TELETRADER News

Trump calls Manning ‘ungrateful traitor’

EPA / Chip Somodevilla

Chelsea Manning is “an ungrateful traitor” and her sentence shouldn’t have been commuted, United States President Donald Trump said on Thursday.

He added that, despite the fact that former President Barack Obama secured the former soldier’s release, Manning is now calling Obama “a weak leader.” Trump added that the situation was “terrible.”

Manning criticized Obama in a column in The Guardian yesterday, saying he had few “permanent accomplishments” at the end of his presidency.

Obama commuted Manning’s sentence as one of his last acts in office and the intelligence leaker is set to be released from prison in May.

Breaking the News / VP