in Iskandariya, Babil Province, Iraq on July 19, 2011. Spencer Platt/Getty Images

The White House is currently reviewing the case of a former U.S. Army Green Beret who is accused of murdering an alleged terrorist bomb-maker during a deployment in Afghanistan in 2010, President Donald Trump announced.

“The case of Major Mathew Golsteyn is now under review at the White House,” Trump said in an Oct. 12 Twitter post. “Mathew is a highly decorated Green Beret who is being tried for killing a Taliban bombmaker. We train our boys to be killing machines, then prosecute them when they kill!”