https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-50483608#_=_
Edward Gallagher was accused of stabbing an unarmed 17-year-old Islamic State group prisoner to death and randomly shooting Iraqi civilians.
He was acquitted of those charges and convicted only of the lesser charge of posing with the IS prisoner's corpse.
Mr Trump cleared him of wrongdoing, against advice from defence officials.
In doing so the president reversed a single-rank demotion handed to Chief Petty Officer Gallagher for posing with the corpse, bringing to a close one of the most high-profile war crimes cases in the US Navy's history.
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