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A Navy SEAL accused of war crimes will be transferred to a “less restrictive” prison until his trial, President Trump said Saturday.

“In honor of his past service to our Country, Navy Seal #EddieGallagher will soon be moved to less restrictive confinement while he awaits his day in court,” Trump tweeted. “Process should move quickly!”

Gallagher has been held in the Navy’s high-security brig in San Diego since September on an array of charges, including stabbing a wounded prisoner of war to death and shooting at civilians unprovoked, while on one of his eight deployments to Iraq and Afghanistan.

Republican lawmakers have been pressing the Navy to free Gallagher ahead of his June trial date.

“He risked his life serving abroad to protect the rights of all of us here at home,” Rep. Ralph Norman (R-South Carolina) said Thursday.

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