News just broke Army Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl will plead guilty to desertion and misbehavior before the enemy.

FOX NEWS: Bowe Bergdahl expected to plead guilty to desertion and misbehavior before the enemy pic.twitter.com/vlFF6qrCY3 — Joshua Dov Caplan (@joshdcaplan) October 6, 2017

AP reports:

Army Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl is expected to plead guilty soon to desertion and misbehavior before the enemy rather than face trial for leaving his Afghanistan post. That’s according to two individuals with knowledge of the case. TRENDING: Crowd Begins Chanting "Fill The Seat" at Trump Rally in North Carolina - President Trump Announces He Will Name Nominee this Week - A WOMAN They tell The Associated Press that Bergdahl will submit the plea later this month and sentencing will start Oct. 23. The individuals weren’t authorized to discuss the case and demanded anonymity. The 31-year-old Bergdahl could face up to five years in prison on the desertion charge and a life sentence for misbehavior. Bergdahl left his Afghanistan post in 2009 and was held captive by the Taliban for about five years. He was released in 2014 in a prisoner swap for five Taliban detainees, sparking an emotional debate about negotiating with hostage takers.

As TGP reported last year, Bergdahl wanted Obama to pardon him.

Many of the men who served with Bowe Bergdahl have described him as a deserter but that didn’t stop Obama from trading multiple foreign terrorists for him a few years ago.

Now Bergdahl wants Obama to give him a pardon. Anyone surprised?

The Hill reports:

Bergdahl asks Obama for pardon Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl, who was held captive for five years and freed in an exchange for five Taliban prisoners, has asked President Obama to pardon him before leaving the White House. A source told Fox News that Bergdahl wrote a letter to Obama thanking him for rescuing him in 2014 and trading him for the Guantanamo Bay detainees. White House and Justice Department officials also told the New York Times that Bergdahl submitted several copies of a clemency application that were sent to the Pentagon, the Justice Department and the White House immediately after the election. The pardon would avert Bergdahl’s court-martial trial, which is slated to begin in April. He faces charges of desertion and misbehavior before the enemy, endangering fellow soldiers. President-elect Donald Trump was highly critical of Bergdahl on the campaign trail, calling him a “dirty, rotten traitor” who “should have been executed.”

Here is then-candidate Trump railing against “traitor” Bergdahl.